Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2

HEADWAY THAMES VALLEY LIMITED 

Headway Thames Valley aims to increase understanding of brain injury and its consequences using individual programmes to enhance cognitive, physical and personal development and encouraging the return to as normal a life as possible. Holidays, meet ups, support groups. courses & trips improve social and community re-integration and provide support, advice and respite to the families and carers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 34 years

www.headwaythamesvalley.org.uk

info@headwaythamesvalley.org.uk

01491411469

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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£215£202£13n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22£198£173£25n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/21£148£150£-2n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£184£204£-20n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/19£277£185£93n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£215£238£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£287£361£-74£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£306£384£-78£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£291£327£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£333£345£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£303£307£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£332£292£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£302£306£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£352£287£66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£286£246£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£244£220£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£234£256£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£211£249£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£192£185£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£192£185£7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 15 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,

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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,470 21/08/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 17/09/2018
Improving Life After Brain Injury
National Lottery Community Fund - Living With Brain Injury Courses
£8,447 16/08/2017
12
This project will develop their services for people facing physical and cognitive disabilities by delivering Living with Brain Injury courses to provide support and advice to people affected by brain ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-75
  • KIM MILAN Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Solicitor
  • SOPHIE EVERMAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Customer Success Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/07/1990, number: 900591
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/06/1990, number: 02509780
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
  • 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
  • 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; AR13: 2 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR05: 11 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

BRUNNER HALL
84B GREYS ROAD
HENLEY-ON-THAMES
RG9 1TF

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEAD INJURY OR BRAIN DAMAGE THROUGH ILLNESS OR ACCIDENT AND THEIR FAMILIES INCLUDING CO-HABITEES AND DEPENDANTS OF SUCH UNION WHO ARE IN NEED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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