Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

ENFIELD VOLUNTARY ACTION 

Advice/Information on charity registration, organisational development; human resources, volunteering.Training - Chairing, Minute Taking, Roles & Responsibilities of Charity Trustees; funding applicationsFinance - setting up financial systems, SORP, PAYEPartnership workingVolunteering ++Â++º+-ª recruiting volunteers; becoming a volunteer; volunteering opportunities; interviewing volunteers
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • This charity only provides its support via other charities

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£984£921£63£106£763£4115.4113
31/03/22£911£860£51£78£700£4125.7142
31/03/21£867£719£148£67£648£3856.4145
31/03/20£583£526£57£73£500£3427.884
31/03/19£391£426£-35n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£331£350£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£313£359£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£379£374£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£371£372£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£400£365£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£397£396£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£462£560£-98£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£1,099£946£153£946£602£3023.8100
31/03/10£954£869£85£107£449£2553.590
31/03/09£803£772£30£110£363£2383.7100
31/03/08£678£705£-26£38£333£2223.8110
31/03/07£626£612£14£612£359£1723.4100
31/03/06£840£804£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£972£873£99£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£772£781£-10£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 32%
Liabilities/Income: 36%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 54%
Reserves/Spending: 5.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 3.1
Asset Split ?
Established: 25 years

www.enfieldva.org.uk

admin@enfieldva.org.uk

02083736268

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Enfield,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
  • 3 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£570,000
City Bridge Trust£181,575
Tudor Trust£93,800
Greater London Authority£9,969
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Enfield Voluntary and Community Response Project
£5,000 08/09/2023
Enfield Voluntary Action (EVA) wants to use lessons learnt from the Covid-19 Pandemic, particularly how plans are beneficial, but communication channels are essential to successful responses and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Enfield Together
£10,000 12/05/2023
The funding will be used to hold two community and voluntary sector events and to improve a digital directory of these groups. This project aims to celebrate the work of voluntary and community ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Enfield Voluntary Action
£176,800 12/04/2023
£176,800 over three years (£57,500, £59,300, £60,000) towards staff costs, room hire, associated project running costs and contribution to overheads for Enfield Voluntary Action's financial ....more
Greater London Authority - Enfield Voluntary and Community Response Project
£4,969 28/02/2023
Enfield Voluntary and Community Response Project Enfield Voluntary Action (EVA) wants to use lessons learnt from the Covid-19 Pandemic, particularly how plans are beneficial, but communication ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Enfield Voluntary Action
£2,000 13/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Enfield Voluntary Action
£4,775 15/12/2020
0
National Lottery Community Fund - Local Grants Programme - Enfield
£150,000 20/07/2020
6
EVA will use the funding to continue to offer extensive training and advice to the Voluntary Sector as well as managing small grants programmes and managing their own projects.
National Lottery Community Fund - Enfield Together - The Great Voluntary Sector Get Together
£10,000 24/02/2020
4
The funding will be used to host a celebration of community projects and initiatives. The project aims to bring people together and encourage people to focus on the strengths in their local area.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Enfield Voluntary Action
£91,800 13/08/2019
36
over three years towards outreach work to develop youth activities, linked to Enfield Voluntary Action's new online Connect Well Enfield directory
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Health Champions Enfield
£400,000 30/05/2019
36
The project will use the funding to train and support 'Health Champions' to increase knowledge and awareness of health issues to transform health and wellbeing in their communities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Enfield Together – the Great Voluntary Get Together
£10,000 21/03/2018
12
The group will deliver a series of events to bring communities together. This will improve social engagement and increase volunteering capacity.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Enfield Voluntary Action
£100,500 27/07/2017
24
£100,500 over two years (£50,000; £50,500) towards the salaries of a Community Accountant (21hrs) and Development and Funding Advice Manager (15hrs) and running costs, to provide monitoring and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Discover and Share
£388,266 19/04/2017
48
This group will expand a project that aims to reduce isolation and extend networks of support, improve relationships and leadership, confidence and employability skills for parents from deprived and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Enfield Voluntary Action
£123,000 19/06/2014
36
£123,000 over 3 years (£26,200; £48,200; £48,600) towards a Community Accountant and Development and Funding Advice Manager and on-costs, provide monitoring and evaluation and financial training ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Enfield Voluntary Action (Development Grant)
£14,468 15/01/2014
3
Enfield Voluntary Action (Development Grant)
Tudor Trust - Grant to Enfield Voluntary Action
£40,000 17/05/2013
24
over two years towards the running costs of a project offering after school activities to children and their parents from White working class backgrounds
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-78
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/10/1999, number: 1077857
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/04/1999, number: 03755382
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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; AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

COMMUNITY HOUSE
311 FORE STREET
LONDON
N9 0PZ

Objectives

A) THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF ENFIELD AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESSB) THE PROMOTION AND ORGANISATION OF CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF ENFIELD

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF ENFIELD

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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