Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 8

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
All female board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 10

BREASTFEEDING TOGETHER

Breastfeeding Together is a registered charity providing positive peer support from pregnancy to early years and beyond. We aim to improve the health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities within communities by providing pregnancy, parenting and infant feeding information and support in a variety of ways.

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
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely 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

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
31/03/23		£88	£93	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	51
31/03/22		£69	£74	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	58
31/03/21		£75	£47	£27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	64
31/03/20	*	£18	£4	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/19		£1	£1	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/18	*	£15	£1	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£62	£1	£61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 9 years

www.breastfeedingtogether.co.uk

enquiries@breastfeedingtogether.co.uk

01942777903

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
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 services

Where it operates

Bolton, Wigan,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£41,264
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,531
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust	£6,850

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Breastfeeding Together
£4,946	07/06/2023	The funding is for the running of a weekly walking group for 12 months for mums to attend with their babies.
National Lottery Community Fund - Connect & Share Parenting Support Forum
£9,869	29/09/2022	The funding will be used to deliver an online support forum for the advancement of health for a women’s group of 1800 for the public benefit through the provision of information skilled help and ....more The funding will be used to deliver an online support forum for the advancement of health for a women’s group of 1800 for the public benefit through the provision of information skilled help and support for the advancement of health and wellbeing of children and families. Support is accompanied by positive peer support to families from pregnancy through to early years and beyond. The group works together alongside local NHS trust maternity services health visiting teams and local councils who continue to signpost women to the forum.
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Breastfeeding Together
£1,904	19/07/2022	The project will train new breastfeeding peer support volunteers
National Lottery Community Fund - Connect & Share Parenting Support Forum
£9,662	20/08/2021	The funding will be used to continue to deliver an online support forum for pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. The project aims to provide practical and emotional support to improve the ....more The funding will be used to continue to deliver an online support forum for pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. The project aims to provide practical and emotional support to improve the wellbeing of new families.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£41,264	26/08/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALLANA JEMMA HUTCHINSON Appointed: 2020

DANIELLE DALEY Appointed: 2021

ELINOR HALLIWELL Appointed: 2021

KIMBERLEY HORLICK Appointed: 2023

SARAH HARRISON Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/11/2015, number: 1164333

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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; AR20: 11 days late, AR18: 29 days late,

Main office

WIGAN INVESTMENT CENTRE
WATERSIDE DRIVE
WIGAN
WN3 5BA

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, SKILLED HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES BOTH IN THE ANTENATAL AND POSTNATAL PERIOD.

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