Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

FAITHWORKS WESSEX 

Our charitable objects are given life through a number of projects, including: homelessness outreach, befriending of carers, supported placements for adults with learning disabilities, food banks, personal budget coaching, and support to reduce social isolation in older people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 19 years

https://faith-works.org.uk/

alistair@faith-works.org.uk

01202429037

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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£1,155£1,157£-3£18£682£620.639270
31/03/22£906£1,018£-111£13£685£1061.335175
31/03/21£1,204£774£430£11£796£1532.427150
31/03/20£738£536£202£9£364£701.628100
31/03/19£465£427£38n/an/an/an/an/a600
31/03/18£394£413£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£404£395£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£361£365£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£302£257£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£275£256£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£260£218£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£218£174£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£113£163£-50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£188£173£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£162£171£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£165£160£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£104£94£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£52£53£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 9%
Reserves/Spending: 0.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 138.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 39 employees
  • 270 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Dorset,

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£441,008
Dorset Community Foundation£68,963
Tudor Trust£62,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
DCMS£34,704
Co-Operative Group£13,629
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - SMILE Connect
£271,651 01/08/2023
This funding will support the provision of activities and social connection for single parent families. The project aims to provide a community of families who support each other's wellbeing and help ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£3,000 14/06/2023
As directed by donor towards debt advice.
Rank Foundation - Col core Faithworks 2023 Part
£10,000 27/04/2023
Faithworks received a Cost of Living Core grant to help cover staff salaries and increases in rent and utilities.
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£500 16/03/2023
Grant to Faithworks Wessex
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Poole Foodbank
£7,500 06/12/2022
Additional food for food parcels, recipe bags to enable families to cook together, vouchers for use at The Spire café for hot lunches, plus some core costs
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Christchurch Foodbank
£4,550 06/12/2022
Community meal for the elderly, and hampers for households in need
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£5,000 02/12/2022
Activity programme for people in recovery from addiction, or who have experienced homelessness.
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Blandford Food Bank
£2,250 11/11/2022
Grant to purchase Christmas themed food and toy vouchers to create hampers for families in financial hardship at Christmas
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Christchurch Foodbank
£2,250 11/11/2022
Grant to purchase Christmas themed food and toy vouchers to create hampers for families in financial hardship at Christmas
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Wimborne Food Bank
£2,250 11/11/2022
Grant to purchase Christmas themed food and toy vouchers to create hampers for families in financial hardship at Christmas
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Poole Foodbank
£2,250 11/11/2022
Grant to purchase Christmas themed food and toy vouchers to create hampers for families in financial hardship at Christmas
National Lottery Community Fund - The Arch Support Project
£10,000 30/08/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a 6-month project that will be used to identify and pilot how combining the recovery and homelessness support workers and activities will produce better outcomes ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 26/08/2022
FW Recovery - Helping Individuals Break Free From Addiction
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Poole Foodbank
£8,000 21/06/2022
Supporting existing work at the Foodbank including purchase of additional food, purchase of food vouchers, provision of cookery courses and Recipe Bags, and vouchers for hot meals at The Spire on ....more
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Christchurch Foodbank
£7,033 21/06/2022
To support meal-in-a-bag and lunch bags for local families and a voucher scheme in partnership with local café’s to enable those on a low income to access a meal
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£1,650 08/06/2022
As directed by donor towards debt advice.
National Lottery Community Fund - BCP Access to Food Partnership (Faithworks)
£140,057 24/02/2022
The project will use the funding for a three year partnership that will support people living with food insecurity. It will work to ensure there is access to food for people living in crisis and ....more
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£2,000 27/01/2022
This grant will be used towards the cost of the meals and food packs for our homelessness project, BCARS.
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Christchurch Foodbank
£5,880 07/12/2021
Weekly community lunches from January - March
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to POOLE FOODBANK - a project of Faithworks Wessex
£7,500 07/12/2021
Core costs to support increased demand over the winter, including provision of food, food vouchers and cookery courses
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£3,000 25/11/2021
Debt management, household budgeting and money management education for young people and other vulnerable groups
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Blandford Food Bank
£2,250 22/11/2021
Practical resources to support monthly litter picks taking place in three areas across Poole.
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Christchurch Foodbank
£2,250 22/11/2021
Grant to purchase Christmas themed food and toy vouchers to create hampers for families in financial hardship at Christmas
