Overall GiG Score: 5 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +3

KINSHIP CARERS UK 

Kinship Carers UK champions the vital role of Kinship Carers when they take on the challenging role of permanently parenting someone else's child. Support groups offering advice, emotional support and encouragementBespoke Kinship care training to carers and professionals.Advocacy service and peer support programme for Kinship Carers.Kinship youth club for children and young people aged 6-16
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 including a Community Foundation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 8 years

www.kinshipcarersuk.com

office@kinshipcarersuk.com

07714531802

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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
06/04/23£37£26£11n/an/an/an/an/a23
06/04/22£20£26£-6n/an/an/an/an/a28
06/04/21£34£14£20n/an/an/an/an/a23
06/04/20£5£7£-2n/an/an/an/an/a34
06/04/19£16£6£9n/an/an/an/an/a20
06/04/18£6£6£0£0£0£0n/a00
06/04/17*£12£21£-9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 23 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 26/08/2022
One to One Support
National Lottery Community Fund - Kinship Bereavement Support Group
£10,000 29/04/2022
The funding will be used to set up virtual support groups for bereaved family and friend carers who have lost their adult child or relative and have decided to keep the children out of the care ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Kinship Carers
£2,500 13/07/2021
This funding will be used to provide an online support group and individual support and signposting to a group of people providing kinship care for children. The project aims to support carers and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Virtual support groups
£10,000 11/12/2020
5
The funding will be used to create virtual support groups for kinship carers. The project aims to bring carers together to reduce increasing levels of isolation and loneliness during COVID-19 whilst ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Kinship Carers Support Group
£10,000 28/09/2018
12
This funding will be used to run a kinship carers support group for people from the Polish community. The project aims to bring people together to reduce isolation.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/10/2015, number: 1163906
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
7 returns made; AR17: 50 days late,
Main office

43 SOMERS ROAD
WORCESTER
WR1 3JJ

Objectives

THE CIO'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO PROMOTE THE BETTER CARE, UPBRINGING AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE OF CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR BY:(A) PROMOTING THE ROLE OF KINSHIP CARE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE CARE BY GRANDPARENTS, AT ALL LEVELS, PARTICULARLY IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF FAMILY BREAKDOWN, SINGLE PARENTHOOD OR OTHER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS;(B) SUPPORTING AND ADVISING GRANDPARENTS AND OTHER KIN WHO ARE ACTING AS, OR INTEND TO ACT AS, CARERS, PARTICULARLY IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OUTLINED ABOVE. (C) THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND THEIR CARERS AND CARERS FAMILIES IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, BY PROVIDING FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND THEIR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH A VIEW OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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