Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 3

TARKA CHILD CONTACT CENTRE

To provide a supported, safe, neutral and friendly place for children to spend time with thier absent parent, and sometimes other family members, when there is no other viable option.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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 recently but spending has been maintained

Established: 13 years

tarkachildcontactcentre.com

tarkaccc@btinternet.com

01237473122

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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		£16	£18	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/22	*	£22	£17	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/21		£23	£15	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/20		£19	£16	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£23	£15	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/18		£16	£14	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£10	£14	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£10	£14	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£16	£17	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£11	£15	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£13	£13	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£23	£10	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Other Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Devon,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
12 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

Devon Community Foundation	£10,000
Ministry of Justice	£5,170
Woodward Charitable Trust	£2,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,500	15/03/2024	Core costs
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Tarka Child Contact Centre
£2,000	19/10/2022	Continuing free service facilitating child and absent parent contact sessions.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000	11/11/2021	Core costs
Devon Community Foundation - Tarka child contact centre
£2,000	07/09/2021	Core cost funding to support free service offering supported contact for children and separated families
Ministry of Justice - Supported Child Contact Centres
£2,500	01/04/2021	To help sustain supported contact centres to contribute to costs to enable them to continue delivering supported contact in the community.
Ministry of Justice - Supported Child Contact Centres
£2,670	01/01/2020	To help sustain supported contact centres to contribute to costs to enable them to continue delivering supported contact in the community.
Devon Community Foundation - Core Funding - Tarka Child Contact Centre
£6,000	31/10/2019 11	contributing to core costs over a 3 year period to support the Centre offer a safe space for children and estranged parents to meet following family breakdowns
Ministry of Justice - ALB - Cafcass - Supported Child Contact Centres (SCCC) Grant 19-20
£2,805	01/04/2019	Provide support for contact centres
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards core costs
£500	13/11/2018	Towards core costs.
Ministry of Justice - Supported contact centres
£2,973	01/04/2018	Provide support for contact centres
Ministry of Justice - Supported Contact
£2,850	01/04/2017	Delivery of Separated Parent Information Programme to participants ordered to attend by Family Courts (CA 1989)
Ministry of Justice - Supported Contact
£3,000	01/04/2016 12	Delivery of Separated Parent Information Programme to participants ordered to attend by Family Courts (CA 1989)
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards core costs to help children
£1,000	23/07/2009	Towards core costs to help children from separated families meet family members weekly in a neutral and safe environment.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Gender Split

ANDREW CHARLES

DAWN LESLEY MILNER (Chair)

JANE ELIZABETH CREESE Appointed: 2022

VANESSA BILLING MBE Appointed: 2011

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/04/2011, number: 1141086

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints 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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

12 returns made; AR22: 3 days late, AR17: 1 days late,

Main office

24 BRIDGELAND STREET
BIDEFORD
DEVON
EX39 2QB

Objectives

TO OFFER A SAFE, FRIENDLY AND NEUTRAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE TORRIDGE AREA WHERE CHILDREN OF SEPARATED FAMILIES CAN SPEND TIME WITH ONE OR BOTH PARENTS AND SOMETIMES OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS.

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