Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Positive trading contribution: +2;Good reserves management: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

UNION CHAPEL PROJECT

Union Chapel is an independent secular charity operating within the church building. It has a dual charitable remit to restore the building and to open it up to arts, community and heritage interest. We also run a in house centre called Margins, offering hot meals, winter shelter and advice to people on the margins of society.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,509£1,748£-239£20£773£5753.940100
31/03/22£1,316£1,020£295£46£1,012£4555.4410
31/03/21*£1,278£1,249£28£564£716£4894.75965
31/03/20£1,724£1,885£-161£1,150£688£5803.77765
31/03/19£1,897£1,788£109£1,167£849£74357465
31/03/18*£1,702£1,803£-101£1,020£739£5563.7630
31/03/17£1,550£1,286£264£777£840£6285.9530
31/03/16£1,312£1,227£86£704£576£4514.4530
31/03/15£1,180£1,160£20£664£490£4024.2190
31/03/14£1,161£907£254£555£470£3995.3170
31/03/13£1,192£1,098£94£418£215£1771.9130
31/03/12£1,061£1,197£-136£448£121£1071.1130
31/03/11£1,013£928£85£375£257£2493.2140
31/03/10£682£559£124£247£172£1322.860
31/03/09£509£610£-101£182£48£410.860
31/03/08£419£357£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£479£371£108n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£419£540£-121n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£351£384£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£618£631£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 48%
Liabilities/Income: 47%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 74%
Reserves/Spending: 3.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 33 years

www.unionchapel.org.uk

accounts@unionchapel.org.uk

02071010090

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Church maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Islington,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
DCMS£486,642
The Clothworkers Foundation£100,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£75,000
Wolfson Foundation£65,000
The Foyle Foundation£50,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£40,000
Youth Music£28,858
The Pilgrim Trust£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Union Chapel Project
£25,000 04/10/2023
To support the urgent and vital repair of Union Chapel's historically important organ
Youth Music - Youth In Union
£28,858 19/06/2023
Youth In Union
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£10,652 07/04/2023
Covid response
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Union Chapel Project
£100,000 29/11/2022
Refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged minority communities in london
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£50,000 20/09/2022
towards work to the Grade II listed Sunday School Hall into a local community-led arts and culture centre
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 06/05/2022
Union Chapel - Sunday School Stories
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£156,325 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further funding in order to be able to operate on a ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 09/12/2020
3
Union Chapel is an umbrella organisation that helps co-ordinate two main divisions: Union Chapel Directions – a trading subsidiary that runs an award winning venue, bar and kiosk; and The Margins Project – a charitable subsidiary that provides ....more
DCMS - Union Chapel, London
£14,722 13/11/2020
Emergency repair works to two chapel windows and to replace the corridor and link roof cover
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£75,873 29/07/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Union Chapel Project
£65,000 11/06/2020
Restoration of the Sunday School building. Grant converted to unrestricted funding in July 2020 in response to Covid-19 pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Union Chapel
£22,150 11/06/2020
£22,150.00 towards costs as outlined in your application excluding redeployed staffing costs and core costs.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 22/04/2020
2
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Union Chapel Project (Covid-19 Emergency Response)
£39,767 01/04/2020
This project will be a great support to secure Union Chapel heritage assets, make activities accessible and create a future legacy, keeping our buildings open albeit digitally. Through working with new and existing practitioners, we will find ....more
DCMS - Union Chapel Project
£133,303 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Union Chapel Project
£66,652 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Union Chapel Project
£86,100 27/11/2018
Union Chapel's Sunday School Stories - a tale of dissent and social change
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Union Chapel Project
£10,000 03/11/2016
Modern Masculinity and the First World War
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-72
  • FAJER QASEM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Product Manager
  • GORDON MONTGOMERY Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Recruitment Director
  • HUW ARFON WILLIAMS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Librarian
  • JEAN APPLEYARD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Accountant
  • KATHRYN LOUISE DIXON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • PHILIP IAN WALKER Appointed: 2000, Occupation: Surveyor
  • TOM LINTON-SMITH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: None
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/03/1992, number: 1010166
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/02/1991, number: 02583801
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
20 returns made; AR21: 1 days late, AR18: 48 days late, AR05: 114 days late, AR04: 25 days late,
Main office

19B Compton Terrace
LONDON
N1 2UN

Objectives

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF UNION CHAPEL ISLINGTON AND TO PROMOTE THEREIN SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW AND WHICH ARE NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THE BELIEF IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS THE INCARNATE SON OF GOD AND THE REDEEMER OF MEN AND IN THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THE AUTHOR OF SPIRITUAL LIFE AND WITH RECOGNITION OF THE DIVINELY INSPIRED SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS AS THE SUPREME AND SUFFICIENT RULE OF FAITH AND PRACTICE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ISLINGTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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