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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

COUNTRYMEN UK

Countrymen UK use the farm and countryside environments help to meet the challenges being faced by men who find themselves isolated because of deteriorating physical or mental health or changing social circumstances. Conditions may include: Dementia, Parkinsons, Stroke, Isolation, Injuries, Anxiety, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress, Chronic Pain, Cancer, Heart & Lung Conditions and others.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/10/23£56£44£12
31/10/22£35£35£0
31/10/21£22£16£6
31/10/20£30£0£30
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.countrymenuk.org

julie@futureroots.net

01963210703

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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • 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
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£600 08/01/2024
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Dorset Community Foundation - Core funding
£1,000 14/03/2022
Core costs for charity supporting rurally isolated older men including those with dementia and other health conditions
Dorset Community Foundation - Addressing the health inequalities experienced by older men in rural Dorset
£4,000 08/11/2021
Farming activities for older men including those with Dementia and Parkinsons, to relieve isolation, provide repite for carers and benefit health & wellbeing

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANDREW JAMES WOODCOCK Appointed: 2024
  • CHARLOTTE RUTH WOODCOCK Appointed: 2024
  • HARRY WILLIAM RIDGEWELL Appointed: 2024
  • JULIE ANN PLUMLEY Appointed: 2019
  • REVEREND JONATHAN PATRICK HERBERT Appointed: 2019
  • ROSEMARY ELIZABETH LOCKYER Appointed: 2019
  • ROGER BOYD BOREHAM SEWILL Appointed: 2024
  • SUSAN SPENCER Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/08/2019, number: 1184921
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

RYLANDS
HOLNEST
SHERBORNE
DT9 5PS

Objectives

- TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF OLDER MEN IN THE UK WHO ARE LIVING WITH COGNITIVE AND MOBILITY ISSUES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, RURAL CRAFTS, CARE FARMING, RESPITE SERVICES AND OTHER ECOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES.- TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG OLDER MEN IN THE UK WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY COMBATTING LONELINESS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION ARISING AS A RESULT OF THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCE.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS:UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, YOUTH OR OLD AGE; AND ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL)

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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