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Description
Alternatives offers life-changing emotional and practical support for anyone facing pregnancy-related challenges. We offer counselling, a baby box project and we have a Mother & Baby charity shop in Watford & Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
Also known as
- Alternatives Watford
- Alternatives Watford
- Alternatives Watford Pregnancy Crisis & Support Centre
- Connections (Watford) London Ltd
- Connections (Watford) London Ltd
- Girl About and Connections
CCEW Charity number
Company number
Registered
Postcode
HP1 1BA
Website
Latest income
£79,533 (on )
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Area of operation in the UK
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1100024 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
Alternatives Watford (this record)
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Other individual and family services
D19
UK Charity Activity Tags
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Beneficiary group
BE» WomenBE113 -
Charitable activities
CA» Charity shopsCA102 -
Health
HE» Health conditionHE200» MaternityHE209 -
Health
HE» Health servicesHE300» Counselling and therapyHE304
Theme (CCEW)
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Other Charitable Purposes
117
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
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Other Defined Groups
206
Activities (CCEW)
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Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307
Scale of operation
- Local
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 2003-10-13 |
Registered as a charity |
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| 2005-03-31 | 86,002 | 77,649 |
| 2006-03-31 | 56,680 | 67,070 |
| 2007-03-31 | 62,290 | 63,757 |
| 2008-03-31 | 57,197 | 69,123 |
| 2009-03-31 | 66,585 | 76,437 |
| 2010-03-31 | 90,717 | 72,626 |
| 2011-03-31 | 89,906 | 86,898 |
| 2012-03-31 | 70,547 | 67,203 |
| 2013-03-31 | 54,738 | 63,895 |
| 2014-03-31 | 68,736 | 57,026 |
| 2015-03-31 | 56,490 | 54,724 |
| 2016-03-31 | 56,490 | 54,724 |
| 2017-03-31 | 69,542 | 66,401 |
| 2018-03-31 | 88,202 | 74,121 |
| 2019-03-31 | 50,353 | 55,202 |
| 2020-03-31 | 127,159 | 128,267 |
| 2021-03-31 | 161,448 | 107,253 |
| 2022-03-31 | 104,341 | 103,261 |
| 2023-03-31 | 79,533 | 78,479 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | - | - |
| Volunteers | 13 | 35 |
| Trustees | 5 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| None recorded | ||
| Government grants | ||
| Income from government grants | - | 8,893 |
| Government grants as % of total income | - | 8.5% |
| Number of government grants | - | 3 |
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All England |
£10,000
11 months |
Pregnancy-related Counselling Services
Sep 2020 to Aug 2021 |
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Hertfordshire Community Foundation
Emergency Coronavirus Fund |
£4,500
3 months |
Alternatives Counselling Service
Apr 2020 to Jul 2020 |
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Hertfordshire Community Foundation
Foundation - Large |
£5,000
1 year |
Grant to Alternatives Watford Pregnancy Crisis & Support Centre
Jun 2019 to Jun 2020 |
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The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All |
£10,000
1 year |
Alternatives Hemel Hempstead Pregnancy
May 2019 to May 2020 |
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
HMT Tampon Tax 16/17 Fund |
£8,300 | Rosa Fund, Tampon Tax | ||
|
Rosa UK
Woman to Woman |
£8,300
1 year |
W2W R2-ALTWAT-2017
Dec 2017 to Dec 2018 |
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The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All |
£660
1 year |
Girlabout
Jul 2005 to Jul 2006 |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Cabinet Office (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Hertfordshire Community Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Rosa UK (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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