Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

THE BRIGITTE TRUST 

To offer emotional support and practical help to individuals with life-threatening illness and to their carers and families.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 40 years

www.brigittetrust.org

Admin@brigittetrust.com

01306881816

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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£203£249£-46n/an/an/an/an/a108
31/03/22£177£207£-30n/an/an/an/an/a168
31/03/21£260£154£107n/an/an/an/an/a189
31/03/20£249£145£104n/an/an/an/an/a118
31/03/19£158£176£-17n/an/an/an/an/a116
31/03/18£154£204£-50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£223£193£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£169£192£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£222£165£57£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£178£168£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£148£149£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£159£127£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£135£110£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£132£128£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£132£158£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£124£142£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£102£120£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£104£101£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£112£98£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£90£85£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 108 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
Community Foundation for Surrey£50,000
DCMS£30,000
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,709
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Co-Operative Group£4,864
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Brigitte Trust
£1,851 21/10/2023
Our bereavement support group programme provides a safe, trusted and structured environment for people in Surrey to cope with their loss and grief.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bereavement support groups
£6,320 15/08/2022
The funding will be used to continue providing a bereavement support group programme. The project aims to provide focused support encouraging mutual support of attendees to share experiences and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer training to support people with a life-threatening diagnosis in Surrey
£7,020 18/06/2021
The group will use the funding to train volunteers so that they can deliver outreach and befriending activities for people with life limiting illnesses. This will help vulnerable people who have been ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Brigitte Trust
£3,013 24/10/2020
We would like to continue supporting people across Surrey who have a life-threatening diagnosis.
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Isolated Older people
£25,000 03/09/2020
5
Funding towards the essential running costs of a charity, that works across the whole of Surrey, and helps support people with life-threatening illnesses and their families, during the Covid-19 ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000 03/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£20,000 29/07/2020
"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
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - Mental wellbeing
£5,000 03/04/2020
Costs towards a Telephone Befriending Service addressing loneliness and isolation during the Coronavirus outbreak
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 27/12/2019
Home visiting for people facing a life-threatening diagnosis in Surrey.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Core costs over 2 years
£20,000 01/10/2019
11
Contribution to 2 years essential running costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brigitte Trust
£20,000 30/09/2019
24
towards two years' running costs of a charity supporting people with life threatening conditions, and their families, living in Surrey
National Lottery Community Fund - Dying in hospital need not be lonely
£6,369 22/08/2019
12
Dying in hospital need not be lonely
Community Foundation for Surrey - Volunteer support group meetings
£6,000 24/09/2018
8
Volunteer support groups for volunteers who support families where there is a life-threatening illness.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Brigitte Trust
£3,044 29/11/2017
We need to raise funds for our nine week volunteer training programme which begins in January.
Community Foundation for Surrey - New Volunteer
£4,600 09/05/2017
2
To support the costs of monthly volunteer supervision groups and a programme of recruitment and training for 15-20 new volunteers who want to offer emotional support and practical help at home to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brigitte Trust
£5,000 09/06/2016
12
towards one year's salary of the Service & Development Manager at a project providing support at home to people with life-threatening conditions in Surrey and West Sussex
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brigitte Trust
£5,270 11/09/2014
towards one year's salary of the Service & Development Manager at a project that provides support at home to people with life-threatening conditions in Surrey and West Sussex
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brigitte Trust
£6,120 05/12/2012
towards one year's running costs of a charity in Surrey that provides support to people with life threatening conditions and their families
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 58-71
  • JAN WAY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/03/1984, number: 288923
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/01/1984, number: 01782730
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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; AR10: 15 days late, AR06: 3 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Brigitte Trust
Abinger House
Church Street
DORKING
Surrey
RH4 1DF

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH CHARITABLE WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES DATED 12TH JANUARY 1984).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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