Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 2

No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Overall weighted support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 5

WAVE FORWARD

A new charity to support young people (aged 12 to 25) in South Cumbria. Wave Forward works with young people, secondary schools, charities, and other partners, to create a therapeutic support programme, run campaigns/events and provide training to raise awareness and understanding of mental ill-health

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
The Board appears to be 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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£77	£60	£17
31/12/21		£90	£52	£39

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

admin@waveforward.org.uk

07768901384

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Cumbria,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities

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
National Lottery Community Fund - Wave Forward Counselling Service
£9,063	22/07/2022	The funding will be used to employ a coordinator to expand their Counselling Service to enable more young people with mental health issues to access therapeutic support and improve their wellbeing. ....more The funding will be used to employ a coordinator to expand their Counselling Service to enable more young people with mental health issues to access therapeutic support and improve their wellbeing. The coordinator will work with charities GPS and schools to raise awareness of mental health using campaigns events websites and social media to help reach more young people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Well Minds
£9,814	19/02/2021 11	The funding will be used to employ a Communications/Fundraising Officer to help raise awareness of mental health issues promote the project's own and partner services and enable them to access ....more The funding will be used to employ a Communications/Fundraising Officer to help raise awareness of mental health issues promote the project's own and partner services and enable them to access funding streams. This aims to provide more vulnerable young people with access to counselling and peer support and self-help skills helping to improve overall mental health.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

BEN MICHAEL MCGREGOR Appointed: 2023

DAVID BEUZEVAL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee

ELEANOR CRAGG Appointed: 2023

MEGAN HALL Appointed: 2024

RO LEWIS Appointed: 2024

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/08/2020, number: 1191038

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

2 returns made; all on time

Main office

Casterton Suite
Clawthorpe Hall Business Centre
Burton in Kendal
Carnforth
Lancashire
LA6 1NU

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE, PROTECT AND RELIEVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH LAKELAND AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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