Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

RELATE 

Relate delivers via a national network a wide range of services to individuals and corporate bodies. Activities include: relationship counselling, sex therapy, family counselling, services for young people, mediation services, counselling in primary care settings, telephone counselling, Reveal online relationship assessment service, national email counselling service, education and learning, etc
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 62 years
(79 years as a company)

www.relate.org.uk

Janine.Irwin@relate.org.uk

020 7554 2882

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£7,583£7,295£288£0£1,567£1,4912.5303130
31/03/22£7,281£7,242£39£0£1,279£1,0631.8322130
31/03/21£8,423£8,363£60£0£1,240£1,0591.5379134
31/03/20£8,160£9,355£-1,195£0£1,180£1,0031.3448154
31/03/19*£10,153£9,655£498£0£2,375£2,0642.6560100
31/03/18*£5,790£5,260£530£0£1,877£1,7173.9980
31/03/17£4,690£4,932£-242£0£1,347£1,1862.9780
31/03/16£4,688£4,974£-286£0£1,589£1,4903.6710
31/03/15£5,549£5,444£105£147£1,892£1,7513.9620
31/03/14£5,478£5,594£-116£135£1,787£1,7273.7620
31/03/13£4,084£4,232£-148£101£1,903£1,8035.1650
31/03/12*£3,794£3,965£-171£75£2,051£1,9375.9710
31/03/11£4,148£4,291£-143£92£2,222£2,1606690
31/03/10£5,588£5,456£132£79£2,365£2,3015.1720
31/03/09£4,264£4,489£-225£93£2,233£1,9965.3760
31/03/08£5,431£3,792£1,639£85£2,459£2,3727.5650
31/03/07*£3,602£3,400£202£68£1,210£7072.5510
31/03/06*£5,038£5,085£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£5,061£5,064£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£4,753£4,695£58£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 39%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Germany, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 303 employees
  • 130 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£585,047
DCMS£492,729
BBC Children in Need£219,264
Department for Work and Pensions£137,883
Seafarers UK£115,472
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£33,333 10/02/2023
"The Armed Forces Covenant aims to: 1) the Armed Forces Covenant defines the enduring, general principles that should govern the relationship between the Nation, the Government and the Armed ....more
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£33,333 10/02/2023
"The Armed Forces Covenant aims to: 1) the Armed Forces Covenant defines the enduring, general principles that should govern the relationship between the Nation, the Government and the Armed ....more
Harpur Trust - Grant to Relate
£4,750 14/09/2021
Relate Bedford and Luton Bursary Fund
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Relate
£30,257 30/07/2021
This project will deliver counselling sessions to children and young people experiencing family related challenges. Sessions will result in greater emotional resilience, healthier relationships and ....more
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Grants from endowment fund
£66,480 28/06/2021
11
Grant to Relate Oxfordshire
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Relate
£93,895 18/12/2020
This project will provide counselling sessions face to face and online to children needing mental health support. It will help them to form healthy relationships, manage feelings and emotions and ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Relate
£92,412 18/12/2020
This project will provide one to one counselling support for children and young people with wellbeing issues. The activities will result in reduced distress, increased ability to cope with difficult ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£492,729 24/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Relate
£2,700 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund new computers for staff to provide secure online counselling to young people with mental health issues, isolated at home due to Covid-19. Young people will improve ....more
Seafarers UK - Grant to Relate
£57,736 02/04/2020
Grant funding to provide relationship support and counselling for 120 clients over a 12 month period, providing free access to a range of face to face and digital relationship support.
Seafarers UK - Grant to Relate
£57,736 02/04/2020
Grant funding for relationship support and counselling for 120 clients over a 12 month period, providing free access to a range of face to face and digital relationship support.
Department for Work and Pensions - Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) - Challenge Fund Grant (2020-2021)
£137,883 01/04/2020
Payments to 3rd party supplier to deliver a Parental Conflict Challenge Fund to support Reducing Parental Conflict Programme (2018)
National Lottery Community Fund - Laptops for Digital counselling
£9,955 03/01/2020
9
