Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 2
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

RELATE LONDON NORTH WEST, HERTFORDSHIRE, MID THAMES AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 

The services are in 3 main areas:Counselling - relationship, individual, family and children's counselling, psychosexual therapyMediation - family, workplace and housing mediationEducation - training, CPD and peer listening for schools and life skills for individualsAlso run a child contact centre
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,297£1,280£18£0£1,193£1,09010.27212
31/03/22£1,264£1,005£259£0£685£58377010
31/03/21£1,264£1,005£259£0£685£58377012
31/03/20£977£1,016£-38£0£426£3243.89512
31/03/19£943£1,001£-58£0£465£3634.310014
31/03/18£987£895£92£0£523£4115.5640
31/03/17£823£804£19£0£431£4316.4300
31/03/16£802£783£20£0£412£4126.3220
31/03/15£706£732£-26£21£392£3926.4210
31/03/14£695£708£-13£103£418£4187.1210
31/03/13£739£737£2£94£431£4196.8200
31/03/12£758£758£0£99£429£4066.4200
31/03/11£774£734£40£101£429£4146.8190
31/03/10£690£614£76£70£389£3887.6180
31/03/09£566£535£31£78£313£2996.7110
31/03/08£560£511£49£75£282£1092.6170
31/03/07£531£509£22£57£233£1012.4170
31/03/06£461£454£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£489£431£57£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£422£409£13£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 10.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 28 years

https://www.relate.org.uk/centre/london-north

ewan.malcolm@relate.org.uk

02088634543

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Brent, Camden, City Of Westminster, Ealing, Harrow, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Islington,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 72 employees
  • 12 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 - Relationship counselling during the Covid 19 crisis
£10,000 15/05/2020
7
The funding will be used to provide counselling to individuals couples families and young people via webcam and telephone. The project aims to reduce anxiety improve mental health and tackle domestic ....more
Ministry of Justice - ALB - Cafcass - Supported Child Contact Centres (SCCC) Grant 19-20
£2,805 01/04/2019
Provide support for contact centres
National Lottery Community Fund - Modernisation of IT equipment to facilitate merger / expansion and com
£10,000 26/07/2017
12
This project will purchase new computer equipment that will improve the organisation’s delivery of its counselling services for the local community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Relate in North London a new property
£10,000 16/09/2010
12
This is a project by a community group in Enfield which will use the funding to install soundproof partitioning in new premises in Southgate to create private counselling rooms for clients. This will ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-76
  • FATIMA PATEL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired Company Director
  • NICOLA TAVENDER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Titleglobal Leadership & Talent Development Lead
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/02/1996, number: 1053223
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/12/1995, number: 03141164
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from RELATE DACORUM, WATFORD & THREE RIVERS on 10/03/2020
Main office

Relate
The Gables
3 St. Marys Road
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
Hertfordshire
HP2 5HL

Objectives

1. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE BENEFITS OF SECURE COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE EMOTIONAL, SEXUAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS WHICH IS DERIVED FROM COMMITTED RELATIONSHIPS;2. TO SEEK TO ENHANCE, THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN BY:2.1. INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE BENEFIT OF COMMITTED COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY LIFE; AND2.2. WORKING TO PREVENT POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAKDOWN OF SUCH RELATIONSHIPS;3. TO PROVIDE COUNSELLING, ADVICE, EDUCATION, GUIDANCE AND RELIEF TO ADULTS AND/OR CHILDREN IN RELATION TO ANY ASPECT OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE OR WORK WHICH:3.1. MAY PREJUDICE THEIR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL WELL BEING; OR3.2. INFLUENCE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THEIR PRESENT OR FUTURE FAMILY OR COUPLE RELATIONSHIP;4. TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND5. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO ALL OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS AND TO MAKE THE RESULTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGHS OF HARROW, EALING, HILLINGDON AND BRENT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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