Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

VETERANS OUTDOORS

To promote and protect the mental health and well-being of British military veterans, providing support, friendship and outdoor wellbeing for veterans, those still serving and those with a spousal connection. To offer horticultural therapy and other outdoor wellbeing activities, assisting in the treatment and care of such persons who may be in need of socialisation or rehabilitation.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently
  • Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/10/23£171£189£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/22£170£193£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/21*£220£156£64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/20*£77£58£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/19£12£14£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/18*£11£9£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.veteransoutdoors.org.uk

info@veteransoutdoors.org.uk

07760729080

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Armed Forces/Emergency Service Efficiency
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Ministry of Defence£55,000
National Lottery Community Fund£29,160
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
The Fore£15,000
Postcode Local Trust£14,950
Devon Community Foundation£14,245
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Local Trust - Project Funding
£14,950 30/06/2023
Funding facilitated yoga and fitness sessions for female veterans helping them to increase their activity levels and improve their health.
National Lottery Community Fund - Veterans Outdoors
£9,990 09/06/2023
The funding will be used to hold outdoor events tailored to veterans to match their interests and mental/physical needs to so engage and support beneficiaries back to better health improve quality of life and reduce isolation. The project aims to ....more
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£10,000 22/02/2023
"The Armed Forces Covenant aims to: 1) the Armed Forces Covenant defines the enduring, general principles that should govern the relationship between the Nation, the Government and the Armed Forces community. 2) It aims to encourage all parties ....more
Devon Community Foundation - Soil to Supper
£2,000 14/03/2022
contribution to a veterans' horticultural therapy programme
Ministry of Defence - OVA Afghanistan Veterans' Fund
£35,000 11/03/2022
To increase capacity in services and initiatives that offer supportive comradeship, engagement and wellbeing efforts for those in the Armed Forces community impacted by events in Afghanistan, and the wider veterans community.
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£10,000 11/02/2022
For local projects that reduce isolation and promote integration
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 24/09/2021
Veterans Farm-Able Foundation
National Lottery Community Fund - Outdoor Well-being for Veterans
£9,570 13/08/2021
The funding will be used to deliver 20 outdoor events and activities for veterans and their spouses to reduce stress and improve mental health by using outdoor settings.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Veterans Farm Able Foundation - 22/06/21
£1,000 07/07/2021
Core Funding
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Virtual Veterans Support
£6,000 18/03/2021
5
Grant to The Veterans Farm Able Foundation
The Fore - Grant to The Veterans Farm Able Foundation
£15,000 01/12/2020
36
The Veterans Farm-Able Foundation, based in the South West, exists to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of armed forces veterans who are suffering with trauma and other mental health conditions, providing support from qualified counsellors ....more
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Virtual Veteran response
£3,635 15/10/2020
2
Grant to The Veterans Farm Able Foundation
Devon Community Foundation - Corona19 Virus Support
£2,610 24/06/2020
2
Grant to The Veterans Farm Able Foundation
National Lottery Community Fund - Buckfast Farm at Farm-Able
£9,600 14/02/2020
12
The organisation will improve the infrastructure of their garden, creating a market and pollination garden, and providing a cabin which will provide the resources, storage and training to run therapeutic garden activities for military veterans with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Veterans Farm Able Foundation
£10,000 04/01/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of social farming to service personnel who are at risk, or living with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. The project aims to reduce isolation and improve mental wellbeing.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CHARLES WESTON-BAKER Appointed: 2023
  • HAYDN JOHN WHITE (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • KELLY MULLANE Appointed: 2023
  • LAURA SINCLAIR-WILLIS Appointed: 2021
  • NICHOLAS GRIFFITHS Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/10/2017, number: 1175204
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 09/08/2020, current status: Small charity
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR21: 6 days late, AR20: 41 days late, AR18: 15 days late,
Main office

4 Stonesclose
Modbury
IVYBRIDGE
Devon
PL21 0RZ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF VETERANS AND EMERGENCY SERVICES PERSONNEL SUFFERING FROM TRAUMA RELATED CONDITIONS BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING RURAL AND CRAFT SKILLS ON FARMS AND ESTATES AND TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH CONDITIONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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