Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 6

Future income +5
No PartB

All female board: -3

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 8

THE SPECIAL LIONESS

Based in North East offering support groups, holiday play groups, events. Giving families a safe place to meet and enable families living outside the local area an opportunity to connect with others in similar situations. Creating a safe and accessible place to explore and enable some form of socialisation with other families in the same situation and allow siblings to interact with other siblings

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why is the Board completely female?

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	£58	£39	£19	n/a
31/03/22	£18	£18	£1	n/a
31/03/21	£12	£6	£6	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

thespeciallioness.com

info@thespeciallioness.com

07970416825

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Cumbria, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
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

National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
The Foyle Foundation	£7,000
Masonic Trust	£5,000
County Durham Community Foundation	£4,330
Sport England	£2,315

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£5,000	22/01/2024	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£7,000	18/09/2023	towards core costs over the next 12 months
National Lottery Community Fund - Sensory on the Sea
£5,450	16/06/2023	The funding will be used to take children and their families living with life limiting conditions and disabilities on a catamaran sailing trip. The project aims to connect people living in similar circumstances improve mental health reduce ....more The funding will be used to take children and their families living with life limiting conditions and disabilities on a catamaran sailing trip. The project aims to connect people living in similar circumstances improve mental health reduce isolation and have fun learning new skills.
County Durham Community Foundation - Summer Social
£4,330	01/03/2023	To provide three half term family events.
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - SEND Dance School
£2,315	27/03/2022	A project to to create a safe, inclusive and stimulating Dance Sessions for 50 children & young people with disabilities and life limiting conditions to create music, rhythm and fun in a wonderful space. The aim is to promote personal ....more A project to to create a safe, inclusive and stimulating Dance Sessions for 50 children & young people with disabilities and life limiting conditions to create music, rhythm and fun in a wonderful space. The aim is to promote personal confidence, social-awareness and interaction.
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent Carer Support Group
£4,550	03/09/2021	The project will use the funding to restart its weekly support group for parents of children with a disability. This will provide participants with a nurturing environment a peer support network respite and access to training and education around ....more The project will use the funding to restart its weekly support group for parents of children with a disability. This will provide participants with a nurturing environment a peer support network respite and access to training and education around their child’s disability helping to reduce their isolation and improve wellbeing which has been impacted by the pandemic.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

AMY HOWES Appointed: 2020

CLAIRE STEWART (Chair) Appointed: 2021

JUSTINE MILLER Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/01/2020, number: 1187356

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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

Filing Record

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

4 Baird Close
WASHINGTON
Tyne And Wear
NE37 3HL

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARETO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES BASED IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND THEIR PARENTS AND CARERS BY PROVIDING WEEKLY SUPPORT GROUPS AND HOLIDAY PLAY GROUPS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION. 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].

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