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Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT

We are a self help support group that provides support for people who are affected by suicide. We also work to prevent / reduce loss of life by suicide. We provide a range of services including one to one support (not counselling), self help support though group meetings in various locations also a closed Facebook group open to people who have been bereaved. We have a comprehensive website.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • 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:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/07/24£10£19£-9n/a
31/07/23£19£23£-4n/a
31/07/22£8£15£-7n/a
31/07/21?£19£7£12n/a
31/08/20£18£8£10n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.sbs.org.uk

hello@sbs.org.uk

07563071725

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 20/02/2023
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Suicide Bereavement Support (SBS) Cumbria
£5,333 23/10/2021
We aim to provide dedicated support, based on self-help principles, in a flexible and responsive range of ways to meet the needs of people whose lives are shattered by the tragedy of suicide.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • EMILY JANE GRIFFITHS (Chair) Appointed: 2020
  • JOHN A M BROWN Appointed: 2022
  • JOHN PURDIE Appointed: 2021
  • KARAN A SMITH Appointed: 2022
  • SHARON J C TWEEDIE Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/08/2019, number: 1184889
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from SUICIDE BEREAVED NETWORK on 11/05/2021
Main office

c/o Woodrow Services (Cumbria) Limited
Woodrow Hall
Woodrow
Wigton
Cumbria
CA7 0AT

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE SUFFERING BEREAVEMENT AS A RESULT OF A SUICIDE IN CUMBRIA AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY: • SELF-HELP SUPPORT GROUPS, HELPLINE AND ONLINE SUPPORT INCLUDING A CLOSED FACEBOOK GROUP, ONE TO ONE SUPPORT; • SIGNPOSTING TO HELPFUL RESOURCES; • WORKING CLOSELY WITH ANY ORGANISATION OR INITIATIVE AIMED AT SUICIDE PREVENTION; • MEDIA ADVOCACY; AND • RESEARCH FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION AND BEREAVEMENT. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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