Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

THE SADIE CENTRE

We run over 80 classes each week teaching techniques drawn from complementary approaches to health alongside a complementary therapy clinic, a large counselling service, a Hertfordshire-wide, award-winning wellbeing programme for older people with mobility problems or who are living with long-term conditions and a programme introducing Mindfulness into local schools.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/07/23£693£759£-66£1£36£120.21326
31/07/22£707£691£17£0£101£510.91321
31/07/21£589£608£-19£0£85£380.761
31/07/20£715£697£19£3£104£621.1130
31/07/19*£812£790£22£7£86£711.1126
31/07/18£721£763£-42£5£63£540.9130
31/07/17£691£749£-58£3£105£971.6130
31/07/16£689£685£4£1£163£1472.6130
31/07/15£755£596£159£3£159£1523.1130
31/07/14£987£575£412£8£-1£-11-0.2130
31/07/13*£1,025£609£415£12£-413£-431-8.5130
31/07/12*£547£693£-146£9£-828£-879-15.2130
31/07/11£632£762£-130£25£-665£-755-11.960
31/07/10*£612£755£-142£22£-535£-627-1090
31/07/09£504£652£-148£5£-393£-480-8.880
31/07/08*£539£538£1£3£-137£-231-5.180
31/07/07*£549£506£44£4£-138£-191-4.560
31/07/06*£486£553£-66n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/05*£504£479£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/04*£475£472£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 75%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 32%
Reserves/Spending: 0.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 38 years

www.sadiecentre.org

healthyliving@sadiecentre.org

01462 678 804

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Mindfulness in Schools
£4,000 07/10/2020
Grant to Letchworth Centre For Healthy Living
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,000 06/10/2020
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Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Online support for wellbeing of socially isolated older people with mobility problems or who are living with long-term conditions
£4,820 11/05/2020
Grant to Letchworth Centre For Healthy Living
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Positive Movement
£4,684 10/09/2019
Grant to Letchworth Centre For Healthy Living

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • COLIN WOODS Appointed: 2023
  • HELEN OLIVER Appointed: 2018
  • MARK HANNA Appointed: 2022
  • NICHOLAS DAVIES Appointed: 2020
  • STEVEN FRANK GIBBS (Chair) Appointed: 2015
  • STUART PAUL IZZARD Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/10/1986, number: 295219
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 99 days late, AR13: 39 days late, AR12: 158 days late, AR10: 64 days late, AR08: 116 days late, AR07: 97 days late, AR06: 32 days late, AR05: 92 days late, AR04: 40 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from GROWING PEOPLE on 23/10/2022
Main office

The Sadie Centre
Rosehill Hospital
Hitchin Road
LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY
SG6 3NA

Objectives

(I) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH. (II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN HOLISTIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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