Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 7

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 15

FRIENDS ACTION NORTH EAST

To provide a broad spectrum of projects to enable sustainable friendships/connections to reduce social isolation in the community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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	£152,526	£126,746	£25,780	13
31/03/22	£117,884	£108,310	£9,574	14
31/03/21	£161,325	£122,960	£38,365	16
31/03/20	£0	£0	£0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.friendsaction.co.uk

INFO@FRIENDSACTION.CO.UK

01912314327

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Other Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Community services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
13 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

The Greggs Foundation	£50,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Greggs Foundation - North East Core Funding
£50,000	25/11/2022 36	£50,000 over three years (£10,000 year one and £20,000 years two and three) towards the salaries of their Volunteer Coordinator and Project Managers
National Lottery Community Fund - Health and wellbeing hubs
£10,000	25/11/2022	The funding will be used to provide social activities for people living with learning disabilities and autism. The project aims bring people together to improve mental health and well-being.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community recovery programme
£10,000	17/09/2021	The funding will be used to deliver group and one-to-one activity and support sessions for people with learning disabilities and autism including dance yoga gardening and forest school activities. ....more The funding will be used to deliver group and one-to-one activity and support sessions for people with learning disabilities and autism including dance yoga gardening and forest school activities. The organisation will also recruit and train volunteers to provide both online and face to face sessions with the aim to reduce isolation improve wellbeing and help build friendships.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	14/02/2020	Friendship mentoring/training and social connections
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Towards running costs of a mentoring programme supporting people with learning disabilities and autism Yr2
£60,000	01/04/2019	Towards running costs of a mentoring programme supporting people with learning disabilities and autism Yr2

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

BARBARA CREED Appointed: 2019

GRAHAM NEWTON Appointed: 2019

GLENN HOWE Appointed: 2019

KATE GIBSON (Chair) Appointed: 2022

LOUISE TEBBLE Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/03/2019, number: 1182364

Gift Aid

NOT 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 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

4 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from FRIENDS ACTION NORTH EAST on 24/03/2023

Main office

C/O Ouseburn Farm
Ouseburn Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 2PA

Objectives

(I) TO ASSIST PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND AUTISM TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN FRIENDSHIPS AND FRIENDSHIP GROUPS TO ENABLE THEM TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY(II) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND SUPPORTERS OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND AUTISM IN ALL ISSUES RELATED TO LEARNING DISABILITIES AND AUTISM PARTICULARLY FRIENDSHIP AND SOCIALISATION

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