Finance Score: -11

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 2

Spending falling: -1
Dormant: -10
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -12

PAC-UK LTD

To provide high quality, innovative services that support and make a difference to all affected by adoption and permanency: children and families, adults who were adopted/placed as children, birth family members and professionals. Our aim is to relieve distress, strengthen family relationships and inform and improve professional practice in relation to adoption and other permanent placements.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
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
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
This charity appears to be dormant

Established: 38 years

www.pac-uk.org

info@family-action.org.uk

020 7284 0555

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

This Charity appears to be dormant

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		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/22		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20	*	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19		£1,224	£2,765	£-1,540	£27	£0	£0	n/a	59	59
31/03/18		£2,621	£2,680	£-59	£27	£721	£661	3	64	0
31/03/17	*	£2,600	£2,559	£41	£27	£780	£725	3.4	43	0
31/03/16		£2,155	£2,128	£27	£17	£739	£739	4.2	50	0
31/03/15		£1,513	£1,493	£20	£80	£713	£702	5.6	36	0
31/03/14		£966	£936	£31	£60	£692	£659	8.5	23	0
31/03/13	*	£845	£823	£22	£45	£662	£654	9.5	20	0
31/03/12		£856	£899	£-43	£179	£640	£625	8.3	21	0
31/03/11	*	£681	£722	£-42	£28	£682	£626	10.4	12	0
31/03/10	*	£736	£736	£0	£25	£724	£679	11.1	12	0
31/03/09		£961	£689	£272	£26	£724	£421	7.3	12	0
31/03/08		£832	£776	£56	£22	£453	£313	4.8	12	0
31/03/07		£845	£750	£95	£17	£397	£278	4.4	12	0
31/03/06		£815	£809	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£810	£694	£116	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£543	£536	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Post Adoption Centre
£10,000	22/11/2018 12	This project will provide telephone support to families with adopted children who are struggling with their child's behaviour, to ensure the children are in a safe and supported environment, improve ....more This project will provide telephone support to families with adopted children who are struggling with their child's behaviour, to ensure the children are in a safe and supported environment, improve relationships and help to improve performance at school
National Lottery Community Fund - Rebuilding child/parent relationships
£10,000	26/10/2018 12	The project will recruit and train experienced, adoptive parents as volunteer parent consultants. The aim is to prevent family relationship breakdowns.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to PAC-UK
£10,000	23/10/2017	Office refurbishment for a charity in London which works with young people affected by adoption and being in care
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	18/07/2017	Adoption is for life: ensuring essential support for adopted people and all those around them
Dulverton Trust - Expanding Adoption Support Services
£35,000	15/02/2017	Expanding Adoption Support Services
City Bridge Trust - Grant to PAC-UK
£106,000	24/11/2016 36	£106,000 over three years (£34,800; £35,300; £35,900) towards 80% of the inclusive salary costs of a Children & Families Practice Manager
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to PAC-UK
£50,000	29/09/2016 24	Towards a Leeds based Education and Wellness Worker supporting adopted children and their families.
National Lottery Community Fund - CASA post adoption support SIB
£99,313	27/11/2015 12	The funding will be used to develop a social impact bond (SIB) to support to parents and children considered as being harder to place before and after the adoption process, with the intention of ....more The funding will be used to develop a social impact bond (SIB) to support to parents and children considered as being harder to place before and after the adoption process, with the intention of reducing the numbers of adoptive placements that breakdown. The four month grant will fund financial modelling, service development, market testing, legal costs and other technical support. The development of the SIB has the support of both the Yorkshire & Humber Adoption consortium and the London Adoption Board.
Dulverton Trust - merging with AAY (After Adoption Yorkshire)
£30,000	11/06/2014	merging with AAY (After Adoption Yorkshire)
National Lottery Community Fund - ADOPTION - 'living life to the full'
£468,258	13/07/2011 60	This project is to develop the existing services of the Post Adoption Centre (PAC) in four areas; child and family therapeutic service, telephone service, schools and training. The project aims to ....more This project is to develop the existing services of the Post Adoption Centre (PAC) in four areas; child and family therapeutic service, telephone service, schools and training. The project aims to help children who have been adopted and who need therapeutic help to alleviate early trauma, adoptive parents and families who may feel isolated and be in need of therapeutic work to maintain family stability and school staff who feel ill-equipped to deal with the problems specific to this group.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:

DAVID CHARLES HOLMES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Executive, Other trusteeships: THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION, FRIENDSHIP WORKS, CHILDREN ENGLAND, BUILDING A NEW DIRECTION LIMITED, PORTSMOUTH ABUSE AND RAPE COUNSELLING SERVICE,

FAMILY ACTION Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeships: FRIENDSHIP WORKS, BUILDING A NEW DIRECTION LIMITED,

IAN RAYMOND HARGRAVE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: FRIENDSHIP WORKS, BUILDING A NEW DIRECTION LIMITED, PORTSMOUTH ABUSE AND RAPE COUNSELLING SERVICE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/09/1986, number: 294998
Registered at Companies House on 23/07/1986, number: 02040322

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR20: 11 days late, AR17: 0 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 60 days late,

Main office

Family Action
34 Wharf Road
LONDON
N1 7GR

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF, AND TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO, CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, WHO ARE PLACED OR TO BE PLACED, OR WHO WERE PLACED, FOR ADOPTION OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED OR IN RECEIPT OF, OR RECEIVED, SIMILAR CARE, AND THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS OR THOSE OTHERWISE WITH RESPONSIBILITY, OR PROSPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, FOR THEM (THE BENEFICIARIES);TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE BENEFICIARIES, AND TO RELIEVE ANY SUFFERING AND DISADVANTAGE EXPERIENCED BY THEM;TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE PROFESSIONALS AND OTHERS WHO WORK WITH, PROVIDE ADVICE TO OR CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUPPORT OF THE BENEFICIARIES AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IN RELATION TO THE NEEDS OF THE BENEFICIARIES; ANDTO FURTHER SUCH ANCILLARY AND INCIDENTAL EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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