Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

LIFE EDUCATION EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED 

The charity delivers Health Promotion & Drug Resistence Education programmes to young people in East Midlands as a supplement to the school curriculum. It also delivers parenting programmes, running courses on behalf of Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
  • 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£367£299£68n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£220£184£37n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£141£133£8n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£162£164£-2n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/19£142£159£-17n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£150£139£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£136£148£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£132£145£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£142£121£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£114£122£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£128£120£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£143£111£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£174£164£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£183£177£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£172£189£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£187£248£-62£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£214£255£-41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£216£214£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£219£217£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£212£212£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 26 years

https://lecn.co.uk/

admin@lifeeducationeastmidlands.co.uk

07769384490

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Education support services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 29/10/2021
To have a positive impact on children’s well being and progress based on the core values of safety, caring, achievement, resilience and friendship, and to equip children to make healthy choices.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Life Education Centre Nottinghamshire
£2,954 23/10/2021
We would like to provide virtual, interactive ""SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship) Live On-line"" workshops to schools in Radcliffe on Trent, Cotgrave and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Life Education Centre
£2,516 24/10/2020
Educate children about the importance of healthy lifestyles and drug prevention and the need to value their bodies.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-83
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/01/1998, number: 1067601
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/06/1996, number: 03207842
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from LIFE EDUCATION CENTRES (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE) LIMITED on 13/01/2023
Main office

128 Ramsey Drive
Arnold
NOTTINGHAM
NG5 6SD

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NOTTINGHAM, DERBY, DERBYSHIRE, LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NORTHAMPTON, BEDFORD, CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE, MILTON KEYNES(THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE AREAS OF THE DANGERS OF DRUGS, ADDICTIVE MATERIALS AND SUBSTANCES PRIMARILY BY OFFERING DRUG PREVENTIVE PROGRAMMES AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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