Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 28 ?

DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION

We are the Drive Forward Foundation, a charity with one mission…. To equip care leavers with all the tools they need to take charge of their lives; their lives now and their lives in the future. We want to inspire care leavers to discover and unleash their own true potential; to seize opportunities and go out into the world to really make change happen.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

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£1,033£922£111£52£1,101£1,02713.41761
31/03/22£941£843£98£37£990£81311.61753
31/03/21£1,179£704£475£8£892£67911.61663
31/03/20£989£731£258£11£417£2333.81655
31/03/19£550£517£33£11£159£1152.71152
31/03/18£444£537£-93n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£391£556£-165n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£751£431£320£26£385£2456.8110
31/03/15£324£325£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£286£267£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£199£183£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£126£114£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£92£121£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£135£190£-55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£179£241£-62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£62£154£-92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£63£125£-62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£52£63£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£137£137£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/03/04*£31£125£-94n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 12%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 93%
Reserves/Spending: 13.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 7.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 32 years

www.driveforwardfoundation.org

anton@driveforwardfoundation.org

07848889191

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
Greenwood Place£405,000
Esmee Fairbairn£260,000
The Blagrave Trust£230,000
Department for Education£149,944
CHK Foundation£134,300
City Bridge Trust£97,500
The Segelman Trust£70,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Blagrave Trust - Policy and Advocacy Grants
£70,000 17/07/2023
Combined unrestricted funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION
£200,000 29/03/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation empowering care-experienced young people to achieve their full potential through sustainable and fulfilling employment, and use their experiences to ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£2,300 10/02/2023
to support specified work
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£70,000 29/11/2022
Towards the cost of Aspire - an earlier intervention propgramme aimed at supporting care experienced young people aged 15-17
Greenwood Place - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£100,000 01/07/2022
Unrestricted funding
The Blagrave Trust - Combined unrestricted funding
£70,000 21/06/2022
Unrestricted funding combining existing policy funding grant and new policy professions grant.
Greenwood Place - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£50,000 01/04/2022
Unrestricted funding
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£92,000 08/12/2021
to support specified work
Greenwood Place - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£75,000 01/07/2021
Unrestricted funding
Greenwood Place - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£50,000 01/04/2021
Unrestricted funding
The Blagrave Trust - Policy and advocacy work
£90,000 16/03/2021
Additional welfare grant: total funding increased by £400 in December 2021.
Greenwood Place - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£80,000 31/07/2020
Unrestricted funding
Department for Education - Support for Care Leavers
£50,000 18/06/2020
Organisations who provide advice and support to people who are pushed into crisis
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£60,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - COVID19 Rapid Response Fund Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£10,000 16/04/2020
12
To be allocated where most needed in the organisation's current mission to mitigate against the effects of Covid-19 amongst their care-experienced beneficiaries including therapeutic support as well ....more
Department for Education - DCMS Covid-19 funding
£99,944 01/04/2020
To provide support due to the COVID-19 pandemic to three care leaver's charities (Become, the Care Leavers Association and the Drive Forward Foundation - £150k budgeted for that), to Grandparents ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£40,000 17/03/2020
to support ongoing work
Greenwood Place - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£50,000 01/03/2020
Unrestricted funding
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£97,500 30/10/2019
36
£97,500 over three years (£31,500; £32,500; £33,500) for the salary of a full-time Employment Consultant and on-costs.
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£105,000 16/04/2019
36
To support the development of a Policy Forum Group, enabling young people with care experience to play a significant and active role in improving experiences for both their peers and the next ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£50,000 15/04/2019
24
To support the salary of the Operations Director.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£334,012 08/03/2019
36
Drive Forward Early Intervention Programme, helping and supporting care leavers to achieve their full potential with sustainable employment opportunities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 05/12/2018
Vital Fuel
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£151,000 29/11/2018
for a three year project supporting young people aged 14-16 in care to transition to adulthood and further or higher education and/or work.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£360,000 06/11/2018
36
Towards the core costs of an organisation that works to support care leavers into sustained employment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Train 2 Change
£9,110 24/01/2018
12
This project will deliver a programme of employment training activities that will support vulnerable young people who have left the care system. This will improve self-esteem and chances in life.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£2,800 10/01/2018
To provide tailored support to young people in and leaving care to help them find and progress in the career of their choice.
Greater London Authority - Care Leavers into Work (YIF)
£299,643 18/09/2017
Supporting and moving Care Leavers into sustained employment.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£50,000 30/03/2017
24
To support the salary of the Operations Director.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£50,000 28/04/2016
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the director's salary and associated costs at an organisation providing tailored support to young care leavers on career and employment choices across ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£88,400 03/12/2015
36
towards three years' salary of an Employment Consultant at a project providing practical and emotional support to care leavers in London, to help them move into education, work or training
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£405,000 16/09/2015
36
Towards core costs to enable the organisation to become self-sustaining in its practical and emotional support offering for care leavers which enables them to move into work, education or training.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£7,500 17/12/2014
as development grant towards external evaluation and costing research for an organisation providing tailored support to young care leavers on career and employment choices in London
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£32,000 29/07/2013
The charity supports care leavers to access education, training and employment. Service users come from across London to access services and the funding will allow the charity to continue to support ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Drive Forward Foundation
£79,429 01/12/2011
Towards core costs for a project that will help care leavers in Central London to find sustainable employment.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-63
  • ANTHONY FREDERICK SIMPSON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Management Consultant
  • JORDAN MORGAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Programme Manager
  • MAGGIE COLLIER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
  • RICHARD JOHNSTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Ceo
  • SHONA NICHOLS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Ceo
  • SIR MAX HILL (Chair) Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Barrister
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/03/1993, number: 1018750
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/02/1992, number: 02688742
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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; AR14: 45 days late, AR09: 10 days late, AR08: 997 days late, AR06: 1728 days late, AR05: 10 days late, AR04: 2 days late,
Main office

1st & 2nd floors
14/15 Lower Marsh
London
SE1 7RJ

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF NEEDY PERSONS, ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UK.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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