Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -2 ?

SAFE STRONG AND FREE PROJECT 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 33 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Total income £140,199 £143,677 £156,301 £133,475 £121,608 £109,699
Total spending £117,195 £151,777 £150,055 £88,806 £107,698 £138,419
Surplus/deficit £23,004 -£8,100 £6,246 £44,669 £13,910 -£28,720
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • Any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Highland
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups

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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Safe Strong and Free
£1,244 21/10/2023
We would like to deliver workshops to children across the Highlands. We teach children what to do if they are bullied, how to stay safe around strangers, body safety, and emotional wellbeing.
Foundation Scotland - Keeping children safe, strong and free from harm.
£5,000 23/08/2023
To support a series of educational workshops that target the prevention of abuse and educate young people on its causes.
Foundation Scotland - Health and Well Being Workshops
£237 18/08/2023
Cost of living uplift from Essentia Fund
Foundation Scotland - North Highlands Workshops
£5,000 04/08/2023
To deliver a series of educational workshops that will be delivered to schools across the Highlands with the aim of educating children on different forms of abuse.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Safe Strong & Free
£2,092 22/10/2022
We would like to provide our safety workshops to children with additional support needs.
Foundation Scotland - Health and Well Being Workshops
£9,000 09/08/2022
To support a series of interactive workshops aimed at assissting vulnerable young people in the Highlands.
Foundation Scotland - VIRTUAL REFRESHER WORKSHOPS
£4,650 30/03/2022
To purchase the necessary IT equipment to deliver refresher workshops online.
Foundation Scotland - Keeping Children Safe
£40,000 15/03/2022
To deliver safety workshops to primary school children.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Safe Strong and Free
£4,592 23/10/2021
Safe Strong and Free (SSF) aims to reduce children's vulnerability to online danger, sexual abuse and bullying.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Safe Strong And Free Project
£2,000 01/06/2020
to cover the cost of activity packs/story books and postage for children in Moray.
Robertson Trust - Towards the core running costs
£30,000 28/03/2019
Towards the core running costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Safe, Strong and Free
£4,133 29/11/2017
Training and equipment will help us teach Highlands children to say No to bullying.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Moray Expansion Project
£25,000 31/05/2017
After 27 years in Highland, SSF intends to bring the programme to neighbouring Moray. Feedback has always suggested the programme should be available across Scotland and this is the intention.
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering children to keep themselves Safe, Strong and Free
£150,000 21/12/2016
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This group will continue the delivery of their interactive puppet workshops for 4-5 year olds across the Highlands. The aim is to teach children skills to recognise potentially dangerous situations, ....more
Robertson Trust - continuation towards the core running costs
£30,000 22/11/2016
continuation towards the core running costs
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Safe, Strong and Free Project
£6,600 22/06/2016
Ssf delivers workshops to approximately 4000 four and five year old children in the Highland region on the subjects of bullying, abuse, neglect and strangers. The Workshops are age-appropriate, ....more
Robertson Trust - the core running costs
£15,000 31/08/2015
the core running costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 55-68
  • HOLME, Norma
    Appointed: 2019
    Occupation: Family Support Practitioner
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 09/01/1991, number: SC017744
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/07/1999, number: SC197890
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Rooms 11 & 12, Highland Rail House, 26 Station Square, Inverness, IV1 1LE

Objectives

Subject to that over-riding qualification, the company's objects are to help reduce the vulnerablility of young children of abuse and assault by (a) providing workshops for adult carers, parents and children and (b) By promoting within ther community the principles of the project in preventing child abuse.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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