Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 9
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

RELEASE COUNSELLING AND THERAPY FOR WOMEN CIO

We provide 1-2-1 counselling and therapeutic groups to women experiencing a range of mental health distress across Brighton & Hove, and the surrounding areas. We also provide training for these purposes.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers including the Government 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£125£123£2n/a
31/03/22£101£95£6n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

www.releaseforwomen.org.uk

info@releaseforwomen.org.uk

07954216995

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Henry Smith Charity£152,100
National Lottery Community Fund£30,360
Sussex Community Foundation£26,250
Postcode Society Trust£24,938
Sport England£13,750
J J Charitable Trust£5,000
The Foyle Foundation£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Release Counselling and Therapy for Women
£5,000 08/03/2024
8
Funding was provided for Mother Nurture (previously Mummyshock) counselling programme for new mums.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Release Counselling and Therapy for Women
£750 10/11/2023
Funding was provided towards their Mummyshock early-intervention counselling group in Whitehawk.
Sport England - Movement for Mums Mental Health
£6,700 05/10/2023
6
This project will help support the physical and mental health for new mothers that are inactive. This will be delivered by 3 x 10 weekly group sessions offering yoga, dance and Pilates. Each group will have 25 adults and 25 infants per group, for 2 ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Release Counselling and Therapy for Women
£149,100 14/06/2023
36
towards three years' salary and on costs of the CEO and the Administrator at an organisation providing counselling for women with maternal mental health issues in Brighton & Hove and East and West Sussex.
National Lottery Community Fund - Movement for Mum's Mental Health Project
£10,000 25/11/2022
The funding will be used to run movement-based support groups for new mums facing post-natal depression and anxiety. This project aims to use yoga running and pilates to facilitate post-natal recovery through the development of coping mechanisms ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Release Counselling and Therapy for Women
£10,000 11/11/2022
Funding was provided towards workshops for mums.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Release Counselling and Therapy for Women
£500 27/10/2022
Funding was provided towards a10 week Mummyshock course in Whitehawk.
Postcode Society Trust - Mummyshock Therapeutic Groups & Women’s Mental Health Wellbeing Day Workshops
£24,938 27/06/2022
Funding facilitated weekly counselling groups for new mums, and monthly workshops in nature, to help improve the mental wellbeing of women.
J J Charitable Trust - Core costs
£5,000 15/02/2022
Towards core costs
Sussex Community Foundation - 'Mummyshock 10-week postnatal group' and 'Women's Wellbeing Days'
£10,000 26/01/2022
Funding was provided to run new 'Mummyshock' 10-week postnatal groups for women who have had babies during the Covid-19 pandemic, and contribute towards 6 monthly women's therapeutic wellbeing days.
National Lottery Community Fund - Parenting in the Pandemic- mental health support for parents
£10,000 15/10/2021
The funding will be used to develop two new mothers groups to support parents with mental health. These will be a Mum +2 group which will be a new counselling group for mums who have had their second baby during the Pandemic and a second group that ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Release Counselling and Therapy for Women
£3,000 23/09/2021
12
towards one year's running costs of an organisation providing counselling and peer support services for vulnerable and marginalised women in Brighton and Hove.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mum's Wellbeing Day Workshops in Nature
£2,500 17/08/2021
The funding is for three wellbeing day workshops for pandemic mums in-person and in nature. The project aims to facilitate new mums to feel more connected and enable them to form peer support groups.
Sport England - TGC CF Release Womens Wellbeing Days
£7,050 02/06/2021
12
This project will create monthly 'wellbeing workshops' offering women and girls holistic support including exercise, creativity, and self-help activities.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£4,000 28/04/2021
towards support and counselling groups for ‘lockdown mums’ with post-natal depression and anxiety (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - Mummyshock mental health project for lockdown mums
£7,860 29/10/2020
6
The funding will be used to deliver online counselling support to new mothers experiencing mental ill health. The project aims to build their confidence resilience and reduce isolation during Covid-19.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

  • CAROLINE ELISABETH TOWNEND Appointed: 2021
  • FELICITY PURCHASE (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • ISIL ALTINKAYA Appointed: 2024
  • LAURA HAYLEIGH YAFFE Appointed: 2022
  • LYDIA O'CONNOR Appointed: 2024
  • NICOLA KUHRT Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/12/2020, number: 1192772
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
2 returns made; all on time
Main office

COMMUNITY BASE
113 QUEENS ROAD
BRIGHTON
BN1 3XG

Objectives

TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH OF WOMEN (AND THEIR FAMILIES WHERE NECESSARY), LIVING IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH, BUT NOT NECESSARILY RESTRICTED TO: PROVIDING AN AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE COUNSELLING SERVICE, AND BY THE TRAINING OF INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS IN THE PROVISION OF SUCH COUNSELLING AND THERAPEUTIC SUPPORT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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