Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE BLACKTHORN TRUST

Treatment & rehabilitation for patients suffering serious long term conditions (chronic pain, poor mental health, and Type 2 Diabetes) using anthroposophic therapies and work in a community setting.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and 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
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£488£676£-188n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£599£623£-24£45£1,115£1,11221.41730
31/12/21£730£572£158£47£1,138£1,13723.91731
31/12/20£651£574£78£43£980£94819.81630
31/12/19*£525£561£-36£42£903£88118.91831
31/12/18£612£534£79£41£939£80418.1180
31/12/17£510£498£12£54£860£73417.7150
31/12/16£363£450£-87n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£555£441£114£29£934£81322.180
31/12/14£443£437£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£415£498£-84n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£530£480£50£90£898£80120130
31/12/11£516£531£-15£133£847£73916.7130
31/12/10?£596£685£-89£121£862£79313.9130
31/08/09£527£544£-16£101£952£91420.2150
31/08/08£507£535£-28£94£968£96821.7150
31/08/07£255£232£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 18 years

www.blackthorn.org.uk

admin@blackthorn.org.uk

01622828370

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Kent,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£60,000
DCMS£49,850
National Lottery Community Fund£19,948
CAF£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 20/06/2023
Core funding for Blackthorn
National Lottery Community Fund - Learning to cook for better health and wellbeing
£9,948 28/07/2022
The funding will be used to run a cook and eat healthily course. The project aims to help people improve their mental or physical health for those living on a low income and have little or no ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting growth
£10,000 19/03/2021
11
The funding will be used to support people struggling with symptoms of Long-Covid with their rehabilitation work and older people who have become even more isolated as a result of COVID-19 and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 04/12/2020
2021 Core Funding
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,850 29/09/2020
"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 Blackthorn Trust
£10,000 26/05/2020
3
Grant to Blackthorn Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Blackthorn Trust
£4,570 24/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that provides therapeutic sessions to people with disabilities in Kent
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving access and safety
£9,900 18/07/2019
12
The organisation will use funding to complete the healing garden and will included the purchase of raised beds and a disabled access toilet. The project aims to improve their therapeutic environment ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Blackthorn Trust
£15,000 08/02/2018
reconstruction of a garden for a charity which works with disabled people in Maidstone
National Lottery Community Fund - Art Therapy Group Pilot
£9,782 24/01/2018
12
This organisation will pilot art therapy sessions for people with mental health problems, or chronic illness to support people to build their confidence and wellbeing.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Blackthorn Trust
£49,577 11/08/2017
24
supporting individuals suffering complex and enduring mental health conditions to manage their conditions and improve the quality of their lives The grant will fundthe salaries of the Chef, Gardener ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 03/05/2017
Core costs
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Blackthorn Trust
£49,577 08/07/2015
24
supporting individuals suffering complex and enduring mental health conditions to manage their conditions and improve the quality of their lives The grant will fundthe salaries of the Chef, Gardener ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Blackthorn Trust
£139,626 06/12/2010
24
Towards Project costs Towards the pilot Sustainable Futures which will support the mentally ill through social enterprise activity .
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 47-82
  • ALICE LAURA CHAPMAN-HATCHETT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director Health And Europe Centre
  • ANDREW JAMES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Development Consultant
  • GEORGE ALAN PERRY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Counsellor
  • HAZEL CHRISTINE ADAMS Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Company Director
  • JONATHAN SHAW (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Business Development Consultant
  • JUSTINE SLOOVER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
  • KEVIN ANDREW MOULE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired Bank Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/02/2007, number: 1117979
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/10/2006, number: 05964574
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
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR19: 16 days late,
Main office

St. Andrews Road
MAIDSTONE
Kent
ME16 9AN

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH, ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE WITH SEVERE AND/OR CHRONIC ILLNESS (EITHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL) BY PROVIDING MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND REHABILITATION SERVICES, DEVELOPED OUT OF THE PERSPECTIVE OF ANTHROPOSOPHY (WHICH PRINCIPLES ARE SET OUT IN APPENDIX 1).

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, KENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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