Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 12
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The London Community Foundation makes a difference to the lives of Londoners by connecting people who need help with those who are willing to give. That's what we do. We are dedicated to improving the lives of London's most disadvantaged. Child poverty, unemployment, isolation, homelessness, domestic violence and gang crime are just some of the issues we are tackling through our grant making.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£12,974£13,550£-576£506£31,636£9370.8180
31/03/22£12,183£10,805£1,378£548£33,130£8961200
31/03/21£21,474£20,033£1,441£517£29,735£8600.5202
31/03/20£9,918£10,405£-487£589£24,059£7670.9190
31/03/19£9,847£9,123£724£560£25,778£7511190
31/03/18£16,714£17,958£-1,244£730£24,374£7740.5220
31/03/17£7,219£6,530£689£506£25,386£1,0011.8200
31/03/16£7,761£7,112£649£457£21,456£8981.5170
31/03/15£6,596£6,398£198£457£22,014£9961.9190
31/03/14£5,562£5,598£-36£514£18,688£1,0282.2210
31/03/13*£6,798£6,633£165£407£15,757£1,0611.9170
31/03/12£6,279£4,859£1,420£316£13,605£1,1302.8130
31/03/11*£3,739£2,986£753£250£9,108£1,1544.6110
31/03/10*£3,103£2,814£289£160£5,378£1,1645120
31/03/09*£2,550£2,357£193£203£1,665£1,1085.6130
31/03/08*£3,508£3,337£172£293£1,477£1,118490
31/03/07*£3,412£3,404£9£6£1,310£1,1003.9120
31/03/06*£4,027£3,844£183n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£4,655£4,437£218n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£3,808£3,583£225n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 3%
Reserves/Spending: 0.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 3.8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years

www.londoncf.org.uk

info@londoncf.org.uk

02075825117

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
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
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£1,065,000
Trust for London£852,000
Greater London Authority£795,000
Three Guineas Trust£250,000
Quartet Community Foundation£213,237
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime - Match Funding for the Home Office VAWG Specialist Services Fund
£57,000 12/03/2024
Home Office VAWG Specialist Services Fund
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to London Community Foundation
£98,363 31/05/2023
A third of the annual income from the Bank of Ireland UK Community Giving Fund, as directed by the donor.
Quartet Community Foundation - London
£5,000 20/03/2023
As requested by the donor towards work to ameliorate the Cost of Living crisis.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to London Community Foundation
£1,065,000 10/01/2023
£1,065,000 over five months to the London Community Foundation for onward grant-making through the Together for London Winter appeal and the operational costs of same.
Trust for London - London Community Foundation
£52,000 09/11/2022
The funding is to support London Community Foundation response to the Cost of Living Crisis.
Greater London Authority - Continuation Grant
£795,000 19/10/2022
Psychologically informed environments
Trust for London - London Community Foundation
£800,000 29/09/2022
The funding is to be regranted by the London Community Foundation in response to the Cost of Living Crisis.
John Lyon's Charity - Small grant to The London Community Foundation
£5,000 22/09/2022
Excluded Initiative Evaluation
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to London Community Foundation
£4,092 29/04/2022
Regional proportion of Bristol & West ‘97 Endowment Fund
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to London Community Foundation
£105,782 29/04/2022
A third of the annual income from the Bank of Ireland UK Community Giving Fund, as directed by the donor.
Three Guineas Trust - To the Coronavirus Appeal for regranting to small charities and grassroots
£250,000 30/03/2020
To the London Communities Coronavirus Appeal for regranting to small charities and grassroots organisations across the capital.
Home Office - Save London Lives Fund (EIYF) 2019-20
£544,900 01/04/2019
As part of the Early Intervention Youth Fund, a commitment in the Serious Violence Strategy, an award of £500,000 one-off funding to be made to the Evening Standards Save London Lives Fund which is administered by The London Community Foundation ....more
Sport England - New Participation Partners - Small Grants Pilot
£250,000 15/03/2018
12
Funding under Sport England's Funded Partners funding programme for a Revenue project titled New Participation Partners - Small Grants Pilot. This project lists its main activity as Multi-Skill Coaching
DCMS - ALB-New Participation Partners - Small Grants Pilot
£250,000 15/03/2018
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Sport England - New Participation Partners - Small Grants Pilot
£200,000 16/03/2017
12
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled New Participation Partners - Small Grants Pilot. This project lists its main activity as Multi-Skill Coaching
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 44-60
  • DR SATNAM SAGOO Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Associate Chief People Officer
  • FIONA BICKLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • JOHN HUME Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ceo
  • NATALIE CREARY-ANINAKWA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • OWEN JENKINS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Banking
  • RUSSELL PRIOR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Bank Manager
  • URMI DUTTA-ROY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • VEESH VISHAL SHARMA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/03/2002, number: 1091263
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/02/2002, number: 04383269
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR13: 265 days late, AR11: 275 days late, AR10: 640 days late, AR09: 39 days late, AR08: 404 days late, AR07: 44 days late, AR06: 72 days late, AR05: 63 days late, AR04: 69 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from L C C WORKMEN'S DWELLING TRUST, BECONTREE on 08/06/2022
Main office

The London Community Foundation
Arc House
82 Tanner Street
LONDON
SE1 3GN

Objectives

1. THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND THE PROVISION, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED. 2. OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE LONDON BOROUGHS AND THE CITY OF LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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