Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 7

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 7

FOREST PULSE

The charity supports children and young people with disabilities and their families/carers who live in the Forest of Dean area. Support, guidance, information and sign posting are provided for parents/carers. A wide range of out of school social, leisure, sport and recreational activities are provided for children and young people with disabilities, whenever possible in an intergrated setting.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly female

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

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	*	£223	£214	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/22		£151	£149	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/21		£186	£170	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	17
31/03/20		£165	£206	£-41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/19		£150	£204	£-53	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	36
31/03/18		£213	£193	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£283	£200	£82	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£215	£203	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£151	£156	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£121	£163	£-42	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£179	£148	£31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£152	£152	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£126	£147	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£154	£124	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£150	£104	£45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£63	£78	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£73	£73	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£75	£70	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£67	£83	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£88	£73	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 35 years

www.forestpulse.co.uk

admin@forestpulse.co.uk

01594826357

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Recreation

GiG Classification

Services for families & carers

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Gloucestershire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
14 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£200,084
Barnwood Trust	£46,863
DCMS	£35,135
Masonic Trust	£1,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Barnwood Trust - Strategic Partnerships
£30,000	12/10/2021	Support children with disabilities and their families
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£1,500	13/07/2021	Summer activity club
National Lottery Community Fund - Forest Pulse Continuation Funding
£200,084	26/03/2021 59	The organisation will use the funding over five years to support their ongoing work with disabled children and young people aged 4 - 25 and their families/carers.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000	12/01/2021	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000	02/10/2020	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 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 and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£30,135	23/07/2020	"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."
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£15,363	22/07/2020	Activities for disabled children
National Lottery Community Fund - Forest Pulse
£256,941	26/08/2015 35	This project supports disabled children and young people up to the age of 26, and their families, through a youth club offering a range of activities and trips to help build confidence and ....more This project supports disabled children and young people up to the age of 26, and their families, through a youth club offering a range of activities and trips to help build confidence and transferable skills. Young people decide their own programme of activities including sport, music, dance, cookery and cinema trips. A summer activity club also gives young people new experiences. The project helps provide respite for parents and carers, and offers mutual support, information, training and advice.
True Colours Trust - Afterschool and weekend activities for disabled children.
£5,000	16/12/2014	Afterschool and weekend activities for disabled children.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Forest Pulse
£20,000	12/06/2014 24	towards two years' salary of the Activity Manager at a project providing activities, support and information for disabled children and their families in the Forest of Dean
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Forest Pulse
£16,000	28/03/2014	Forest Pulse supports disabled children and young people and their families. The Activity Manager co-ordinates the weekly activities such as swimming, youth clubs, dance and boccia so that disabled ....more Forest Pulse supports disabled children and young people and their families. The Activity Manager co-ordinates the weekly activities such as swimming, youth clubs, dance and boccia so that disabled young people can choose what they want to do.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a four week summer playscheme
£1,000	12/06/2008	Towards a four week summer playscheme for children and young people with disabilities and their siblings in Gloucestershire.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

HELEN THERESA BAKER

LORRAINE STYLES Appointed: 2021

PAMELA JONES Appointed: 2023

ROSIE POWELL Appointed: 2022

SIMON BROWN Appointed: 2023

VANESSA THULBON Appointed: 2021

VICTORIA WALTERS (Chair) Appointed: 2021

VIKKI FELLOWS Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/01/1989, number: 900216

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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; AR23: 76 days late, AR10: 2 days late,

Main office

4th Floor
Carlson Suite
Vantage Point Business Village
Mitcheldean
Gloucestershire
GL17 0DD

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION, WELFARE AND BENEFIT OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND TO PROMOTE ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES IN RELATION THERETO.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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