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to POOLE FOODBANK - a project of Faithworks Wessex
£2,250 22/11/2021
Grant to purchase Christmas themed food and toy vouchers to create hampers for families in financial hardship at Christmas
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Wimborne Food Bank
£2,250 22/11/2021
Grant to purchase Christmas themed food and toy vouchers to create hampers for families in financial hardship at Christmas
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Wimborne Food Bank
£5,895 23/10/2021
We would like to buy specific food to include in our school holiday parcels to ensure that they are tailored more towards children and are more helpful for families during the school holidays.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 20/08/2021
FW Recovery - Helping Individuals Break Free From Addiction
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Bournemouth Christians Alongside Roughsleepers (BCARS)
£450 09/08/2021
To support a team of volunteers and children undertaking work on a overgrown hedge removing dead or dying trees and bramble, then replanting with new hedging - aiming to improve biodiversity and ....more
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Bournemouth Christians Alongside Roughsleepers (BCARS)
£550 27/07/2021
Educational sessions teaching people how to build build top-bar hives and planting bee friendly corridors in the local area
National Lottery Community Fund - Ex Roughsleepers Helping Themselves
£9,800 18/06/2021
The funding will be used to cover the costs of a storeman and vehicle for an organisation helping people in temporary accommodation to maintain accommodation find work and improve wellbeing.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£1,000 18/06/2021
As directed by donor towards debt advice.
Dorset Community Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£1,000 05/05/2021
To contribute 50% of costs for Recovery Days, supporting people in recovery from addictions, including at least 50% members who are either street homeless or in supported accommodation
Tudor Trust - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£2,000 10/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£2,719 24/10/2020
Sleepsafe is a winter emergency bed scheme for rough sleepers who want to make a change in their lives.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Wimborne Food Bank
£5,015 24/10/2020
We would like to hold community meals in school holidays for food bank clients, families who receive free school meals and the isolated.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£34,704 02/09/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£10,000 13/05/2020
3
Grant to Faithworks Wessex to support the organisation through COVID19
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 07/02/2020
A New Approach to Debt Advice
National Lottery Community Fund - Sleepsafe - Emergency Winter Beds
£9,500 08/08/2019
12
Sleepsafe - Emergency Winter Beds
Tudor Trust - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£60,000 11/07/2019
24
over two years as continuation funding towards core costs at an organisation supporting vulnerable people in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch
The MSE Charity - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£5,670 15/11/2018
Moving on with your money: finance help for ex-offenders
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£75,000 18/10/2018
36
To fund project worker and workshop coach and associated project costs of Second Half - a skills-based training programme for ex-rough sleepers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Local Life Centres
£291,288 01/10/2018
36
The project supports those facing crisis at various points in life, these include unpaid carers, lone parents, rough sleepers, victims of domestic abuse and those in immediate material ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Money Matters
£8,990 27/07/2018
12
The funding will be used to run a debt advice service for people who are financially disadvantaged. The project aims to provide the guidance required to address issues and improve life chances.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 13/06/2018
Creative ways to address Money crisis and Debt prevention
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£15,000 11/07/2017
12
a pilot project to support rough sleepers who have moved into accommodation to access work placements, skills training and employability support.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£75,000 20/05/2016
36
over three years towards core costs (including salaries) to enable the organisation to develop its strategic development in supoprting vulnerable people in the Poole, Bournemouth and Boscombe areas
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£106,100 07/12/2012
Money Mates is a project that will be delivered across Poole and Bournemouth to minimise the negative effects of the current financial climate and maximise the ability of individuals to manage and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Faithworks Wessex
£20,000 27/04/2012
the salary of the Chief Executive
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-79
  • LIZ DAVIES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Operations Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/03/2005, number: 1108714
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/03/2004, number: 05077777
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
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds 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
18 returns made; AR17: 2 days late, AR15: 36 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from LEIGH PARK (WIMBORNE MINSTER) COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION on 17/01/2023
Main office

Heron Court Road
BOURNEMOUTH
BH9 1DE

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS OR DISTRESS, PARTICULARLY AMONGST THE ELDERLY, HOMELESS, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE AND THOSE CARING FOR A FAMILY MEMBER WITH A PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR SENSORY DISABILITY, BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OF DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE IN PARTICULAR THROUGH FACILITATING CHURCHES AND CHRISTIANS TO WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES BY ADDRESSING SUCH ISSUES OF DISADVANTAGE, SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND OTHER AREAS OF NEED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, THE BOROUGH OF POOLE AND ADJACENT PARISHES.

Data Sources

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