Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

    CRADLE CHARITY 

    Providing bereavement support resources to healthcare professionals and counselling to bereaved parents.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
    Established: 4 years

    www.cradlecharity.org

    Info@cradlecharity.org

    07870904113

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    UN SDGs
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    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
    Deficit
    Volun-
    teers

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Listed activities
    • Disability
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England And Wales,
    Who it helps
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 35 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
    The Fore£15,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
    Co-Operative Group£6,767
    Stockport MBC£5,000
    Essex Community Foundation£3,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to CRADLE - Southport
    £4,140 21/10/2023
    The funds will be used to provide our Support Group, Comfort Bags and CRADLE Hearts and everything that is provided as part of the CRADLE service supporting bereaved in the Southport Community
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to CRADLE - Ormskirk
    £1,503 21/10/2023
    The funds will be used to provide our Support Group, Comfort Bags and CRADLE Hearts and everything that is provided as part of the CRADLE service supporting bereaved in the Ormskirk Community
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to CRADLE at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust (SaTH)
    £1,123 22/10/2022
    We'd like to provide specialist counselling to those affected by pregnancy loss, and to extend the counselling service to NHS Nursing and Bereavement Staff to support their mental health as carers.
    National Lottery Community Fund - CRADLE Pregnancy Loss Bereavement Service
    £10,000 13/05/2022
    The funding will be used to provide comfort packs which include practical items and maintain the online support services for people and families who have experienced pregnancy loss. The project aims ....more
    The Fore - Grant to  Cradle
    £15,000 01/04/2022
    18
    CRADLE supports individuals, couples, families and surrogates whose pregnancy ends or is ended before 24 weeks. CRADLE is using The Fore grant to part fund two freelance professionals (FTE 0.6) in ....more
    Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Cradle Charity
    £3,000 05/08/2021
    Towards the provision of fast track counselling for parents who have experienced early pregnancy loss in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend
    Stockport MBC - Grant to Cradle
    £5,000 01/02/2021
    Providing comfort bags to parents.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (10)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/08/2020, number: 1190761
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Campaigns and political activity 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
    • Investing charity funds 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

    HESKETH MOUNT
    92-96 LORD STREET
    SOUTHPORT
    Merseyside
    PR8 1JR

    Objectives

    THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:- FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE BY CHARITABLE MEANS ACROSS THE UK THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF BEREAVED PARENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE SUFFERING ILL-MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH DURING OR FOLLOWING EARLY PREGNANCY LOSS, MEANING PREGNANCIES TO 23 WEEKS AND 6 DAYS GESTATION, WITH THE AIM TO PROVIDE IMMEDIATE COMFORT AND ONGOING SUPPORT.IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) PROVIDING COMFORT BAGS OF TOILETRIES FOR BOTH WOMEN AND THEIR PARTNERS WHO ARE ADMITTED UNEXPECTEDLY OR IN AN EMERGENCY TO HOSPITAL. B) PROVIDING THE CRADLE DEAR FRIEND LETTER TO BEREAVED PARENTS BEFORE OR DURING THE NHS DISCHARGE PROCESS, WHICH WILL SIGNPOST BEREAVED PARENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO CRADLE COUNSELLING, AS WELL AS TO OUR ONLINE SUPPORT PEER SUPPORT GROUPS AND LOCAL CRADLE NHS AMBASSADORS. C) PROVIDING A RANGE OF COUNSELLING AND THERAPY SERVICES TO BEREAVED PARENTS THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE CRADLE COMFORT BAG DURING THEIR CARE WITHIN THE SETTING OF A LAUNCHED CRADLE SERVICE IN THE NHS. D) PROVIDE SUPPORT AND INFORMATION ON ALL TYPES OF EARLY PREGNANCY LOSS INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE TO; CHEMICAL PREGNANCY, PREGNANCY OF UNKNOWN LOCATION, ECTOPIC PREGNANCY, MOLAR, MISCARRIAGE, MISSED MISCARRIAGE, TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR MEDICAL REASONS (COMPASSIONATE INDUCTION) E) PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR AN NHS TRUSTS LOCAL COMMUNITY TO TAKE PART IN CRADLE GRIEF THERAPY PROJECTS, FOR EXAMPLE THE NATIONAL CRADLE PLANT THERAPY CAMPAIGN 2 CRADLESUNFLOWERS WHICH LAUNCHED IN APRIL 2020 F) PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR BEREAVED PARENTS TO PUT THEIR EMOTIONAL PAIN TO PURPOSE AND TO JOIN THE NATIONAL TEAM OF CRADLE AMBASSADORS, EACH ASSIGNED TO THEIR CHOSEN NHS TRUST. G) DO ALL SUCH LAWFUL THINGS THAT MAY FURTHER THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS 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
    CharityBase
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