Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

HEADROOM - YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHARITY

Provide Specialist Youth Counselling, Anger management counselling and therapeutic group services to young people aged 11- 25yrs. Specialists in supporting those young people with some form of neuro-diversity inc ASC & ADHDProvide Specialist parenting support to the parents and carers of young people in this specific age group dealing with the challenges of emotional and behavioural regulation.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • 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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/07/24£89£81£8n/a
30/07/23£55£56£0n/a
30/07/22£61£39£22n/a
30/07/21£20£15£5n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

WWW.HEADROOMCHARITY.CO.UK

INFO@HEADROOMCHARITY.CO.UK

07464507974

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, Surrey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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
National Lottery Community Fund£7,200
Community Foundation for Surrey£6,069
Garfield Weston Foundation£4,000
Woodward Charitable Trust£600
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Headroom Young People's Charity
£6,069 08/02/2024
11.774193548387
Funding towards the salary costs of specialist counsellors providing mental health and behavious support for young people.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£600 30/10/2023
Core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£2,000 22/03/2023
Specialist Therapeutic Services for young people and their parents with some form of Neuro diversity
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£2,000 03/12/2021
Therapeutic Counselling
National Lottery Community Fund - Headroom Young People's Charity
£7,200 15/10/2021
The funding will be used to provide counselling sessions for young people who are living with a range of learning issues. This will improve levels of mental health and wellbeing amongst young people.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CALLUM BOWDREY-ROBERTS Appointed: 2023
  • CLAIRE RASON Appointed: 2023
  • DANIEL REILLY Appointed: 2023
  • DOUG DRINKWATER Appointed: 2023
  • FIONA POTTER Appointed: 2024
  • JEFF FISHER Appointed: 2024
  • REBECCA JANE WILLIAMS Appointed: 2020
  • SIMON MAHONY Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/08/2020, number: 1190834
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Headroom Young People's Charity
Suite 1 Wesley Hall
Barrack Road
Aldershot
Hants
GU11 3NP

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL DISTRESS OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN RUSHMOOR AND SURROUNDING AREAS SUFFERING FROM POOR MENTAL HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PERSONS.TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN 11 AND 25, AND THEIR PARENTS AND/OR CARERS LIVING IN NE HAMPSHIRE AND SURREY BORDERS AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF COUNSELLING AND PARENTING ADVICE AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE, CAPACITIES, CAPABILITIES AND ASPIRATIONS TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) PROVIDING PARENTING EDUCATION BY PROVIDING BESPOKE 121 SUPPORT TO PROMOTE POSITIVE PARENTING AND FAMILY STABILITY;(C) RELIEVING POOR MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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