Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 8

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 3

BUTTERFLIES BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT

The provision of services related to bereavement These activities include Bereavement Counselling and Support Services. The alleviation of loneliness and isolation.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£9,641	£25,194	£-15,553	77
31/12/21	*	£36,269	£27,303	£8,966	40
31/12/20		£37,100	£22,800	£14,300	150
31/12/19		£24,287	£15,933	£8,354	32

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.bflies.org.uk

info@bflies.org.uk

02381550066

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Other individual and family services

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Dorset, Hampshire, Isle Of Wight, West Sussex, Wiltshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
77 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£17,950
DCMS	£5,390
Co-Operative Group	£4,521
CAF	£2,400

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Bereavement Support
£8,000	28/03/2023	The funding will be used to expand their work including increasing counselling telephone buddies and friendship groups supporting people who are bereaved or lonely. The project aims to help people ....more The funding will be used to expand their work including increasing counselling telephone buddies and friendship groups supporting people who are bereaved or lonely. The project aims to help people with their loss or loneliness reduce isolation build relationships and improve mental wellbeing.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Butterflies Bereavement Support
£843	23/10/2021	The project will train volunteers to be telephone and friendship buddies to accompany people on walks etc and create friendship clubs that act as a meeting point for our community.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Butterflies Bereavement Support
£3,678	24/10/2020	Butterflies is seeking funding to enable us to create a dedicated bereavement support centre for the wider community.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,390	24/07/2020	"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 "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."
CAF - Grant to Butterflies Bereavement Support
£2,400	08/06/2020	Grant to Butterflies Bereavement Support to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Butterflies Isle of Wight
£9,950	24/02/2020 12	The funding will be used to train volunteers in early grief counselling, create support networks and friendship groups. The project aims to support individuals and families who have experienced ....more The funding will be used to train volunteers in early grief counselling, create support networks and friendship groups. The project aims to support individuals and families who have experienced traumatic bereavement in a hard to reach location.
National Lottery Community Fund - Suicide Support and Prevention Project
£9,885	23/11/2018 12	The project will bring together families and the wider community impacted by suicide. This will involve training volunteers to gain applied suicide intervention skill and support people within the ....more The project will bring together families and the wider community impacted by suicide. This will involve training volunteers to gain applied suicide intervention skill and support people within the community through prevention plans.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

JANE GOOLD-DAVIES Appointed: 2020

JUDITH HOPKINS Appointed: 2020

JULIE LAMONT (Chair) Appointed: 2020

TRACEY ELDRIDGE Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeships: ROMSEY AND DISTRICT CARERS FORUM, CARERS TOGETHER SOUTHAMPTON, WARREN CLARK GOLFING DREAMS LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/01/2019, number: 1181599

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

4 returns made; AR21: 175 days late,

Main office

19 Pirelli Way
EASTLEIGH
Hampshire
SO50 5GE

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL, SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS OF THE PUBLIC PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING FREE BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY.

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