Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 7

No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 10

WONDERFUL LIFE ACADEMY

Wonderful Life Academy provides Well-being coaching in face to and online groups. We provide this service FREE to all Frontline and Key Workers. We also provide access to the online Academy with a plethora of activities and techniques to support Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual and social well-being.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

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
20/04/23	£32,522	£27,857	£4,665	15
20/04/22	£13,368	£11,787	£1,581	10
20/04/21	£13,699	£11,654	£2,045	10

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

www.wonderfullifeacademy.com

contact@wonderfullifeacademy.com

01617642310

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Armed Forces/Emergency Service Efficiency
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Other individual and family services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

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

National Lottery Community Fund	£30,000
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000
Forever Manchester	£1,984

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	28/11/2023	towards core costs over the next 12 months
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Wellbeing Workshops
£10,000	03/02/2023	The funding will be used to extend the existing well-being coaching to anyone and everyone. The project aims to help individuals create a plan of action to improve their wellbeing and resilience to ....more The funding will be used to extend the existing well-being coaching to anyone and everyone. The project aims to help individuals create a plan of action to improve their wellbeing and resilience to mental illness.
Forever Manchester - Cost of living resilience workshops
£1,000	13/12/2022	Cost of living - wellbeing support.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Well-being groups
£10,000	22/10/2021	The funding will be used to run face-to-face wellbeing group sessions in the community. The project aims to help those who are isolated or lacking in self confidence or social skills to improve ....more The funding will be used to run face-to-face wellbeing group sessions in the community. The project aims to help those who are isolated or lacking in self confidence or social skills to improve mental physical and social wellbeing.
Forever Manchester - Local well-being groups
£984	27/08/2021	Funding 12 months room hire for two support groups
National Lottery Community Fund - Providing Well-Being Support to Frontline Workers
£10,000	23/10/2020 6	The funding will be used to recruit additional staff to help meet demand providing online and face to face mental health support for people working in frontline jobs who are being severely impacted ....more The funding will be used to recruit additional staff to help meet demand providing online and face to face mental health support for people working in frontline jobs who are being severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim of the project will be to ensure that all frontline staff from emergency services and carers to teachers hospitality retail staff and transport staff can quickly access free support to help maintain their mental and physical health and wellbeing.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ELLA GOWING Appointed: 2023

LUCY GALE Appointed: 2020

MITCHELL GOWING Appointed: 2023

TIMOTHY DAVID LAYCOCK Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/07/2020, number: 1190534

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

14 All Saints Place
BURY
BL8 1ND

Objectives

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FRONTLINE WORKERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING WORKSHOPS AND COACHING SESSIONS WITH WELL-BEING COACHES AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO ON-LINE CONTENT DESIGNED TO PROMOTE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND WELL-BEING.

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