Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 8

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 11

IPSUM

Offering the opportunity to work on physical, emotional and mental wellbeing through creative arts, music and talking therapies. We promote and facilitate change for all who engage with our services. Offering a programme of mental wellbeing through prevention, recovery and sustainability for both adults and children.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
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

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/24	£175	£333	£-158	n/a
31/03/23	£316	£281	£35	n/a
31/03/22	£389	£214	£176	n/a
31/03/21	£265	£186	£79	n/a
31/03/20	£99	£194	£-94	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

www.ipsum.care

admin@ipsum.care

01793695405

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Outpatient support services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

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

National Lottery Community Fund	£194,749
Garfield Weston Foundation	£60,000
DCMS	£60,000
Wiltshire Community Foundation	£48,500
Postcode Local Trust	£20,140

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000	07/02/2023	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	27/01/2023	Ipsum Creative Arts and Music
Postcode Local Trust - IPSUM Creative Arts Youth Project
£20,140	26/04/2022	Young people in Swindon turned their mental health around and brought light into our community with their art, sculpture, music and theatre.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to IPSUM
£6,000	17/01/2022	Grant to IPSUM
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Arts and Crafts
£1,500	08/12/2021	IPSUM provides a range of therapeutic interventions and support for people experiencing mental health issues. Funding is towards materials for their art therapy sessions.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£30,000	14/05/2021	IPSUM Creative Arts and Talking Therapies
National Lottery Community Fund - IPSUM Youth
£184,749	26/02/2021 36	The organisation will use the funding to respond to the needs of the increased younger cohort of 16 to 24 year olds referred. This will include a digital audio workstation DJ workshops cohesive group art projects and outreach work.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to IPSUM
£36,000	09/12/2020	Grant to support increase in demand for counselling and therapeutic services.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£60,000	22/09/2020	"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to IPSUM
£5,000	07/05/2020	Remote telephone counselling and art therapy in Swindon.
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting lonliness and isolation
£10,000	30/04/2020 4	The funding will be used to deliver a virtual and telephone support service to those suffering poor mental health during the Covid-19 lockdown. It will offer art tutorials for all ages using household items readily available within the home i.e. ....more The funding will be used to deliver a virtual and telephone support service to those suffering poor mental health during the Covid-19 lockdown. It will offer art tutorials for all ages using household items readily available within the home i.e. music lessons interactive jamming and digital audio workstation tutorials. It will also offer one to one telephone support. The project aims to keep in touch with vulnerable individuals and offer positive distraction at a time of vulnerability.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Creativity through therapeutic music.
£15,000	03/09/2019	IPSUM is a well-being centre in Swindon, providing a range of therapies including counselling, art and music psychotherapies. The grant will help meet the cost of therapeutic music work with young people facing a variety of mental health issues.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

AMY WARDALL Appointed: 2023

COLIN MATTINSON Appointed: 2019

LORRAINE BAKER Appointed: 2023

MATTHEW HINDLE Appointed: 2024

MICHELLE WOOLLES Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/01/2018, number: 1176614

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

15/02/2020 - Asset transfer in from SWINDON AND WILTSHIRE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE
29/05/2024 - Asset transfer in from THE BENI BEAR CLUB
09/07/2024 - Asset transfer in from SHOEBOX THEATRE

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
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

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from SWINDON AND WILTSHIRE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE on 15/02/2020
Asset transfer in from THE BENI BEAR CLUB on 29/05/2024
Asset transfer in from SHOEBOX THEATRE on 09/07/2024

Main office

13 MILTON ROAD
SWINDON
WILTSHIRE
SN1 5JE

Objectives

TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT, CARE, AND REHABILITATION OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL, EMOTIONAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLNESS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ISSUES RELATING TO DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE, BY:(I) THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT CONCERNED WITH THE ALLEVIATION OF SYMPTOMS AND THE CURE OF ILLNESS ANCILLARY TO THOSE PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, AND(II) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR IMMERSIVE CREATIVE THERAPIES

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