Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE BUS SHELTER DORSET 

The Bus Shelter Dorset offers rough sleepers or those at risk of homelessness a safe place to live with access to a supportive community environment and 24 hour high support tailored to meet their individual needs.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

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£410£383£26n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£272£261£11n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£177£123£54n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£132£115£17n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19?£87£74£13n/an/an/an/an/a8
18/01/18£29£20£9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

thebusshelterdorset@GMAIL.COM

07341989950

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Dorset,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 volunteers

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
Lloyds Bank Foundation£102,250
Tudor Trust£68,000
DCMS£25,832
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Wates Foundation£9,636
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Bus Shelter Dorset
£10,000 13/01/2023
The funding will be used towards the cost of a support worker enabling the project to provide help and safe accommodation to former rough sleepers or those at risk of becoming rough sleepers. The ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to The Bus Shelter Dorset
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Bus Shelter Dorset
£50,000 07/12/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of The Bus Shelter Dorset
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to The Bus Shelter Dorset
£920 30/08/2022
Equipment, plants, seeds and volunteer expenses to support Allotment at Tumbledown Farm, as part of wrap around support for homeless individuals that are being housed by the charity
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bus Shelter Dorset
£68,000 25/02/2022
24
over two years towards the operational manager's salary at an accommodation and support charity for homeless people in Weymouth
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to The Bus Shelter Dorset
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of The Bus Shelter Dorset, awarded under the Foundation's Homeless and Vulnerably Housed funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£17,668 03/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£3,840 26/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,324 25/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Wates Foundation - The Bus Shelter Dorset
£9,636 09/07/2020
Support for the 'Next Stop' project - to have 8 converted containers within the designated area of the existing Bus operation.
CAF - Grant to The Bus Shelter Dorset
£2,800 04/05/2020
3
Grant to The Bus Shelter Dorset to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Activities Worker
£10,000 27/03/2020
11
The project works with homeless people to reach their full potential and come off the streets. Retaining the Activity Worker role will continue to increase capacity and provide a more valuable ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Bus Shelter Dorset
£4,706 19/11/2018
We are raising funds to convert a bus into a mobile shelter for rough sleepers. The objective is to maintain this facility indefinitely.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/03/2017, number: 1171882
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Compasses
19 Main Street
Broadmayne
DORCHESTER
Dorset
DT2 8EB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS PERSONS, OR THOSE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS, BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE, SIGNPOSTING AND SUPPORT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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