Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 7

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 14

BE ME PROJECT

Be Me Project provides support for a wide spectrum of people ranging from young people in secondary school to younger women within our communities. It delivers courses and one to one sessions that encourage positive mental wellbeing, confident mind-sets, inspiring people to be uniquely themselves and raising levels of self esteem and resilience.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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

http://www.bemeproject.org

office@bemeproject.org

04475 0371 8227

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/07/23	£176,961	£173,041	£3,920	5
31/07/22	£171,553	£100,569	£70,984	17
31/07/21	£69,108	£57,354	£11,754	11
31/07/20	£71,612	£29,166	£42,446	11
31/07/19	£40,428	£24,151	£16,277	19

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Religious Activities
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Cumbria, Kent, Surrey,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 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

Community Foundation for Surrey	£296,997
Cumbria Community Foundation	£21,860
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,990

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Mental Health Scale Up
£253,746	05/12/2022	Funding to expand delivery of courses to young people addressing mental health challenges.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Be Me courses to enhance mental wellbeing amongst vulnerable women and teenagers (mainly girls) in Surrey
£10,000	13/10/2022	Funding towards a variety of projects and courses by a young people’s mental health specialist.
Cumbria Community Foundation - Course Delivery
£11,860	26/01/2022	Course Delivery
Community Foundation for Surrey - Funding to provide mental health workshops for women and young people in East Surrey
£23,268	28/06/2021 11	Funding to provide mental health workshops for women and young people in East Surrey
National Lottery Community Fund - Be Me Project
£9,990	19/03/2021 11	The funding will be used to deliver wellbeing courses for people living with mental health problems. The project aims to improve confidence and resilience and develop people’s coping strategies.
Community Foundation for Surrey - 9 courses of the 'She Is' project to build confidence and resilience
£5,833	30/01/2020 8	'She Is' courses ti promote well-being and positive mental health confidence and resilience in teenage girls
Community Foundation for Surrey - 9 courses of the 'She Is' project to build confidence and resilience
£4,150	19/12/2019 8	'She Is' courses ti promote well-being and positive mental health confidence and resilience in teenage girls
Cumbria Community Foundation - Be Me Project Pilot
£10,000	31/10/2019	Be Me Project Pilot
Community Foundation for Surrey - Be Me project - 12 She Is courses in Surrey
£6,318	07/01/2019 12	Courses for women and girls to encourage self-esteem and self-confidence.
National Lottery Community Fund - Be Me project - 12 courses
£7,470	14/12/2018 12	The project will use the funding to run self-esteem courses for women and girls, with the aim of helping attendees to build their resilience and improve wellbeing.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

ALISON RUTH THOMAS BA Appointed: 2017

DR ELISABETH MOFFETT Appointed: 2022

ELIZABETH MARLOW Appointed: 2022

JUSTIN THOMAS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Investment Planning

PIERIS HAJITTOFI Appointed: 2017

STEPHEN BARNES Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/10/2017, number: 1175239

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

Front Office
The Mayflower Centre
Lyons Court
Dorking
RH4 1AB

Objectives

1)TO ADVANCE YOUNG PEOPLE IN LIFE THROUGH PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES AND ADVANCE THE SOCIAL, MORAL, CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, THROUGH COURSES, CLASSES, ACTIVITIES, ADVICE AND GUIDANCE SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.2) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH COURSES, CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES.

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