Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 5

Deficit latest year: -2
Future income +5
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
All female board: -3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 3

WINDMILLS - ACUTE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE IN STAFFORDSHIRE

To preserve and protect the physical, emotional and mental health of Children & Young People when someone significant in their life is dying or has died, by providing bespoke, focused and supportive acute bereavement care.Windmills differs from any other Child Bereavement Charity as it solely focuses on supporting Children (0-24 years) through the acute dying process and after death has occurred

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 are there only 3 trustees?
Why is the Board completely female?
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
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
30/03/23	£65	£89	£-24	n/a
30/03/22	£32	£14	£18	n/a
30/03/21	£25	£6	£18	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.windmillscharity.org

windmills2019@gmail.com

07765568062

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Staffordshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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

Postcode Local Trust	£24,910
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,250
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust	£5,000
Co-Operative Group	£1,678
Woodward Charitable Trust	£1,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000	30/10/2023	Core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Windmills - Bereavement Support for Children in Staffs
£1,678	21/10/2023	We'd like to buy memory making items that enable children and young people to gather and save special memories of their loved ones. We'd be able to create memory trees and special areas in schools.
National Lottery Community Fund - Memory Making
£9,500	14/07/2023	The funding will be used to help young people to confront and understand the impact and reality of death and support to move forward in their lives. The project aims to provide expert supportive one-to-one care that helps children and young people ....more The funding will be used to help young people to confront and understand the impact and reality of death and support to move forward in their lives. The project aims to provide expert supportive one-to-one care that helps children and young people to find a caring and positive pathway through their grieving that enables strong loving and sustaining memories to be built.
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Windmills
£5,000	07/06/2023	The funding is for specialist acute bereavement nurses to provide one to one support for bereaved children and their families.
Postcode Local Trust - Project Funding
£24,910	03/04/2023	Funding facilitated Specialist Bereavement Nurses to support over 200 local children when a loved one is dying or has died
National Lottery Community Fund - Making memories for bereaved children
£9,750	06/05/2022	The group will use the funding to provide therapeutic support for children and young people who are facing bereavement. This will improve levels of mental health and wellbeing amongst vulnerable people.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

EMMA HINE Appointed: 2023

LINDSEY ANN WILMER (Chair) Appointed: 2020

NICOLA WRENCH Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/01/2020, number: 1187408

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Fundraising Regulator

First registered: 04/27/2023, current status: Small charity

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
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

62 WINDERMERE ROAD
NEWCASTLE
ST5 3HN

Objectives

“TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHEN SOMEONE SIGNIFICANT IN THEIR LIFE IS DYING OR HAS DIED BY PROVIDING BESPOKE, FOCUSED AND SUPPORTIVE ACUTE BEREAVEMENT CARE.

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