Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +4
    Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

    SKY POSITIVE MINDS 

    SKY Positive Minds aims to preserve and protect the physical and mental health of women and children in North Kirklees who have experienced domestic abuse, have anxiety, stress and other disadvantages, through one to one sessions or group workshops that will give them skills and techniques to improve their confidence and emotional resilience.We also advance the education of children by running
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending since inception

    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£140,522£102,779£37,74315
    31/03/22*£49,937£45,372£4,5655
    31/03/21*£68,260£57,677£10,58310
    31/03/20£41,589£26,421£15,1686
    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 5 years

    www.skypositiveminds.org.uk

    sky_pm@outlook.com

    07809430845

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • Services for females
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Kirklees,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Defined Groups
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 15 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
    Power to Change£10,000
    Virgin Money Foundation£8,000
    DCMS£7,500
    Rosa UK£7,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Rosa UK - VftF R5-SKYPOS-2022
    £7,000 15/12/2022
    £7,000 has been awarded to Sky Positive Minds to challenge the experience of mental health within the South Asian community. SKY will offer one-to-one coaching to build confidence and resilience to ....more
    Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to SKY Positive Minds
    £8,000 10/05/2022
    Grant through the Leading the Way Programme to support the leader's development and the impact of their organisation.
    Power to Change - C-19 CCLORS - SKY Positive Minds
    £10,000 15/10/2020
    Grant to C-19 CCLORS - SKY Positive Minds
    DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
    £5,000 28/02/2020
    SYNC - Together for Change
    DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
    £2,500 28/02/2020
    SYNC - Together for Change. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial ....more

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (6)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/07/2019, number: 1184213
    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
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • 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; AR22: 20 days late, AR21: 1 days late,
    Main office

    SKY Positive Minds
    Soothill
    BATLEY
    WF17 6LU

    Objectives

    1)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN NORTH KIRKLEES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED DOMESTIC ABUSE, HAVE ANXIETY, STRESS AND OTHER DIFFICULTIES, THROUGH ONE TO ONE SESSIONS OR GROUP WORKSHOPS THAT WILL GIVE THEM SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE THEIR CONFIDENCE AND EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE AND TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT, SELF-SUSTAINABLE ASSISTANCE AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES; AND2)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY RUNNING WORKSHOPS THAT GIVE THEM THE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE, WHICH WILL ENABLE THEM ABLE TO COPE WITH CHALLENGES AND OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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