Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +6

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN GRIEF LIMITED 

Children and Families in Grief (CFG) offers free support to all South Devon Children, young people and their family or carers who have lost a significant person, through death.The CFG team consists of counsellors, professionals and volunteers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely 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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 21 years

www.childrenandfamiliesingrief.co.uk

info@childrenandfamiliesingrief.co.uk

07961973376

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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
31/08/22£27£32£-5n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/08/21£46£25£20n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/08/20£26£47£-21n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/08/19£75£56£18n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/08/18£44£47£-3£0£0£0n/a05
31/08/17£59£39£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£32£49£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£69£52£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£38£39£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£39£28£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£8£19£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/11£14£10£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/10*£0£4£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/09£0£8£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/08£17£14£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/07£11£9£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/06£4£6£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/05£19£1£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/04£2£0£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 5 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon, Torbay,

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
BBC Children in Need£24,000
Co-Operative Group£11,605
National Lottery Community Fund£9,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Bereavement support - tailored to every family
£9,800 25/08/2023
The funding will be used to continue the group's delivery of support for children and families living with a bereavement. The project aims to help develop coping mechanisms process and express loss ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children & Families in Grief
£24,000 27/07/2023
This grant will provide family counselling supporting bereaved children and young people. The sessions will help them feel more positively empowered to express their emotions, improve family ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Children and Families in Grief
£6,077 23/10/2021
We aim to offer counselling sessions to those who have been bereaved of a close family member.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Children and Families in Grief
£5,528 24/10/2020
We will buy some hedgehog puppets for each child we work with and we will buy books on particular topics related to grief for the families.
National Lottery Community Fund - Rapid Response Assessment Visits
£4,860 07/02/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver rapid response assessment visits to bereaved families. The project aims to provide support at the earliest possible stage.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Children and Families in Grief Ltd
£3,779 19/11/2018
We want to give bereavement counselling and support to children and their families when someone close to them dies.
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Children and Families in Grief Ltd
£4,800 09/07/2018
12
supporting core costs which enable the provision of counselling to bereaved families in South Devon, helping them to reintegrate socially and become reconnected to their local communities
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children & Families in Grief
£27,000 13/11/2017
36
This project will support children who have suffered a bereavement by providing therapy sessions which will help to improve family relationships, give them skills to deal with their grief and learn ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching and supporting more bereaved children and families
£9,932 19/04/2017
12
This is a project by a charity in Torbay benefiting people in Torquay, Exeter and the region. They will use the funding to recruit volunteer therapists to carry out home visits and workshops for ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Children & Families in Grief Ltd
£30,000 21/03/2017
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the running costs of an organisation providing support to bereaved families across Torbay and the surrounding area
Tudor Trust - Grant to Children & Families in Grief Ltd
£36,000 14/03/2014
36
over three years towards the running costs of an organisation providing support to bereaved families across Torbay and the wider South Devon area
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Children and Families in Grief
£8,000 29/10/2012
the fees of Therapists and materials for therapeutic weekends
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-87
  • RACHAEL GILLIAM Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Certified Chartered Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/09/2003, number: 1099255
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/04/2003, number: 04736907
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR10: 73 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from KINGSKERSWELL SUMMER MOON TRUST on 21/10/2022
Main office

Children & Families in Grief
PO Box 425
Paignton
TQ4 9BF

Objectives

1) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH OF FAMILIES AND IN PARTICULAR THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF A SIGNIFICANT FAMILY MEMBER THROUGH THERAPEUTIC PLAY AND WHERE APPROPRIATE COUNSELLING 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED RECENT BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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