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01452 767700
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The Chamwell Centre
chamwellcentre
(Registered No. 1162321)
admin@chamwellcentre.org.uk
chamwell-centre-charity W: The Milestone School, Longford Lane, Gloucester, GL2 9EU
www.chamwellcentre.org.uk
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Company number: 09692163 Charity number: 1162321
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for the year ended 31 July 2021 Financial Statements Trustees’ Annual Report and limited by guarantee) (A charitable company CENTRE CHARITY THE CHAMWELL
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Notes to the Financial Statements Statement of Cash Flows Balance Sheet Statement of Financial Activities Independent Auditor’s Report Trustees’ Report Chair’s Summary Contents
Reference and administrative information Financial Statements CENTRE CHARITY THE CHAMWELL
for the year ended 31 July 2021 Trustees’ Annual Report and
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Solicitors: Independent auditor: Bankers: office: Registered and principal Charity number: Company number: Registered Charity Name: President: Fundraising Consultant Head of Finance: Chief Executive Officer: Company Secretary: Trustees:
1162321 09692163 Reference and administrative Information
Compass House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2QJ Charles Russell Speechleys Cheltenham, Glos GLS0 3PRJ 4th Floor, St James House, St James’ Square, Crowe U.K. LLP Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4TA CAF Bank Limited, 25 Kings Hill Avenue Gloucester GL2 9EU Longford Lane The Milestone School The Chamwell Centre Charity The Chamwell Centre Charity Dame Janet Trotter DBE Mrs Liz Haigh Reeve of Fundraising Works Mrs Denise Finch Ms Gilli Appleby (appointed 1 June 2021) Dr Marie Owen Mr Chris Yorke (resigned 12 November 2021) Dr Nicola Theis Mrs Diane Taylor Mr Richard King Ms Katrina Hawkins Mr Chris Haslam Mrs Lyn Dance OBE Mr Chris Creswick Dr Natalie Campbell Mr John Banks Mr Brian Fothergill (Deputy Chair) Dr Marie Owen (Chair)
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in so many ways. believe is second to none.
Chair’s summary
Dr M Owen, Chair of Trustees Marie Owen, Chair of Trustees which is receiving the highest accolades. has managed to turn it into a Centre of Excellence survived this period of unprecedented difficulty but and dedication to ensure that Chamwell has not only together their energy, professional skills, knowledge receive no financial rewards and have brought professional care well into the future. Trustees its work and maintain its excellent standards of am sure that, thanks to its firm foundation, Chamwell will continue to grow and expand take over the future management of the building and to run its therapies and services. I work themselves, whilst gradually putting in place an excellent team of professionals to managed to keep the financial position healthy, mostly by carrying out a large part of the the trustees achieved the completion of a stunning, State of the Art building but have a more difficult time at which to launch a facility such as Chamwell. Not only have through the very challenging period of the Covid pandemic. It is not possible to imagine It is to the credit of the Board of Trustees that the Charity has been steered successfully success which it is today. Richard is remembered with huge affection and greatly missed. task - immediately and pro bono - which ensured that the Chamwell project became the support and enthusiasm, along with his ability to find a friend to carry out almost any Above all I wish to thank our trustees and especially the late Richard Levinge. It was his the dual handicaps of Covid and Brexit! achieved the near impossible task of completing a beautiful and complex building with demands into a brilliant design and to our construction company Speller Metcalfe, who Special thanks are due to our architects Quattro for incorporating all our very challenging individual donors, charitable trusts and those who have offered their services to help us honour displayed at Chamwell and on our new website, expressing our thanks to all the Chamwell dream a reality. There are too many to name individually but there are rolls of I would like to take the opportunity here to thank all those who have helped to make the vision of so many professionals and service users to build a Centre of Excellence, which I the exciting future ahead. There is no other facility quite like Chamwell, combining the of friends and supporters, to the point where it is now complete and ready to set out on It has not always been an easy road to success, but Chamwell has been helped by a host Centre open and running the activities and programmes for which it was designed. a very dedicated team of people. It is an overwhelming pleasure to see The Chamwell scale the climbing wall are the best possible reward for five years of very hard work by The smiles on the children’s faces as they enter the pool, bounce around the soft play or
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Trustees’ report
OUR AIM OUR
VISION
Objectives and activities
a cafe, “Changing Places” bathroom and outdoor adventure playground. and support community social gatherings. as a whole. maintain equality, diversity and inclusion. Directors’ Report) Regulation 2013, is not required.
