Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 12

Future income +5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 19

ASPIRATIONS DAY PROGRAM

Aspirations Program offers a range of abstinence-based recovery support services for people affected directly or indirectly by addiction(s). This includes a structured, non-residential, non-religious program led by trauma-informed trained staff, support for family members, specialist support for women who sell sex in a gender-informed environment, and support for young people aged 18-30.

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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:

There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/08/23?		£307,600	£264,097	£43,503
31/05/22		£156,389	£120,778	£35,611

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 3 years

www.aspirationsprogram.co.uk

marie@aspirationsprogram.org.uk

01702 463592

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Essex, Southend-on-sea,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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	£117,000
Tudor Trust	£105,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation	£75,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£45,000
The Grocers' Charity	£10,000
Essex Community Foundation	£5,000
Co-Operative Group	£4,045

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - Aspirations Program
£5,000	26/04/2024	To support street outreach programme in a red light district to speak to women who sell sex. Women are offered hygiene essentials, snacks, and little luxuries. Building positive relationships makes ....more To support street outreach programme in a red light district to speak to women who sell sex. Women are offered hygiene essentials, snacks, and little luxuries. Building positive relationships makes women feel secure enough to attend their drop-in centres.
Essex Community Foundation - The Aspirations Program CIO
£5,000	08/02/2024	to help with the operating costs of a treatment, support and recovery centre for women working in the sex industry in Southend
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000	08/12/2023 24	Aspirations Program
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Aspirations Programme
£75,000	05/07/2023 36	Unrestricted grant over 3 years towards the core costs of Aspirations Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - Aspirations Programme
£117,000	15/07/2022	The project is using funding towards helping more people make the necessary steps to improve their lives so that they can stay substance free and start to thrive. The aim is to strengthen ....more The project is using funding towards helping more people make the necessary steps to improve their lives so that they can stay substance free and start to thrive. The aim is to strengthen organisational capacity to develop their services as well as develop a strong evidence base for the effectiveness of their approach in helping people abstain from drugs or alcohol and seeing women exit from selling sex.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Aspirations Programme
£5,000	29/04/2022	towards programme costs for their outreach work with women who are living in tents and involved in sex work. They find emergency and permanent accommodation and addiction recovery support.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	04/04/2022	Aspirations Programme
Tudor Trust - Grant to Aspirations Programme
£105,000	18/03/2022 36	over three years towards salaries and running costs at an organisation supporting people in recovery in Southend-on-Sea
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Aspirations Day Programme / Carrie's Outreach
£4,045	23/10/2021	We would like to provide furniture, arts and crafts for group work to support people into education and back into full-time employment, outreach bags for sex workers and funds for residential rehab.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CHRISTINE JACKIE EMERTON Appointed: 2023

GRANT DARREN SELBY Appointed: 2023

JOHN PHILIP GOSNELL Appointed: 2023

SONJA PEWTER Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/08/2021, number: 1195424

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

573 SOUTHCHURCH ROAD
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
ESSEX
SS1 2PN

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:THE RELIEF OF NEED AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN RECOVERY FROM HARMFUL ADDICTIONS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES TO FULLY SUPPORT THEM WITH THEIR RECOVERY, AND RE-INTEGRATE WITH SOCIETY.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.