Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

THE SEA CHANGE TRUST

Our vision is a world where the emotional and psychological needs of children and young people can be met through early interventions in the local community. We will provide young parents/carers and their children or infants, and young adults, with the best psychotherapeutic support whatever their financial means, background or status.
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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:

  • 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
31/12/23£286£142£144n/a
31/12/22£82£79£3n/a
31/12/21£31£74£-43n/a
31/12/20£69£24£45n/a
31/12/19£21£1£20n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.theseachangetrust.co.uk

info@theseachangetrust.co.uk

01743248886

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General 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
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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£308,581
DCMS£36,750
Postcode Local Trust£24,860
Co-Operative Group£1,421
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Sea Change Trust
£1,421 21/10/2023
We would like to run group support sessions for new parents. They will be a safe and non-judgemental space, where parents and carers can share their experiences with our therapists and other families.
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Vulnerable Children
£298,581 27/04/2023
Funding will be used to support the emotional health and wellbeing of vulnerable babies children young people and parents in Shropshire and Telford. Sessions will be run by a therapist together with a worker from another project or early years ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Sea Change Trust
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Postcode Local Trust - Early Years Mental Health Support Project
£24,860 27/07/2022
Funding group and 1-2-1 sessions to help improve the mental wellbeing of babies, children and families in a safe, non-judgemental space.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Sea Change Early Years’ Service
£10,000 18/03/2022
The funding will be used to provide a variety of therapies and services for parents babies and toddlers who have experienced displacement poverty and mental ill-health. The project aims to improve participants’ wellbeing access to services and ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£36,750 29/07/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Sea Change Trust
£27,000 21/05/2019
36
This project is an early year’s support project providing support from psychotherapists to work with children experiencing 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

  • CATHERINE SHAW Appointed: 2018
  • EMMA JANE ALEXANDER Appointed: 2023
  • PAUL DYSON Appointed: 2023
  • PAUL JAMES ANDREWS Appointed: 2023
  • RICHARD TURNER Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/02/2019, number: 1181866
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

THE SEA CHANGE TRUST
8&9 VICTORIA MEWS
ST. AUSTINS FRIARS
SHREWSBURY
SY1 1RY
SY1 1RY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS OR CARERS IN SHROPSHIRE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES THROUGH, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SERVICES. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PARENTS, CARERS AND PROFESSIONALS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, WHO ARE IN NEED OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SERVICES, BY THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST TRAINING IN RELATED SUBJECTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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