Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

PSS (UK) 

PSS services are designed to plug the gaps and provide on the ground support to a wide array of people. We recognise when people are in need and find new and practical ways to get the most from life. We work with elderly and disabled people in the community, with families caught up in the criminal justice system or in need, and in a preventative way with families and people at risk
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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£20,094£19,929£165£1£9,877£8,9865.4279104
31/03/22£19,421£18,855£566£1£9,490£8,4905.428787
31/03/21£18,569£17,732£836£1£8,002£7,0994.831461
31/03/20£18,222£17,724£498£4£7,970£7,2484.934983
31/03/19£16,853£16,380£473£4£7,744£6,9335.133760
31/03/18£14,620£14,318£302£4£5,380£4,6903.93460
31/03/17£13,809£13,594£215£4£5,325£4,5954.13820
31/03/16£13,401£13,849£-448£4£4,636£4,0053.53850
31/03/15£13,725£13,619£106£63£6,127£5,4224.83910
31/03/14£14,750£14,200£550£108£5,915£5,2534.43980
31/03/13£13,949£13,855£95£37£5,381£4,5493.94000
31/03/12£14,424£14,237£187£69£5,061£4,2973.64180
31/03/11£15,098£15,216£-118£102£5,402£4,6273.64560
31/03/10£15,700£15,487£213£109£5,352£4,4663.54250
31/03/09£13,646£13,806£-159£127£4,499£3,9513.44020
31/03/08£13,550£13,273£277£99£5,296£4,5844.13930
31/03/07£12,432£12,072£361£101£3,760£2,8452.83860
31/03/06£12,534£12,353£181£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£12,444£12,259£185£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£12,210£12,122£88£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 5.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 61 years
(98 years as a company)

www.psspeople.com

hello@pss.org.uk

01517025540

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other individual and family services
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 279 employees
  • 104 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£169,431
Department of Health£164,399
BBC Children in Need£99,126
Ministry of Justice£32,593
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Person Shaped Support
£99,126 10/08/2021
This project will deliver 1 to 1 sessions, fun activities and advocacy for children who have a parent or close relative in prison in Merseyside. The activities will result in improved wellbeing, ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to PSS (Special Grants Committee)
£6,000 24/06/2021
Towards the Special Grant Service - funding essential items
National Lottery Community Fund - The Ruby Service
£79,931 19/03/2021
The project aims to provide support to victims of domestic abuse. Funding for the group will enable them to meet an increase in demand for their services and continue to provide much needed support.
Ministry of Justice - Women's Community Sector Funding
£32,593 02/02/2021
The womens community sector grants scheme offers £2.5 million in funding for core costs to promote greater financial stability throughout the sector.
Department of Health - PSS (UK) Ltd
£164,399 28/08/2020
Grant funding to members of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance for priority project work in support of DHSC, NHS England and Improvement and PHE strategic priorities.
National Lottery Community Fund - PSS CV19
£89,500 15/05/2020
8
The organisation aims to support adults with learning or physical difficulties people in and around the criminal justice system and vulnerable families. Funding will enable the group to continue to ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to PSS (UK) Ltd
£36,000 04/10/2018
Using our centenary to explore and share the story of PSS and its people
John Moores Foundation - Grant to PSS (Special Grants Committee)
£6,800 01/09/2018
Towards grants for families and people in need
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Person Shaped Support
£109,932 02/03/2018
36
The Prisoner's Children Service will deliver a mixture of sessions including one to ones, group activities and advocacy work with children and young people who have a parent in prison. Young people ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Person Shaped Support
£29,331 13/11/2017
36
This project will offer psychological therapy to unaccompanied asylum seeking children aged 10-18. The project will improve emotional wellbeing, increase positive relationships and help children and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent and Baby Wellness Service
£480,000 28/06/2017
36
This is a continuation and expansion of a family support service by PSS (UK) for parents experiencing pre and post-natal anxiety and depression in Liverpool. People will be supported through anxiety ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Impact
£402,845 04/05/2016
60
A project to support disadvantaged families in Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton in order to improve family life, reduce drug and alcohol misuse and re-offending. The programme will provide personalised ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Ruby Project
£369,207 25/09/2015
36
A project to support women experiencing domestic violence in Liverpool, it will provide crisis support and offer intensive support such as creating a safety plan including child safety, accommodation ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to PSS
£108,900 12/06/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Family Worker at a project in Liverpool supporting families recovering from the consequences of drug and alcohol misuse and imprisonment
National Lottery Community Fund - Ordinary Homes - Extraordinary Lives
£100,000 20/06/2012
36
The project will benefit young offenders aged 16 to 17 the majority of whom will have mental health or addiction issues. The project will develop and implement an Adult Placement Model where ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Tegan Project - 'Playing with Exercise'
£249,491 25/01/2012
36
The project will deliver health focussed play sessions for pre-school age children and their parents/carers in 7 locations across Denbighshire. The sessions will introduce and educate families about ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Impact Plus
£116,312 13/09/2011
37
This project will support families where a loved one is in prison and parents are misusing drugs and alcohol. It will provide an outreach educational workshops on drug and alcohol awareness, healthy ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 24-63
  • DR KIM HEYES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Research Associate
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/10/1963, number: 224469
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/05/1926, number: 00214077
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
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
  • Investing charity funds 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; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from LIVERPOOL MENTAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM on 09/04/2021
Main office

PSS
Eleanor Rathbone House
Connect Business Village
24 Derby Road
Liverpool
L5 9PR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY ASSISTING INDIVIDUALS IN NEED TO LIVE AND / OR MANAGE THEIR NEEDS MORE INDEPENDENTLY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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