how they feel, how they function on a personal along with children, young people and adults
financial statements for the Company for 1st August 2020 to 31st July 2021. The
climbing wall, rebound therapy trampoline, multipurpose therapy and consulting rooms, The Chamwell Centre facilities include a hydrotherapy pool, poolside therapy, softplay, met by providing access to facilities that enhance the wellbeing of those with disabilities consideration the Board of Trustees is satisfied that our public benefit requirements are under section four Charities Act 2011. Taking the Charities Commission’s guidance into We understand that we have a duty to report on the public benefit that we deliver and social level, and how they feel about their lives is to enhance the wellbeing of those with disability - throughout Gloucestershire, to overcome disability. pupils of The Milestone School, and SAND Academy, is to provide a visionary and unique centre to enable latest update in 2020. We are in the course of building an advisory board to ensure we The Trustees have due regard to the Charity Governance Code and are aware of the of medium and large companies under the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Since the Company qualifies as small under section 383, the strategic report required Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), effective 1 January 2019. (SORP), applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Reporting governing document and the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice comply with the current statutory requirements, the requirements of the Company’s Trustees confirm that the Annual Report and financial statements of the company The Trustees are pleased to present their Annual Report, together with the audited
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and shower facility. changing bed, overhead hoist, with an adjustable height bathroom is specially designed The ‘Changing Places’
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overhead hoist. office.
Features of the Chamwell Centre
community for social gatherings.
members of the public who need its facilities.
ambulant users of the hydrotherapy pool. fitness and teaching for people with disability and their carers. assessment of tone and function pre and post hydrotherapy. equipped with sensory lighting and therapy equipment.
tarmac games areas for adapted football, Race Running and other activities. A ‘Changing Places’ bathroom is available to all users of the Centre. This is these times, the Centre is for the use of pupils of other schools and colleges and
Adjacent to the Centre is a fully accessible outdoor adventure playground and enclosed changing facilities in comfort. This room also allows individual access for non- shower facilities, so that people with physical disability can access toilet and specially designed with an adjustable height changing bed, overhead hoist, and develop work and social skills. This is proving to be an excellent resource for the own pupils and other young people with additional needs, to enable them to tasty snacks, and light meals. This will provide work experience for the school’s A cafe, with a comprehensive food preparation kitchen, servicing hot beverages, activities such as a pre-school therapeutic playgroup, youth groups, special yoga, speech and language therapy, which can also be used for teaching and for other Multipurpose therapy and consulting rooms, for physiotherapy, occupational and An interactive climbing wall and rebound therapy trampoline, complete with and a door to the upper floor, as well as overhead hoisting on the lower floor.range of sensory effects. This has access for non-ambulant users via the main lift A three-storey adventure soft play area, with climbing features, slides, and a A poolside therapy room will allow gait analysis, physiotherapy treatment and and female ambulant changing rooms, as well as staff changing facilities and an system, providing access to the main pool. There are large fully equipped male screens, with changing trolley, shower, and access to the dual overhead hoist The non-ambulant changing room has eight changing bays, with Covid protective fast filtration and drainage and maintain the temperature at 33 degrees and eight disabled children with their one-to one carers; attendant plant to achieve in a generously proportioned complex, making it large enough to take a class of The pool complex, containing a large hydrotherapy pool, 100 metres squared, The school children use the Centre from 9.00am to 3.15pm on school days. Outside
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The Discovery Zone
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their families to have fun together in a facility which all can access freely. Chamwell ofers successful ‘stay and play’ sessions to children with additional needs and aim to provide the highest standard of care required by our members. In the meantime, programmes, including short breaks, once we have a comprehensive team in place. We anticipated as is refected nationally. We plan to deliver a full range of activities and Recruitment of staf to run activities and programmes has been far more difcult than the generosity of our donors, we have managed to implement a range of activities and
programmes, whilst maintaining fnancial stability.
