Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

THE SCHONFELD SQUARE FOUNDATION 

The Schonfeld Square Foundation has a wide range of therapeutic and recreational activities for the elderly and infirm and has specialist provision for people with dementia.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • 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
  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£172£77£95n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£62£109£-46n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£37£42£-6n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£187£105£82n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/19*£54£63£-10n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18*£17£70£-53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£49£56£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£50£61£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£101£150£-49£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£121£270£-149£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£137£87£49£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£56£64£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£44£87£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£160£177£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£258£294£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£367£322£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£71£38£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£75£84£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£113£82£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£184£54£130£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 29 years

schonfeld.square.foundation@gmail.com

02088023819

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for the elderly
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hackney,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - United in Talent
£9,996 01/07/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of activities for older people from the Orthodox Jewish community including local care home residents. This will include learning and creative ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Schonfeld Square Foundation
£5,000 15/06/2020
£5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Elderly Entertained
£9,980 15/02/2019
12
The project will deliver a range of intergenerational activities. The aim is to bring people together to reduce isolation.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/09/1995, number: 1049179
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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
  • 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; AR19: 124 days late, AR18: 187 days late, AR17: 211 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 30 days late, AR14: 27 days late, AR12: 38 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

206 Lordship Road
London
N16 5ES

Objectives

(1) THE RELIEF OF THE AGED, INFIRM AND DISABLED BY: (A) THE PROVISION OF ACCOMODATION, CARE, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND OTHER BENEFITS; (B) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE AGED, INFIRM AND DISABLED AND THEIR CARERS; (C) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO OTHER REGISTERED CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS WITH OBJECTS SIMILAR TO THOSE REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPHS (A), (B) AND (C) ABOVE. (11) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY. (111) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH EDUCATION. (IV) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE RELIGION OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX PRACTICE INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE AS TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE SYNAGOGUE SITUATE WITHIN THE SCHONFELD SQUARE HOME, SCHONFELD SQUARE, LONDON N16 . (V) TOWARDS SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE HACKNEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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