Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 18

PENHALIGON'S FRIENDS

To support bereaved children, including wider support to family care-givers, professionals and the community, enabling them to provide a supportive environment where grieving children can be understood and share their experiences as they move through their own healing process. We provide a range of support services to meet these needs.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers 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
31/03/24	£275	£255	£20	n/a
31/03/23	£214	£240	£-26	n/a
31/03/22	£241	£245	£-5	n/a
31/03/21	£155	£0	£155	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.penhaligonsfriends.org.uk

enquiries@penhaligonsfriends.org.uk

01209215889

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Other Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Other welfare services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Cornwall,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

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

Masonic Trust	£15,500
Postcode Local Trust	£12,040
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,800
Cornwall Community Foundation	£9,220
Co-Operative Group	£4,961

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Penhaligon's Friends
£2,323	21/10/2023	We would like to support bereaved children in Cornwall by sending bespoke grief support packs. These include useful, helpful and supportive ideas, resources and activities to acknowledge their loss.
Postcode Local Trust - Project Funding
£12,040	30/06/2023	We will use this funding to provide monthly peer support groups for bereaved young people in Cornwall.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bereavement Volunteer Training
£9,800	16/06/2023	The funding will be used to engage and train up to 25 new volunteers through a revised training programme where they will support the delivery of the bereavement support service for children and their families. The project will enable the group to ....more The funding will be used to engage and train up to 25 new volunteers through a revised training programme where they will support the delivery of the bereavement support service for children and their families. The project will enable the group to respond to growing demands as well as developing the skills of volunteers.
Cornwall Community Foundation - Bereaved Family Group - North/East/Mid Cornwall
£8,220	30/03/2023	Penhaligon's Friends provides bereavement support to children, young people and their families throughout Cornwall. Our support is available regardless of who and when the bereavement was
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000	13/02/2023	Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Penhaligon's Friends
£2,638	22/10/2022	We would like to fund our grief postal packs for children, which provide wellbeing ideas, memory activities, crafts and treats.
Cornwall Community Foundation - Grief Postal PAcks
£1,000	10/06/2022	Penhaligon's Friends provides bereavement support to children, young people and their families throughout Cornwall. Our support is available regardless of who and when the bereavement was
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500	02/06/2021	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISON STEPHENS (Chair) Appointed: 2021

ANNA LISA PEMBERTON Appointed: 2022

DAVID ALAN PERRY Appointed: 2022

KAREN MAUREEN REID Appointed: 2022

MICHAEL BIRD Appointed: 2019

NIGEL ARTHUR LESLIE HYDE Appointed: 2017

WILLIAM MERCER PHILLIPS Appointed: 2016

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/05/2020, number: 1189323

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

09/08/2021 - Asset transfer in from PENHALIGONS FRIENDS
04/11/2022 - Asset transfer in from THE GRAVEL ROAD TRUST

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls 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 PENHALIGONS FRIENDS on 09/08/2021
Asset transfer in from THE GRAVEL ROAD TRUST on 04/11/2022

Main office

Penhaligons Friends
Trecarrel
Drump Road
Redruth
TR15 1LU

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF BEREAVED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SERVICES OF INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL HELP.

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