difcult period and by a combination of extremely prudent fnancial management and However, we were fortunate to secure sufcient grants to tide the charity over this for the future because neither the staf nor the systems were in place. unfortunately not in a position to launch the direct fund raising, which will be necessary own fundraiser and grant fundraising continued to be undertaken by trustees. We were expenditure to a minimum meant that Chamwell was not able to aford to employ its fundraising campaign to the provision of activities and programmes. The need to restrict made it difcult for Chamwell which was in the process of moving from a capital had taken the decision only to fund projects which they had previously funded. This needs. With a lot of charities struggling to meet the demand, many grant giving charities lockdown restrictions on children and young people in Gloucestershire with additional by our own research, which had shown the disproportionately high impact of the people with additional needs. The need for activities and programmes was established funding for some specifc activities, which would relieve sufering due to Covid amongst to run a very successful capital fund raising campaign. Chamwell was able to secure hold. We had relied heavily on grant fundraising in the past and had been fortunate Fundraising has been extremely challenging since the Covid 19 pandemic began to take these systems. payroll, and a CRM system. Trustees agreed to invest in the design and commission of an IT and data management system to handle bookings and payments, fnancial records, It was recognised that Chamwell was going to be a very complex organisation, requiring members, as CEO and Quality & Governance Manager. a Care Co-ordinator (Mrs Julie De Leeuw). Both are now highly valued permanent staf facilities, we appointed an Operations Implementation Manager (Ms Gilli Appleby) and beginning to look as though Covid restrictions might permit very limited use of the By December 2020, once the building had been handed over to the Charity and it was until such time as the Centre was ready to operate. The trustees themselves continued to run the Charity, with the help of one part-time PA, sustain the salaries of personnel if it was not able to generate an income by operations. activities and programmes, but all these had to be put on hold, as the Charity could not building. We were in the process of appointing key staf such as a CEO and head of The frst Covid lockdown happened three weeks from planned completion of the The beginning of the operational phase
requiring aquatic physiotherapy will be ofered sessions outside school hours. pool. Pupils of other schools and colleges, pre-school children and other young adults physical disability, ensuring that they get the maximum beneft from the hydrotherapy aquatic physiotherapy session per week for pupils of The Milestone School who have to children and young people with physical disability. This will include at least one per week of specialist physiotherapy time for two years, to deliver aquatic therapy We have acquired funding from a generous donor to enable us to provide 35 hours recommending the most appropriate activities and therapies to them. ensuring not only professional standards, but assessing all new service users and appointed a specialist paediatric physiotherapist as Chamwell’s head of therapies, physiotherapists working at the Centre are fully trained in these specialisms. We have pool and have plans to run a similar course for rebound therapy, ensuring that the Chamwell also aims to provide highly professional therapy services. Already we have
hosted an accredited training course for aquatic physiotherapists in our hydrotherapy
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and intellectual disabilities Supporting research into physical
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Chamwell.
