Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 11
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

SIXTY-ONE 

Sixty-One is a partnership of Bristol based charities, churches, businesses and individuals who have come together to work co-operatively to help ex-prisoners lead meaningful lives that are free from crime. As charity in its own right it also runs its own projects through employed staff.
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, including a Community Foundation, recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

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
Established: 9 years

www.sixty-one.org

info@sixty-one.org

01174037905

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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
31/12/22£243£216£28n/an/an/an/an/a205
31/12/21£174£185£-11n/an/an/an/an/a275
31/12/20£169£155£14n/an/an/an/an/a162
31/12/19£197£137£60n/an/an/an/an/a203
31/12/18£122£137£-15£0£0£0n/a080
31/12/17£127£121£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£110£102£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£90£72£18£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 205 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,

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£115,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£10,000
DCMS£8,666
Quartet Community Foundation£8,250
The Bishop Radford Trust£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community enabled support for offenders within Greater Bristol.
£105,000 30/08/2023
This funding will support community rehabilitation projects which offer mentoring and connection to people who have been in the criminal justice system. The project aims to improve the wellbeing of ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Sixty-One
£5,000 21/12/2022
Development and delivery of the MentorMe programme supporting ex-offenders
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sixty-One
£500 21/11/2022
As requested by the donor towards the enabling "individuals, churches, charities and businesses to provide the relational and community based support offenders need to live free from crime."
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sixty-One
£5,000 10/11/2022
Community Hubs providing a regular space for ex-offenders to meet together and receive practical and emotional support
National Lottery Community Fund - Prisoner Christmas Gift Project
£10,000 15/08/2022
The funding will be used to co-ordinate deliver and manage a project to provide serving prisoners with a bag containing a selection of simple gift items at Christmas along with information about ....more
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Sixty - One
£2,000 29/07/2022
Support for Mentor Me project, hubs and partnership work. Support will be provided for over 1500 prisoners and 180 ex prisoners
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000 11/11/2021
Core costs
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Sixty - One
£2,000 30/07/2021
Support for Mentor Me project, hubs and partnership work. Support will be provided for over 1500 prisoners and 180 ex prisoners.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Sixty-One
£250 02/07/2021
As requested by the donor towards mentoring ex-prisoners
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Sixty-One
£5,000 18/09/2020
MentorMe
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,666 07/08/2020
"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
Woodward Charitable Trust - Mentor training, support and expenses for MentorMe programme
£1,000 19/11/2019
Towards mentor training, support and expenses for the MentorMe programme for ex-prisoners.
Quartet Community Foundation - MentorMe
£2,500 30/04/2019
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Towards a mentoring programme for prisoners and ex-prisoners.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 18/04/2018
Partnership Development and Sustainability
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/11/2014, number: 1159302
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Sixty-One
c/o St Agnes Church
Thomas Street
BRISTOL
BS2 9LL

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED OR HARDSHIP IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING REGION AND IN PARTICULAR PRISONERS, EX-PRISONERS AND THOSE WHO ARE AT RISK OF ENTERING THE PRISON SYSTEM BY (IN EACH CASE IN WAYS WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH):PROVIDING AND FINANCING A MENTORING SERVICE TO ASSIST SUCH PERSONS IN DEVELOPING SKILLS TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION; ANDPROMOTING AND FINANCING SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SEE FIT IN ORDER TO RELIEVE SUCH PERSONS FROM HARDSHIP AND TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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