Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 13
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

PAUSE CREATING SPACE FOR CHANGE 

Pause works with women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeat removals of children from their care. We aim to break this cycle and give women the opportunity to develop new skills and responses that can help them create a more positive future.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and 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:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 7 years

www.pause.org.uk

info@pause.org.uk

02030111949

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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£2,243£2,456£-213£0£953£9344.63814
31/03/22£1,477£2,537£-1,061£0£1,166£1,1465.4398
31/03/21£4,812£4,983£-171£0£2,227£1,3243.2227
31/03/20£3,093£2,235£858£0£2,398£1,4377.7220
31/03/19£4,034£3,138£896£0£1,540£8133.1200
31/03/18£3,525£3,268£257£0£645£5332140
31/03/17£778£395£382£0£388£36111140

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 4.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 10.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 38 employees
  • 14 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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
Department for Education£3,685,375
Esmee Fairbairn£270,829
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
CHK Foundation£100,000
DCMS£40,000
Comic Relief£35,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Pause Creating Space for Change
£10,000 15/11/2023
Purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with women with children removed from their care in Staffordshire
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Pause Creating Space for Change
£180,000 11/05/2023
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support for women who have had, or are at risk of having, multiple children removed from their care in Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pause Creating Space for Change
£19,886 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£75,000 09/11/2022
to support specified work
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Pause Creating Space for Change
£198,857 22/06/2022
Towards core costs to bring about systemic change so all women who have a child removed through the family court are offered support to prevent the damaging cycle of repeat removals of children from ....more
Comic Relief - Sharing Voices
£35,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to PAUSE
£52,086 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Department for Education - Supporting Families Investing In Practice (SFIP)
£3,685,375 01/04/2020
Investing over £17 million into innovation projects to help keep families safe.Successful local authorities will be supported to embed one of three models: Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs), a ....more
DCMS - Sharing Voices
£40,000 01/04/2020
Pause works with women who have experienced or are at risk of repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. The programme gives women the chance to pause and ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£25,000 17/03/2020
to support specified work
Department for Education - CSC Innovation Programme
£1,295,653 01/04/2019
Creating a culture of innovation is at the heart of the departments vision for childrens social care, and crucial to the delivery of our reforms in three areas: People and Leadership, Practice and ....more
DCMS - Sharing Voices
£40,000 01/04/2019
Pause works with women who have experienced or are at risk of repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. The programme gives women the chance to pause and ....more
DCMS - Sharing Voices
£40,000 10/12/2018
Pause works with women who have experienced or are at risk of repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. The programme gives women the chance to pause and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to PAUSE
£328,362 06/11/2018
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Towards core costs to develop a post ‘Pause’ support for women who have had children removed and taken into care and to ensure that their voices are heard in shaping the systems they encounter.
Comic Relief - Sharing Voices
£120,000 06/11/2018
36
Pause works with women who have experienced – or are at risk of – repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. The programme gives women the chance to pause ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating space for change
£1,563,114 17/08/2017
36
This organisation, who work with those who have experienced, or are at risk of, having their children removed from their care, will use the funding to expand their programme to Scotland, Wales and ....more
DCMS - Tampon Tax Fund
£233,330 01/04/2017
to expand their current programme nationwide, enabling women to make choices about their future and reduce the number of children being removed into care
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 46-70
  • AIDEEN LEE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Communications Consultant
  • LARA PATEL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Deputy Director Of Local Authority
  • NAT SLOANE (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Investor
  • NIMAL JUDE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Policy Advisor / Social Worker
  • VICKI NASH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Charity Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/11/2016, number: 1170310
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/07/2015, number: 09703298
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ground Floor
209 - 211 City Road
London
EC1V 1JN

Objectives

4.1 The Charity's objects (Objects) are, for the public benefit:To prevent and relieve the suffering and hardship of children, and families in need, particularly but not exclusively in circumstances where a child is at risk of being removed from the parents’ care by order of the courts due to risk of significant harm. To do so in particular but not exclusively through supporting the provision of a therapeutic relationship with a skilled practitioner providing advice, counselling and intense support to those who have experienced, or are at risk of repeatedly having, their children taken into care and by facilitating constructive relationships with those within their system including partners, family and professionals.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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