Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 3

Strong growth: +2
Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 3

FIRST STOP CENTRE (MID-ESSEX BRANCH)

To relieve the condition of disadvantaged persons in mid-Essex experiencing difficulties with homelessness, joblessness, substance misuse, physical and mental health problems, learning difficulties by the provision of support services to assist them in maintaining normal relationships with and within their community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Established: 34 years

firststopcentre.org.uk

Contact@firststopcentre.onmicrosoft.com

01376 346535

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	£82	£103	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22	£156	£95	£61	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/03/21	£123	£50	£73	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/20	£79	£54	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/19	£84	£59	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18	£40	£55	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£70	£52	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£58	£42	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£34	£36	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£37	£16	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£13	£20	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£37	£25	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£23	£29	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£43	£39	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£48	£56	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£45	£55	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£59	£65	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£57	£51	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£66	£52	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£39	£49	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 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
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to First Stop Centre
£10,000	14/05/2021	for staff costs to increase capacity of an organisation so they can identify and address issues facing individuals in Braintree due to the COVID19 pandemic
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to First Stop Centre
£15,000	01/04/2021	towards staff costs of a community support group in Braintree seeing an increase in demand during the COVID19 pandemic
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£21,906	03/07/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to First Stop Centre
£7,500	08/04/2020	to sustain an organisation supporting vulnerable people in Braintree during the COVID19 pandemic
Essex Community Foundation - online safety for the disadvantaged and vulnerable
£4,500	14/02/2020 11	To provide online safety courses for disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the Braintree area
Essex Community Foundation - Resilience Workshops and courses
£5,000	19/02/2019 11	To help run resilience workshops and courses for vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals from the Braintree area
Essex Community Foundation - Anger Workshops and Confidence Groups
£5,000	07/02/2018 11	Towards the cost of running anger management and confidence building workshops for vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals from the Braintree area
Essex Community Foundation - Extend provision of signposting and IAG at First Stop Centre
£9,960	04/11/2016 11	To increase the provision of Information, advice, guidance and signposting through the extension of staff hours in Braintree

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

EMMA CLAIRE REID Appointed: 2005

MOIA THOROGOOD Appointed: 2004, Other trusteeships: FRIENDS OF BRAINTREE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, GLEBE COMMUNITY HALL,

MICHELLE LEE (Chair) Appointed: 2021

TRACEY RADLEY Appointed: 2014

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/04/1990, number: 803170

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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

Main office

First Stop Centre
29 Bocking End
BRAINTREE
CM7 9AE

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE CONDITION OF DISADVANTAGED PERSONS IN MID-ESSEX EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTIES WITH HOMELESSNESS, JOBLESSNESS, SUBSTANCE MISUSE, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND RELATED PROBLEMS, LEARNING DISABILITIES BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES FOR SUCH PERSONS TO ASSIST THEM IN MAINTAINING NORMAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY RESIDE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

MID ESSEX

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