Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +11

THE LIVING ROOM 

The Living Room provides free, structured, group therapy, daytime community rehabilitation for adults who are abstinent but living with the illness of addiction. It also provides group therapy for family and carers of loved ones living with the illness of addiction. The free creche provides childcare for people accessing services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 6 years

http://www.livingroomherts.org/

enquiries@livingroomherts.org

01438355649

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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£920£909£11£0£308£2913.82316
31/03/22£830£859£-28£0£297£2793.92425
31/03/21£859£757£101£0£325£2594.12311
31/03/20£752£743£9£1£224£18933145
31/03/19£551£519£32£1£215£1693.92027
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 12.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 23 employees
  • 16 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hertfordshire,

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • CSJ Awards 2018 Maxie Richards Addiction
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£122,955
Garfield Weston Foundation£55,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£38,774
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£18,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Living Room
£1,514 21/10/2023
We would like to provide free group therapy at our St Albans hub for people living with eating disorders. The group runs alongside the main addiction group at The Living Room.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to The Living Room
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - Disordered Eating Therapy Groups
£122,955 01/08/2022
This funding will be used by The Living Room to provide two weekly disordered eating therapy groups to people in Hertfordshire. Over a period of three years the funding will be used to provide ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 22/04/2022
Breaking the cycle of addiction
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Living Room - 06/09/21
£1,000 21/09/2021
Core Funding
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Healing Hearts-Treatment Group for Relationship/Love/Sex addiction
£8,000 10/09/2021
Treatment group for individuals experiencing love/sex/relationship addiction in and around Stevenage.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Living Room
£50,000 08/09/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of The Living Room
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Above and Beyond
£4,961 15/06/2021
Grant to The Living Room
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to The Living Room
£5,000 29/03/2021
We have seen a rise in clients needing extra counselling support to deal with isolation and loneliness, bereavement, and worsening mental health conditions including eating disorders, depression, ....more
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Gambling Addiction Group - Pilot scheme
£3,922 11/09/2020
Grant to The Living Room
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Virtual 4th Centre
£10,000 04/08/2020
Grant to The Living Room
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 19/06/2020
The Living Room Sub-Group Fund
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Crisis Connections
£4,900 06/04/2020
Grant to The Living Room
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Wrong to Right - Breaking the Cycle of Addiction and Crime
£4,991 30/10/2019
Grant to The Living Room
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to The Living Room
£10,000 26/06/2019
12
Healing Hearts - treatment group for relationship and love/sex addiction
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - St Albans Disordered Eating Group
£5,000 03/06/2019
Grant to The Living Room
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Happy Days creche
£119,557 23/10/2018
36
Crèche for children whose parents are in recovery from substance misuse issues. By attending the crèche children will be safe, learn essential skills & be more school ready.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£59,982 23/10/2018
A grant to fund the expansion of The Living Room Disordered Eating Group for people with eating disorders.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Breaking the cycle of domestic abuse
£5,000 19/07/2018
11
Grant to The Living Room
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Males can Talk
£3,750 07/12/2017
11
Grant to The Living Room
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/11/2017, number: 1175541
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

8-10 The Glebe
Chells Way
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG2 0DJ

Objectives

(A) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF ALL PERSONS WHO ARE IN DANGER OF BECOMING ADDICTED TO, OR DEPENDENT UPON, DRUGS OF ANY DESCRIPTION, ALCOHOL, SOLVENTS OR OTHER ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES OR ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOURS WITHIN THE COUNTY OF HERTFORDSHIRE AND SUCH OTHER PLACES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND RECOVERY AND SUPPORT SERVICES.(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF ADDICTION TREATMENT BY THE PROVISION OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, SUPPORT SERVICES AND INFORMATION.

Data Sources

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