Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

HUGGARD 

The relief of poverty in particular in the care and treatment and provision of day care facilities for persons who are homeless or suffering from psychological or physical infirmity or who by reason of adverse circumstances are thereby in need of help.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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£3,373£3,513£-140£9£3,698£3,03810.458120
31/03/22£2,647£2,694£-47£9£3,933£3,16814.15745
31/03/21£2,511£2,428£82£9£3,943£3,15515.64745
31/03/20£2,427£2,532£-106£7£3,698£3,02214.34645
31/03/19£2,090£2,257£-167£5£3,891£3,23817.24250
31/03/18£2,039£2,063£-24£5£4,040£3,29719.2430
31/03/17£1,971£2,152£-180£4£4,068£3,36418.8480
31/03/16*£2,080£2,164£-84£2£4,177£3,45119.1480
31/03/15£1,980£2,084£-104£13£4,290£3,53020.3480
31/03/14£2,065£2,175£-110£19£4,367£3,59919.9480
31/03/13£4,088£2,472£1,616£16£4,444£3,58917.4480
31/03/12£2,462£1,795£667£13£2,772£2,01313.5590
31/03/11£1,968£1,780£188£14£2,108£1,85612.5540
31/03/10£1,739£1,600£140£11£1,906£1,71412.9450
31/03/09£1,637£1,532£105£8£1,661£1,49711.7480
31/03/08£1,484£1,452£33£12£1,648£1,49012.3420
31/03/07*£1,405£1,290£115£16£1,661£1,49413.9420
31/03/06£1,362£1,221£141£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,222£1,150£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,124£1,004£119£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 25%
Liabilities/Income: 36%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 10.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
Established: 34 years

www.huggard.org.uk

post@huggard.org.uk

02920642000

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cardiff,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 58 employees
  • 120 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Huggard Development Hub
£10,000 25/10/2022
Huggard in Cardiff will redevelop their intervention centre to provide support services for people in housing emergencies. The Centre is central to supporting their work with homeless clients. They ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Freemasons COVID-19 Community Fund
£25,000 03/12/2020
Grant to fund the replacement of the charity's Outreach and Development vehicle. The replacement will be a Vauxhall Sharan 7 seater or equivalent. This vehicle gives space for both the transportation ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Huggard Counselling Service
£48,204 02/07/2020
12
Huggard has received a £48204 grant to provide counselling support for people experiencing homelessness in Cardiff to help address the additional challenges presented by COVID-19. Mae Huggard wedi ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Huggard
£112,700 14/03/2012
36
toward three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Substance Misuse Development Officer at a project in Cardiff for people who are homeless
National Lottery Community Fund - Huggard Training, Development and Enterprise Suite
£470,000 25/05/2010
24
The project will provide a training, development and enterprise suite as part of a new one stop shop homelessness complex providing homeless people with the skills and confidence to move towards ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 28-78
  • DR DAVID WILLIAMS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Consultant Doctor. Child And Adolescent Psychiarty
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/06/1990, number: 703074
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/06/1990, number: 02509188
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; AR16: 1 days late, AR07: 154 days late,
Main office

Huggard Centre
Huggard Buildings
Hansen Street
Cardiff
CF10 5DW

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR IN THE CARE AND TREATMENT AND PROVISION OF DAY CARE FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL INFIRMITY OR WHO BY REASON OF ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE THEREBY IN NEED OF HELP.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE CARDIFF

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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