Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

ABILITY BOW 

By providing specialist disability exercise support in a community gym and neighbouring locations Ability Bow works with people of all abilities to bring about positive change and maximise health and well-being to improve quality of daily life in the communities of East London.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and 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
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£248£247£2n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£246£272£-26n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£352£251£100n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£214£299£-84n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/19£291£292£0n/an/an/an/an/a31
31/03/18*£291£267£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£274£277£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£311£307£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£264£259£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£245£241£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£275£262£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£269£267£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£228£250£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£222£230£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£208£221£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£125£128£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£139£89£50£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.abilitybow.org

info@abilitybow.org

02089807778

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hackney, Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 volunteers

Who's supporting 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
City Bridge Trust£145,812
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
DCMS£9,910
The London Community Foundation£7,730
London Catalyst£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
London Catalyst - Ability Bow - 5
£4,000 14/11/2023
Autism Friendly Exercise
National Lottery Community Fund - Keep Active & Connected
£10,000 15/09/2023
The funding will be used to deliver specialised group exercise and social sessions for adults with disabilities and/or chronic health conditions. The project aims to reduce accessibility barriers ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Ability Bow
£89,200 13/11/2020
£89,200 over 2 further and final years (£44,100; £45,100) towards a full-time Positive Steps Development Instructor and other associated costs of the Positive Steps project.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Ability Bow
£48,162 28/09/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application, including staff costs for two instructors (totalling 60 hpw) and an administrator (35 hpw) and associated supervision and overhead costs, to sustain ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,910 08/07/2020
"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 London Community Foundation - Grant to Ability Bow
£7,730 30/04/2020
A specialist exercise instructor to create condition-specific exercise livestream sessions for disabled people and people with complex health issues, and to support them to be active at home with ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Ability Bow
£8,450 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £8,450, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
National Lottery Community Fund - Disabled People Get Active and Volunteer
£9,820 03/08/2018
12
The funding will be used to hire a volunteer development leader. The project aims to help people living with disabilities become more independent and engaged in their community.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ability Bow
£5,888 29/11/2017
We need funds to offer exercise and well-being activities to frail/isolated older people for mobility, independence and social contact.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Ability Bow
£98,900 20/03/2017
36
£98,900 over 3 years (£32,300, £32,800; £33,800) for a Positive Steps Development Instructor (14 h/p/w), sessional workers and the associated costs of the Positive Steps project.
National Lottery Community Fund - Deafability - deaf and hard of hearing people get active and join in!
£9,958 18/01/2017
12
This project will provide a health and wellbeing programme, including exercise sessions, events providing healthy living advice, outreach visits and a social club, for people with hearing impairment.
Sport England - People with learning disabilities keep fit and active
£7,265 29/03/2016
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled People with learning disabilities keep fit and active. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with ....more
London Catalyst - Ability Bow - 4
£4,000 20/08/2014
Join In programme to enable people with LTC and disabilities to improve health and independence
Sport England - Heart Ability - group exercise for people with heart disease
£9,250 08/05/2013
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Heart Ability - group exercise for people with heart disease'. This project is a Exercise & Fitness ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Ability Bow
£34,900 26/04/2013
the salary costs of the Operations Manager including travel and training costs
London Catalyst - Ability Bow - 3
£6,500 15/08/2012
funding for Development Worker for Positive Steps to help well being of those with mental health issues in Tower Hamlets and Hackney
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-68
  • STUART DAVIES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeship: LEGS,
  • SWATI BHATTI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Data Analytics Specialist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/07/2006, number: 1115595
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/04/2006, number: 05800086
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
  • 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
17 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR13: 9 days late, AR09: 138 days late, AR08: 0 days late, AR07: 59 days late,
Main office

ST. PAULS CHURCH
ST. STEPHENS ROAD
LONDON
E3 5JL

Objectives

1) THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH THROUGH THE PURSUIT OF HEALTHY RECREATION2) THE PROVISION OF A GYM AND FITNESS CLASSES THAT ARE OPEN TO EVERYONE, PARTICULARLY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND THOSE WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE USE OR HAVE ACCESS TO A GYM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, TOWER HAMLETS, HACKNEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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