Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 9

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 12

CARE HOME VOLUNTEERS

Care Home Volunteers is a charity that recruits, trains, deploys and supports volunteers in care homes for older people.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be 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
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 10 years

www.carehomevolunteers.org.uk

norman@carehomevolunteers.org.uk

01793762786

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
05/04/23	£74	£84	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	70
05/04/22	£111	£90	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
05/04/21	£47	£64	£-17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	52
05/04/20	£56	£55	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	56
05/04/19	£56	£48	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
05/04/18	£22	£16	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/17	£2	£13	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/16	£41	£18	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/15	£38	£10	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
70 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

Tudor Trust	£52,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£33,500
Wiltshire Community Foundation	£20,000
The Foyle Foundation	£11,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
Charles Hayward Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Contribution towards Volunteer Coordinator's salary costs
£10,000	25/11/2022	The funding will be used to continue a volunteer befriending programme for elderly people who are struggling with extreme loneliness within care settings in the Wiltshire area. The project aims to ....more The funding will be used to continue a volunteer befriending programme for elderly people who are struggling with extreme loneliness within care settings in the Wiltshire area. The project aims to break down barriers between people and create stronger communities within the care homes and outside.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£13,000	24/06/2022	Care Home Volunteers, BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,000	21/04/2022	to support core befriending work in care homes in Wiltshire, Swindon and Bath and NE Somerset (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Care Home Volunteers (CHV)
£5,000	21/12/2021	Care Home Volunteers
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£13,000	25/06/2021	Care Home Volunteers, BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£10,000	24/05/2021	Grant to Care Home Volunteers
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£50,000	31/03/2021 24	over two years as continuation funding towards the salary of a new post of Chief Executive for a charity working to support isolated older people in care homes, primarily in Wiltshire
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£2,000	19/01/2021	as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£5,000	04/11/2020 24	1:1 befriending for isolated older people in residential care homes in West Wiltshire.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£5,000	28/05/2020	To supply tablets to older people in care homes.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	23/04/2020	towards core costs in yearend 5 April 2021 of charity reducing loneliness and isolation among care home residents (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	17/01/2020	Care Home Volunteers BaNES
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£40,000	26/02/2019 24	over two years as unrestricted funding for a charity which recruits, trains and supports volunteers to befriend socially-isolated care home residents, currently in the South West of England
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£10,000	26/02/2019	Care Home Volunteers provides trained volunteers to befriend isolated older people in residential homes. Funding will go towards running costs.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£30,000	02/02/2016 12	over one year as continuation funding towards the further development of work using volunteers to enhance the quality of life of residents in care homes in Salisbury and Chippenham
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£5,000	13/11/2015 12	Care Home Volunteers recruits, trains, deploys and supports volunteers in care homes for older people. The grant supported a new project in Chippenham matching volunteers to their local care home ....more Care Home Volunteers recruits, trains, deploys and supports volunteers in care homes for older people. The grant supported a new project in Chippenham matching volunteers to their local care home to reduce isolation for older people.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Home Volunteers
£20,000	09/12/2014	over eight months towards a pilot project within three care homes in Salisbury using volunteers to enhance residents' quality of life and to build stronger connections between care homes and the ....more over eight months towards a pilot project within three care homes in Salisbury using volunteers to enhance residents' quality of life and to build stronger connections between care homes and the wider community

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISON RADEVSKY MA,MBA Appointed: 2017

DR MARCUS FERNLEY STEVENS Appointed: 2022

GILLIAN HEATHER LEAKE Appointed: 2020

HEATHER ALLEYNE Appointed: 2021

KEITH PAUL TROWBRIDGE RMN RGNCPN Appointed: 2015

NATALIE MARIE LEVIN Appointed: 2019

NICOLA ANNE GREGSON (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: AGE UK BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET LIMITED,

PAULA ALISON TENNANT Appointed: 2018

SUSAN JANE GEARY Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/09/2014, number: 1158654

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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Complaints policy and procedures
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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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

9 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from FRIENDS OF FIRST CITY on 13/01/2023

Main office

First City Nursing
Unit 7
Industry Park
Cricketts Lane
CHIPPENHAM
Wiltshir

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF OLDER PEOPLE IN RESIDENTIAL AND NURSING CARE HOMES IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY THE PROVISION OF VOLUNTEERS TO INCREASE SOCIAL CONTACT AND WELL-BEING OF THOSE RESIDENTS, AND REDUCE THEIR SOCIAL ISOLATION, AND BY THE PROVISION, SUPPORT AND TRAINING OF SUCH VOLUNTEERS.

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