Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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£458,186£422,807£35,37958
31/03/22£205,176£281,408£-76,23251
31/03/21£177,225£232,753£-55,52845
31/03/20£0£0£00
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.bristolafterstroke.org.uk

office@bristolafterstroke.org.uk

01179647657

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UN SDGs
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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 works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 58 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
Quartet Community Foundation£8,878
DCMS£8,435
Co-Operative Group£1,274
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
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.
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
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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 ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-82
  • PAUL KNOWLES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Client Services Director
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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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