Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 6

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 7

SAMARITANS OF COVENTRY AND DISTRICT

Coventry & District Samaritans provides confidential emotional support to people who are in distress or despair or who are feeling suicidal. The service is available 24 hours a day, every day, for contact by phone, email or text and between 10.00 a.m - 9.00 p.m for personal callers.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

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	£94	£79	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	95
31/03/22	£100	£64	£35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	120
31/03/21	£129	£61	£68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	120
31/03/20	£131	£55	£76	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	160
31/03/19	£129	£55	£74	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	140
31/03/18	£79	£51	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

http://www.samaritans.org/branches/coventry

jane.nickerson@swimming.org

02476678678

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Coventry City, Warwickshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
95 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out
£67,850	26/02/2019 12	The Coventry Samaritans will update and improve the operational space, improving services for service users, facilities for volunteer.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CHARMAINE MULLIGAN Appointed: 2018

KENNETH MARK NEWBOLD Appointed: 2023

MICHAEL BALLINGER Appointed: 2019

JANE MARY NICKERSON Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeship: SAMWORTH BROTHERS COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY FUND,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/07/2017, number: 1173728

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; all on time

Main office

SAMARITANS
57 MOOR STREET
COVENTRY
CV5 6ER

Objectives

TO ENABLE PERSONS IN COVENTRY AND DISTRICT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AS WELL AS ELSEWHERE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FEELINGS OF DISTRESS OR DESPAIR, INCLUDING THOSE WHO MAY BE AT RISK OF SUICIDE, TO RECEIVE CONFIDENTIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF SUICIDE;TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING IN SOCIETY OF SUICIDE, SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE VALUE OF EXPRESSING FEELINGS WHICH MAY OTHERWISE LEAD TO SUICIDE OR IMPAIRED EMOTIONAL HEALTH; ANDTO COLLABORATE WITH AND SUPPORT SAMARITANS CENTRAL CHARITY AND ITS AFFILIATED BRANCHES IN FULFILLING THESE OBJECTS.

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