Research and Development
in some cases, ultra rare, which are often overlooked. supports research into physical and intellectual disabilities that are regarded as rare or, disabilities, which affect a large number of individuals. As such, the Chamwell Centre also varying range of disabilities. Research to date has tended to focus on common physical lack of evidence around interventions that promote health benefits for those with a participate in society. The Chamwell Centre supports research aimed at addressing the We want all people with a disability to have the maximum opportunity to achieve and We also have University students undertaking work placements and voluntary work with senior lecturers from the University’s School of Sport & Exercise are Chamwell trustees. Chamwell is proud to have strong links with the University of Gloucestershire. Two
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b. Income successful. a. Going concern Finance Review
Glos City Wine CIrcle donation
activities and the community cafe which opened in July 2021. preparing its financial statements.
The cafe open for business
fund raising to raising funds for operations. Additional income related to charitable donations represented most of the overall income and reflected the move from capital The total amount raised for the year 2021 was £498,661 (2020: £719,086). Voluntary these financial statements and therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in can continue in operational existence for at least 12 months from the approval of Based on the steps taken, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity to hold sufficient cash resources to meet its obligations if the grant funding is not or overdraft secured against the Centre in order to ensure that the Charity continues considered that, if necessary, they are willing to seek alternative finance, such as a loan position and use this to determine the steps they ought to take. The Trustees have The Trustees remain up to date and are aware of the Charity’s performance and financial cost savings as and when required, based on performance against budget. month the Trustees will consider and review projected costs and capital works and make funding and have a number of grant applications in the pipeline. Additionally, each activities through the receipt of donations and grants and the Charity continues to seek accounts and their cashflow forecasts. The Charity offsets its operational and charitable reviewed by the Trustees on a monthly basis where they review monthly management and considering the ongoing impacts of Covid-19. The financial position is being closely open and trading and the Trustees are closely monitoring its operational performance the Centre not being completed when originally intended. However, the Centre is now The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted and delayed the Charity’s operational plans, with
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to £189,243 (2020: £226,223) (Note 17). amounted to £162,941 (2020: £219,221) (Note 18) and Net Unrestricted Funds amounted Funds amounted to £207,133 (2020: £110,263). Unrestricted, free reserves at year-end in Fixed Assets of £4,388,452 (2020: £4,427,952). The level of Unallocated Restricted At year-end total Funds stand at £4,758,526 (2020: £4,577,436) which is mainly invested f. Funds £99,532 (note 16). provision has been provided for within Other Creditors following the execution of a lease from Gloucestershire City Council. A retention Assets under construction have been completed and transferred to long lease hold e. Fixed Assets depreciation costs of £90,839 (2020: £22,624) as the building came into use. generated from operations amounted to £181,090 (2020: £585,910) after increased to benefit from the skills and abilities of the Board of Trustees and volunteers. Surplus Direct fund raising and marketing costs have been contained within budget, continuing programmes. risen in line with expectations, as we build the team and start to deliver activities and opening to the community in the summer of 2021. Therefore, total expenditure has Operations started in February 2021 initially for the pupils of The Milestone School, Covid-19. started in January 2019 and completed at the end of 2020, delayed due to the impact of and sports area (Phase One) came into use in November 2017; building of the Centre funds raised allowed us to complete and fit-out the building. The outdoor adventure play We continue to contain expenditure within a very tight budget, ensuring that most of the d. Expenditure direct fundraising campaign. management tool and new website which we plan to launch in December along with our we struggled. We have invested in technology including a customer relationship as many funders continued to support their existing charities and as a new operation our existing supporters, we found this challenging due to the coronavirus pandemic whilst we had a good initial response to our direct fundraising campaign in 2021 from The fundraising efforts are now focused on the operational running costs of the Centre, c. Fundraising
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h. Ambitions
