Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

ACTIVE AND IN TOUCH FROME 

Active & In Touch Frome's purpose is to promote social inclusion for the public benefit, across all adult age groups (18 and over) in Frome and surrounding villages. Focusing on isolated members of our community, assisting them to integrate into society, using our volunteers to support them. This is done by 1:1 befriending, visiting them in their homes, social group activities and special events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

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

enquiries@activeandintouch.org

07539 795261

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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*£69£70£-1n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/22£78£77£1n/an/an/an/an/a450
31/03/21£71£56£15n/an/an/an/an/a250
31/03/20£42£43£-1n/an/an/an/an/a215
31/03/19£30£26£4n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/03/18£24£16£8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Somerset,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 150 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
National Lottery Community Fund£146,421
Somerset Community Foundation£27,159
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
DCMS£7,070
Masonic Trust£7,000
Allen Lane Foundation£5,000
The Foyle Foundation£4,000
Co-Operative Group£843
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Somerset Community Foundation - Reducing isolation and loneliness among adults in Frome and the surrounding area
£3,000 12/12/2022
Reducing isolation and loneliness among adults in Frome and the surrounding area
Somerset Community Foundation - Reducing isolation and loneliness among adults in Frome and the surrounding area
£5,000 10/10/2022
Grant to Active and In Touch
National Lottery Community Fund - Active & In Touch
£126,821 24/08/2022
The project will be used to alleviate isolation and loneliness for adults in Frome Somerset. They aim to promote social inclusion for the public benefit across all adult age groups (18 and over) in ....more
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Active and In Touch Frome
£5,000 11/07/2022
£5,000 over two years towards the salary of the Volunteer Driver Coordinator.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 04/03/2022
Active & In Touch Befriending
Somerset Community Foundation - Grant to Active and In Touch
£300 15/11/2021
Christmas lunch for members that are lonely or isolated
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Active & In Touch
£843 23/10/2021
We will organise group day trips out to encourage individuals to be more active and engage with others in order to improve their health and wellbeing.
Somerset Community Foundation - Befriending and support services for isolated older people in Frome
£2,000 30/09/2021
Befriending and support services for isolated older people in Frome
Somerset Community Foundation - Befriending and support services for isolated older people in Frome
£2,500 23/09/2021
Befriending and support services for isolated older people in Frome
National Lottery Community Fund - Active & In Touch
£9,800 10/09/2021
The funding will be used to continue the organisation's befriending service offering phone calls meet up groups a walking group and a network of drivers providing essential services.
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 community drivers and other support activities
£4,000 28/05/2021
COVID19 community drivers and other support activities
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£7,000 26/05/2021
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Somerset Community Foundation - Reducing isolation
£859 11/02/2021
Social connection for vulnerable people in Frome
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Shopping support for isolated people in Frome
£2,000 14/12/2020
3
Grant to Active and In Touch
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,070 17/07/2020
"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
Somerset Community Foundation - COVID19 Volunteer support for isolated people in Frome
£2,500 30/03/2020
1
Volunteer support for isolated people in Frome
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 21/02/2020
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Active & In Touch Connections
£9,800 24/01/2020
11
The organisation will use the funding to develop their befriending services for younger people within the community, with a view to improving health and well-being and reducing social isolation.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£4,000 28/11/2019
towards ongoing costs during yearend March 2021
Somerset Community Foundation - Core funding. 3 -5 years.
£5,000 17/06/2019
71
Core running costs of combating loneliness and isolation in Frome
Somerset Community Foundation - Active and In Touch Frome - Sustaining Service Provision
£2,500 21/06/2018
11
Core costs of combating isolation and loneliness among older people in Frome
Somerset Community Foundation - Active and In Touch Frome
£2,500 18/07/2016
11
Reconnecting isolated older people to their community
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/04/2017, number: 1172434
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR23: 1 days late,
Main office

Harlows Of Frome
22 Christchurch Street West
FROME
BA11 1EE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN FROME AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PREVENTING PEOPLE AGED 18 AND OVER FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ INCLUDES BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ILL HEALTH, OR IN NEED DUE TO OLD AGE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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