Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 4

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Mainly male board: -1

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 5

BRISTOL AFTER STROKE

The objective of the charity is the support of those who have recovered from a stroke, their families and carers. The main activities to achieve this objective are information, advice and emotional support to individuals, the running of weekly social groups, provision of counselling and liaising with health professionals in the Bristol and South Gloucestershire areas.

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male

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
31/03/23	£458	£423	£35	n/a
31/03/22	£205	£281	£-76	n/a
31/03/21	£177	£233	£-56	n/a
31/03/20	£0	£0	£0	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

www.bristolafterstroke.org.uk

office@bristolafterstroke.org.uk

01179647657

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

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

Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000
Quartet Community Foundation	£10,878
DCMS	£8,435
Co-Operative Group	£1,274

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£2,000	01/12/2023 12	To provide weekly support groups to stroke survivors to help them pursue physical and cognitive rehabilitation and enable them to rebuild social networks.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£1,274	21/10/2023	Any funding received would go towards our counselling service, which helps individuals, who are quite often in a fragile mental state, to speak to a specialist counsellor one-on-one after a stroke.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£500	16/03/2023	As requested by the fund holder towards supporting people to adjust to life after stroke.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£500	03/01/2023	As requested by the fund holder towards supporting people to adjust to life after stroke.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	25/11/2022	Bristol After Stroke Core Costs
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£1,000	21/09/2022	As requested by the fund holder towards supporting people to adjust to life after stroke.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£500	21/03/2022	As requested by the fund holder towards supporting people to adjust to life after stroke.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£5,878	20/12/2021 6	To employ a specialist BACP registered telephone counsellor that will additional counselling sessions for Stroke-survivors over a six-month period.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol After Stroke
£500	23/03/2021	As requested by the fund holder.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,435	25/08/2020	"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."

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 62-82

DAVID EXELL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Accountant

DR CLAIRE SMETHURST Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired Gp

JAMES GRAFTON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

MICHAEL HILL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Banker

PAUL KNOWLES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Client Services Director

PETER SCOTT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

PROFESSOR STEPHEN HILL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Banker

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/02/2019, number: 1182124
Registered at Companies House on 08/02/2019, number: 11814993

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from BRISTOL AREA STROKE FOUNDATION on 04/05/2022

Main office

Gatehouse Centre
HARECLIVE ROAD
BRISTOL

Objectives

2.1 THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH IN RELATION TO STROKES AND ALLIED MEDICAL CONDITIONS BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING PREVENTION AND FACILITATING THE TREATMENT AND THE REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS.2.2 THE ABOVE PURPOSES ARE THE CHARITY’S CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE 2011 ACT. FOR AS LONG AS THE CHARITY IS REGISTERED AS A CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES, ITS PURPOSES MAY ONLY BE ALTERED WITH THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO SUCHCONSENT.

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