Unique soft play area support future running costs. launch of a direct fundraising campaign aiming to build a healthy funding stream to Major grant funding continues to be our main fundraising focus, along with planned measure impact and support fundraising. Our research programme will provide valuable data to help develop these services, safeguards and controls will continue to protect the Charity and its IT systems. to our activities and programmes by our members. Implementation of appropriate The launch of our website is imminent and will improve operating efficiencies and access research and services. fundraising efforts are crucial to ensure sustainability and investment in our staff, Covid-19 we continue to build a strong team and develop additional services. The The Trustees are excited about the year ahead, despite the ongoing challenges of unrestricted available free reserves. annually. Based on forecast expenditure reserves policy set at £120,000, within the budget to ensure sustainability of the operations. Our reserves policy is reviewed being unable to run the Centre. This assists with strategic planning and preparation of high to limit the amount that we spend on our charitable activities, or too low to risk The Charity has a reserves policy, set at 3 month’s forecast expenditure which isn’t too g. Reserves Policy
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Dr Marie Owen Chair Details of the Trustees are noted below: good governance. of the school’s governing body. document. b. Board of Trustees Governing documents a. Constitution
Project. National Paralympic medical assessor for RaceRunning. Children’s Opportunity Centre. Former paediatric consultant to the Chernobyl Children’s Former Chair of Trustees of The Milestone Holiday Playscheme and The Forest of Dean Nigel Hunter Nursery, a therapeutic playgroup for pre school children with special needs, 2002. Trustee of the Pied Piper Appeal. Founder and former Chair of Trustees of the interest in neurodevelopment, who has been a governor of The Milestone School since , a retired paediatrician from Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, with an Currently the Board has significant experience across a range of professions to ensure committees includes Trustees, CEO, Finance and additional relevant personnel. Subcommittees include HR, Finance, Operations and Safeguarding. Membership of the regulates its administration and the management of its finances and assets. Trustees meets monthly, determines the ongoing strategic direction of the Charity and Appointment is subject to satisfactory references and statutory checks. The Board of and their commitment to the charitable objectives of The Chamwell Centre Charity. New members are elected based on the skills needed to complement the Trustee body, competencies, community representation and promote diversity. the process of reviewing membership to ensure we maintain the right mix of skills, The Board aims to review its membership and skill mix every three years. We are in should be drawn from The Milestone School including the Headteacher and a member In practice there are between nine and twelve Trustees. At least three of these trustees The Board of Trustees is constituted and regulated in accordance with the governing Wales, took place on 17 July 2015, Company Number 09692163. Registration of The Chamwell Centre Charity with Companies House, in England and and Wales on 19 June 2015 (Registered Number 1162321). The Chamwell Centre Charity was registered with the Charity Commission in England The governing document is the Memorandum and Articles of Association. Structure, Governance and Management
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The Charity outsourced its HR function, website development, IT and CRM support. per month. engaged as Head of Finance. She is engaged by the Charity for approximately eight days Mrs Denise Finch, Associate of the Chartered Instituted of Bankers and CertBFM is amounting to an average of two days per month. all aspects of fundraising and to assist with writing grant applications on an ad hoc basis, The Charity continues to engage Mrs Liz Haigh Reeve of Fundraising Works to advise on e. Consultants Operations Manager and Community/Corporate Fundraisers. During 2022, the plan is to strengthen the team further with the appointment of Lone Worker. Rebound, Soft Play and Interactive Climbing Wall together with the Covid-19, Fire and Risk assessments are completed for use of all our facilities including Hydrotherapy pool, Operating, Fire Evacuation, Complaints and CCTV. Safeguarding, Safeguarding & Contractors, Normal Operating Policy, Pool Safety safeguarding children level 1 online training and an introduction to our policies including aims and values. Induction includes a review of the Employee handbook, enrolment onto All new staff and volunteers receive a personal induction to The Chamwell Centre, its HR People Support who provide professional advice on people and recruitment matters. fair and consistent, and promote inclusion, equality and diversity. We are supported by All recruitment and selection