The project will use funding to purchase new laptops to expand the counselling service and increase digital engagement. The project aims to enable people to take a leading role on the support they ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Connected Relationships
£499,647 20/08/2019
35
Connected Relationships
National Lottery Community Fund - Time to Talk
£75,445 24/07/2019
15
The funding will allow an existing counselling service for children and young people across Wiltshire to continue running for another year. The service specifically supports children aged 6-11 ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) - Challenge Fund Grant - Relate
£154,160 01/04/2019
Payments to 3rd party supplier to deliver a Parental Conflict Challenge Fund to support Reducing Parental Conflict Programme (2018)
DCMS - Relate
£42,890 01/04/2019
The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
DCMS - Relate
£96,720 01/04/2018
The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Relate
£79,572 02/03/2018
36
This project will provide a counselling service to young people experiencing emotional distress. It will help them increase their personal skills, improve their coping mechanisms and improve their ....more
DCMS - Relate
£60,390 18/09/2017
The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Relate
£27,315 10/08/2017
36
This project will provide parental contact sessions for children and young people. They will feel more secure, improve their trusted relationships, and improve their self-belief.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Relate
£110,000 06/08/2017
36
This project will provide free counselling sessions on a one-to-one basis to 386 CYPs in rural areas including Grimsby and Boston to form healthy relationships, manage feelings and emotions and ....more
Comic Relief - Mum's The World
£188,104 28/09/2016
24
New mothers in South Wales will benefit from early intervention in this collaboration between statutory Health Visitors and Relate Cymru. They will identify relationship problems early and offer ....more
Dulverton Trust - Emotional Readiness: Separation Dispute Management
£21,611 08/06/2016
Emotional Readiness: Separation Dispute Management
Comic Relief - Tech for Good - Separating Fairly: groundbreaking online dispute resolution service for separating families
£34,150 15/07/2015
6
Relate plans to trial the first Online Family Dispute Resolution service (England and Wales). It aims to improve outcomes for children affected by family separation, helping to resolve disputes more ....more
Dulverton Trust - core operational costs
£23,000 15/02/2012
core operational costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 36-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/09/1962, number: 207314
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/03/1945, number: 00394221
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR23: 9 days late, AR19: 5 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR12: 1 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR06: 4 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from RELATE WEST AND MID KENT on 20/12/2019
  • Asset transfer in from RELATE EAST KENT LTD on 18/11/2020
  • Asset transfer in from RELATE BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON on 29/01/2021
  • Asset transfer in from RELATE OXFORDSHIRE on 29/01/2021
  • Asset transfer in from RELATE, BRIGHTON, HOVE, EASTBOURNE, WORTHING AND DISTRICTS on 15/02/2021
Main office

THE GABLES
3 ST MARYS ROAD
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
HP2 5HL

Objectives

THE FEDERATION IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS:(1)TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE BENEFITS OF SECURE COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE EMOTIONAL, SEXUAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS WHICH IS DERIVED FROM COMMITTED RELATIONSHIPS;(2)TO SEEK TO ENHANCE, THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN BY:(A)INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE BENEFIT OF COMMITTED COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY LIFE; AND (B)WORKING TO PREVENT POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAKDOWN OF SUCH RELATIONSHIPS;(3)TO PROVIDE COUNSELLING, ADVICE, EDUCATION, GUIDANCE AND RELIEF TO ADULTS AND/OR CHILDREN IN RELATION TO ANY ASPECT OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE OR WORK WHICH:(A)MAY PREJUDICE THEIR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL WELL BEING; OR(B)INFLUENCE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THEIR PRESENT OR FUTURE FAMILY OR COUPLE RELATIONSHIP;(4)TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND(5)TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO ALL OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS AND TO MAKE THE RESULTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.”

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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