Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 14

WATFORD AND THREE RIVERS TRUST

Strengthening Watford's voluntary sector through leadership, support, advice and example.

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
Fundraising costs are unusually 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Established: 23 years

http://w3rt.org

enquiries@w3rt.org

07535654858

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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	£3,608	£3,257	£351	£0	£896	£839	3.1	40	300
31/03/22	£3,441	£3,262	£179	£0	£546	£386	1.4	42	517
31/03/21	£2,358	£2,313	£45	£0	£355	£235	1.2	45	300
31/03/20	£1,747	£1,703	£44	£0	£311	£258	1.8	52	30
31/03/19	£1,543	£1,538	£6	£0	£267	£235	1.8	42	30
31/03/18	£1,179	£1,027	£152	£0	£252	£213	2.5	35	0
31/03/17	£990	£1,013	£-23	£0	£100	£71	0.8	43	0
31/03/16	£967	£872	£94	£6	£126	£87	1.2	41	0
31/03/15	£769	£824	£-55	£3	£89	£62	0.9	21	0
31/03/14	£641	£682	£-41	£2	£143	£94	1.7	15	0
31/03/13	£473	£440	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£404	£355	£49	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£459	£455	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£420	£422	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£377	£411	£-34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£363	£336	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£279	£288	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£245	£226	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£216	£172	£43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£156	£154	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 28%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 94%
Reserves/Spending: 3.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.2

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Hertfordshire,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

40 employees
300 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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	18/03/2022	A Slice of Happiness SPAs
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Getting Together
£400,000	12/01/2022	Grant to Watford & Three Rivers Trust
National Lottery Community Fund - Neighbours Together
£308,780	22/11/2018 36	The organisation aims to promote, support and deliver activities that encourage constructive engagement and strengthen the local community. It will use funding to fund three fulltime salaries, as ....more The organisation aims to promote, support and deliver activities that encourage constructive engagement and strengthen the local community. It will use funding to fund three fulltime salaries, as well as cover general running expenses and build capacity.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Watford and Three Rivers Trust
£10,000	18/07/2017	Sharing is Caring: Enabling resilience in older people

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees:

HARJIT SINGH GREWAL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Community Development Worker, Other trusteeship: ONE VISION,

JOHN CASSTLES, Occupation: Retired

MOHAMMAD KHALEEL CHOWDHREE Appointed: 2024, Other trusteeships: FATIMID FOUNDATION, MULTI CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTRE,

MR ALEC RAY Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Project Management Consultant

PAMELA PARMAR Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Director

RACHEL FOWLER Appointed: 2024

SIMON ALEXANDER MITCHELL Appointed: 2024

STEPHEN MCNICHOLAS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Construction Director

SYD NADIM (Chair) Appointed: 2021

VISUWANATHAN EASWARAKUMAR Appointed: 2024

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/03/2001, number: 1085518

Gift Aid

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
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; all on time

Main office

Holywell Community Centre
Tolpits Lane
WATFORD
WD18 9QD

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE BOROUGH OF WATFORD OR THE DISTRICT OF THREE RIVERS OR THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF WATFORD OR THE DISTRICT OF THREE RIVERS OR THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS

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