Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

BEFRIENDED

Befriended provides a range of services aimed at combating loneliness and isolation amongst older people living in Mid Sussex. These include face to face befriending, telephone befriending, befriended buddies, bereavement support, chaplaincy, exercise classes, social activities and events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity and another benefit

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
30/09/23£86£61£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/22£31£40£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/21£31£24£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20£18£10£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£17£6£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18£20£13£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.befriended.org

gail@befriended.org

0300 7727703

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Sussex, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People

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
Henry Smith Charity£50,000
Sussex Community Foundation£25,000
Allen Lane Foundation£7,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Befriended
£50,000 17/10/2023
towards two years‘ salary and on costs of the CEO at an organisation that aims to end loneliness and isolation amongst older people living in Mid-Sussex by bringing them to Christian faith and ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Befriended
£10,000 20/03/2023
12
Funding was provided towards staff costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Befriended
£5,000 11/03/2022
They provide various forms of befriending. Funding was provided towards the staff costs of their administrator.
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Befriended
£7,000 04/03/2022
24
£7,000 over two years (£3,500pa) towards the sustainability and development of this Befriending service in Mid Sussex.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Befriended
£5,000 19/11/2020
12
Funding was provided towards staff costs of a part-time administrator.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Befriended
£5,000 06/04/2020
This application is to support the running of a telephone befriending scheme for older people launched in response to Covid-19. Expenses include running the 0300 number, advertising, staffing and ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Befriended
£5,000 05/07/2019
17
Funding was provided towards staff costs of a part-time administrator.
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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

  • CHRIS WYLES Appointed: 2024
  • DAVID CHEWTER Appointed: 2021
  • GAIL MILLAR Appointed: 2017
  • GEORGE BAXTER (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • JULIA CROOK Appointed: 2024
  • NICHOLAS BALDWIN Appointed: 2021
  • REV DIANE ELIZABETH WATTS Appointed: 2019
  • REV WILLIAM KEMP Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/11/2017, number: 1175623
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

9 Maude Singer Way
Hurstpierpoint
HASSOCKS
BN6 9GF

Objectives

1)TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH; AND2)TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY THROUGH A BEFRIENDING / CARE SERVICE.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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