Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

SELFA 

Amalgamated with Charity Number 1124020 31.03.17. SELFA supports children and families experiencing vulnerabilities, to build resilience, thrive and achieve through wellbeing programmes; peer support groups; targeted holiday workshops; trips and residential breaks. Service users live or go to school in North Yorkshire and are referred by a professional working with them or their family.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 7 years

www.selfa.org.uk

admin@selfa.org.uk

01756533110

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£488£456£33n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/22£363£328£35n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£365£200£165n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/20£261£219£42n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£207£240£-34n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£302£208£94£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 40 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • North Yorkshire,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
BBC Children in Need£87,381
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Rank Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Masonic Trust£16,900
Leeds Community Foundation£14,975
Two Ridings Community Foundation£14,100
Sport England£10,918
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - SELFA Active
£6,630 21/07/2023
This project will deliver 35 sessions over the course of 12 months and one session each week during the school holidays. Sessions will be for children of primary-school age at a local school. Funding ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Volunteer Co-ordinator - SELFA Community Fridge
£7,100 08/11/2022
Funding will be used to continue to develop the Community Fridge project - supporting families accessing fresh food and reducing food waste. The funding will help upskill volunteers and deliver food ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - SELFA Smile
£10,000 23/09/2022
The funding will be used to deliver an intergenerational project bringing children and older people together for a range of activities including baking arts and crafts and trips out. The project ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - SELFA Sports Leaders
£14,975 16/09/2022
Grant to SELFA
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Plant to Plate
£5,000 30/06/2022
Funding for staff, volunteers, garden equipment to develop a plant to plate project where children from disadvantaged backgrounds will learn to grow and cook their own food.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 28/06/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to SELFA
£2,800 06/05/2022
purchase of fridge and freezer for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in North Yorkshire
Rank Foundation - GOLDEN AWARDS SELFA 2022
£20,000 23/03/2022
The Golden Award was given to Selfa to enable young people with disabilities to take part in an outdoors project.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 18/03/2022
SELFA Core Costs
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,900 13/07/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 26/03/2021
SELFA Core Costs
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SELFA
£84,381 17/12/2020
This project will deliver fun and engaging holiday activities for vulnerable, disadvantaged and disabled children and young people. It will lead to an increased sense of belonging, improved positive ....more
Sport England - Toyota Parasport Fund
£4,288 21/08/2020
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Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Toyota Parasport Fund. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SELFA
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund online support and activity packs to disabled children and young people who are isolated at home due to Covid-19. It will help them feel more connected to their peers.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£2,000 02/04/2020
Funding to enable the organisation to provide essential support to the local community including co-ordinating volunteers, organising food and medicine deliveries and providing activities and food ....more
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£7,000 28/02/2020
SELFA Youth
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£3,500 28/02/2020
SELFA Youth. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20
National Lottery Community Fund - SELFA Community Champs
£10,000 11/02/2020
8
The funding will be used to run a community champs project aimed at children and young people within the local area. The project aims to provide people that are experiencing loneliness and those ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000 14/02/2019
towards SELFA Skipton Puppet Festival
Two Ridings Community Foundation - SELFA Girls Rock
£5,000 10/12/2018
Funding for a Girls Rock Retreat in for girls with disadvantaged backgrounds living in a rurally isolated area.
National Lottery Community Fund - SELFA Disabled Children's Club
£10,000 06/09/2018
12
The funding will be used to run new and exciting weekend activities for children with profound and multiple disabilities who require a high level of support to access them. The project will include ....more
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£3,000 21/02/2018
Clubs, workshops, trips and residential breaks for vulnerable, disadvantaged and disabled children and young people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£45,000 15/01/2018
SELFA Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - SELFA Leaders
£198,250 03/11/2017
36
The group will work with young people who have autism, emotional or behavioural problems or a physical or learning disability, to plan and develop regular social activities which will be suitable for ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SELFA
£77,859 17/10/2017
36
The 'see for yourself' project will provide holiday clubs for isolated, vulnerable disabled children from 4 - 19 years across 3 groups, covering 13 weeks of holidays per year. All sessions will be ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - SELFA Bentham Community Workshops
£9,970 06/09/2017
12
The group will deliver after school and holiday activities for vulnerable and disabled children, enabling them to engage in mainstream activities, resulting in a reduction in social isolation and ....more
Comic Relief - CrowdMatch
£10,000 31/08/2017
CrowdMatch
Youth Music - SELFA Music Therapy Project
£19,230 06/07/2017
SELFA Music Therapy Project
Comic Relief - SELFA Core Costs
£40,000 30/11/2016
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SELFA is a local children’s charity based in Skipton, North Yorkshire, and covers a large rural area. It works with vulnerable, disadvantaged and disabled children and young people referred by ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/10/2016, number: 1169686
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from EASTBURN PLAYGROUP on 11/05/2022
  • Asset transfer in from CRAVEN POLICE CHARITY FUND on 07/09/2023
Main office

Ings CP School
Broughton Road
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 1TE

Objectives

The relief of vulnerable, disadvantaged and disabled children and young people, their families and/or carers, in particular, but not exclusively, by the provision of health and wellbeing programmes, peer support groups, targeted holiday workshops and trips and residential breaks.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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