Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +5

HARROW SAMARITANS 

The charity provides emotional support by telephone, visits, email, SMS and reaching out to schools. Samaritans values are based on its vision of a society in which fewer people die by suicide, or suffer despair and suicidal feelings. The charity carries out its vision by acknowledging and respecting the feelings of others and have the opportunity to explore difficult feelings.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 7 years

http://www.samaritans.org/branches/harrow-sam

harrow@samaritans.org

02084275000

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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£71£86£-15n/an/an/an/an/a95
31/03/22£87£63£24n/an/an/an/an/a72
31/03/21£101£62£39n/an/an/an/an/a82
31/03/20£69£88£-19n/an/an/an/an/a93
31/03/19£89£59£30n/an/an/an/an/a64
31/03/18£54£59£-5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 95 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Harrow,

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
DCMS£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£7,000
CAF£6,000
Co-Operative Group£4,054
Department for Work and Pensions£3,522
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Harrow Samaritans
£1,931 21/10/2023
We would like to recruit and train new volunteers, to keep the phone lines open and to reduce the waiting time for callers, particularly those callers who ring during the night shifts.
National Lottery Community Fund - Recruit New Listening Volunteers
£7,000 03/03/2023
The funding will be used to recruit and train more volunteers to support callers that contact Harrow Samaritans. The project aims to have sufficient volunteers on staff to support callers that are ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Harrow Samaritans
£2,123 22/10/2022
We plan to buy new tables and storage, to support a robust training room, which will enhance the recruitment and development experiences of new and existing volunteers at Harrow Samaritans.
Department for Work and Pensions - CHESHE
£3,522 01/04/2021
To support customers aged 18-24 to be ready to take up kickstart vacancies.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 07/08/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Harrow Samaritans
£6,000 17/07/2020
3
Grant to Harrow Samaritans to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Operational Room Refurbishment
£10,000 18/01/2019
12
The project aims to improve volunteer spaces and support those at risk of suicide.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/08/2017, number: 1174064
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • 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 SAMARITANS
44 STATION ROAD
HARROW
HA1 2SQ

Objectives

1. TO ENABLE PERSONS IN HARROW 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;2. 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; AND3. TO COLLABORATE WITH AND SUPPORT SAMARITANS CENTRAL CHARITY AND ITS AFFILIATED BRANCHES IN FULFILLING THESE OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HARROW

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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