processes comply with legal requirements, these are clear, recruit people with the right skills, knowledge and experience to achieve our aims. governance, including the setting of the remuneration for key personnel. We aim to The HR committee has implemented various policies and procedures to ensure good required. & Governance Manager, Accounts & Payroll Manager, and various support staff as Charity Administrator, building a team including Lead Therapist, Cafe Manager, Quality in January 2021 initially as Operations Implementation Manager, supported by PA/ the administration, fundraising and running services, however CEO Gilli Appleby joined The Charity is building a strong team, Trustees and volunteers continue to help with d. Employees guidance on governance and trusteeship. requirements. All are encouraged to remain up to date with the Charity Commission courses to keep them informed of current issues in the sector and regulatory Members of the Board of Trustees attend external trustee training and information and procedures. are inducted in the workings of The Chamwell Centre Charity, including Trustee policies interview with the Board, in accordance with Charity Commission guidance CC30. They New Trustees are recruited by personal recommendation, external references, and an c. Recruitment and training of Trustees
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and a host of other activities. groups, dance, theatre, music, area used for teaching, youth The Levinge Suite is a multi-use
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‘Changing Places’ bathroom
The Chamwell Centre cafe
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control measures in the handling of donations. collected were either via a donation tin and/or Gift Aid envelopes, always applying dual Fundraising events last year were limited due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Any monies fundraising activities. Chamwell Centre website, launched in November 2021, is a key component of our to achieve both corporate and community fundraising targets. The new and vibrant delivery of activities and programmes. We are in the process of recruiting fundraiser(s) fundraising, we are now focused on raising funds for the operation of the building and Having achieved our capital build target through grant applications and donor the Chamwell Centre for the children and young adults who use our facilities. potential donors and benefactors, enabling them to see first-hand the positive impact of successful in generating funds and support. We continue to showcase Chamwell to Guided visits to the school and the Centre during the build stage were especially Commission’s guide to fundraising. The Chair of Trustees leads on the fundraising strategy and is mindful of the Charity and professional management of children and vulnerable adults. support. We have a Safeguarding Policy, ratified by the Board of Trustees, for the safe any possible donor who may be in a vulnerable circumstance or need extra care and We aim to be legal, open, honest and respectful - taking into account the needs of process. To date there are no complaints to report. of Fundraising Practice, and we are cognisant of the regulator’s complaints handling The Chamwell Centre Charity adopts the principles of the Funding Regulator Code support provided. fund raising, continually under review to ensure continued quality and appropriate Regulator. A fund raising report is presented at every board meeting and use of external Chamwell Centre Charity. Fundraising Works is a company regulated by The Funding has proven a very fruitful relationship, with continued success in accruing funds for the Fundraising Works CEO Mrs Liz Haigh-Reeve continues to assist with fundraising. This Information on fundraising practices
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Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Foundation 2 (Anonymous) Foundation 1 (Anonymous) February Foundation (The) Edward Gostling Foundation (The) Dame Violet Wills Will Trust Creed Foodservice Clothworkers Foundation (The) Cheltenham College Prefects Charles & Sian Jennings Bruce Wake Charitable Trust Bradbury Foundation (Hong Kong) Bovis Homes Bernard Sunley Foundation (Laing Family Trusts) Beatrice Laing Trust Barnwood Trust Balcarras School Baily Thomas Charitable Fund (The) Allchurches Trust (Ecclesiastical) Albert Hunt Trust (The) Active Glos (Sportivate) The 29th May 1961 Charity
Chamwell Supporters table to July 2020
Woodenspoon Wolfson Foundation (The) Thomas Wall Trust Summerfield Trust (The) St James’s Place Charitable Foundation Smith’s Construction Renishaw staff charity Peter Harrison Foundation Pied Piper Appeal (The) Dr Marie Owen (Forest of Dean Branch) Muscular Dystrophy UK Mid Counties Cooperative Society Masonic Charitable Foundation Gloucestershire (The) Honorable Company of Portlock Fund GMC Action (Glos Masons) Trevor (Changing Places) Gloucestershire County Council Gloucester City Council (Youth Grant) Gloucester City Council (RaceRunners) Gloucestershire Disability Fund Gloucestershire Community Foundation
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