Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 3
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

FREDERICKS FOUNDATION 

We assist social enterprises and individual entrepreneurs to start or grow their existing business by offering responsible financing solutions and on-going business guidance and support, which can include advice and support from a volunteer mentor.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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£71£131£-60n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£173£116£56n/an/an/an/an/a175
31/03/21£335£597£-262n/an/an/an/an/a175
31/03/20£369£449£-80n/an/an/an/an/a160
31/03/19£560£556£3£56£1,055£1663.66400
31/03/18£649£547£102£29£1,052£501.160
31/03/17£429£769£-340£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£486£1,312£-826£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£722£1,203£-482£43£2,044£1,16311.6220
31/03/14£2,444£1,407£1,037£10£2,526£1,31811.2170
31/03/13£1,937£1,375£562£13£1,489£6495.7170
31/03/12£400£748£-348£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£875£764£110£27£1,283£89214130
31/03/10£634£762£-128£75£1,173£80512.7130
31/03/09£1,184£760£424£88£1,301£75211.990
31/03/08£1,032£811£221£97£877£5658.470
31/03/07£560£599£-39£108£657£3597.270
31/03/06£1,037£832£205£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£587£316£271£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£533£356£177£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 23 years

www.fredericksfoundation.org

info@fredericksfoundation.org

01276472722

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides other finance
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,999 24/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Advice and support
£5,000 22/06/2020
Funding to staff a helpdesk aimed at low income and financially excluded families who largely fall outside the government financial support packages during the Coronavirus pandemic
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£5,000 05/01/2018
Financial exclusion loan prgramme

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-78
Tech4good Entrepreneur, NED and Trustee for over 20 years of not for profit and international NGO’s. Digital transformation and extensive running boards and strategic plans for change management.
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/05/2001, number: 1086562
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/11/2000, number: 04112525
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

James Cowper Kreston
2 Communications Road
Greenham Business Park
Greenham
THATCHAM
Berkshir

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PERSONS (UP TO 21 YEARS OF AGE OR, IF STILL IN FULL-TIME EDUCATION, 25 YEARS OF AGE) AND OF OTHER PERSONS IRRESPECTIVE OF AGE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED DUE TO THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES (THE BENEFICIARIES), BY THE PROVISION OF PECUNIARY OR OTHER ASSISTANCE AND BY ADVANCING EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROVISION AND ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, COACHING, MENTORING AND OTHER SERVICES AND FACILITIES PARTICULARLY WITH A VIEW TO ENABLING THE BENEFICIARIES TO SET UP IN BUSINESS OR OBTAIN PAID EMPLOYMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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