Finance Score: -9

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Poor Liquidity: -1
Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs high: -4

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 2

URBAN PARTNERSHIP GROUP

A holistic model of regeneration and social provision providing Children Centre, parenting, youth, employment support, careers advice and guidance, leisure, health and fitness + sports provision, volunteering and support services for the elderly plus collaborative working with other third sector and statutory agencies in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham and surrounding areas.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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	*	£1,754	£1,762	£-8	£93	£367	£177	1.2	45	100
31/03/22	*	£1,736	£1,867	£-131	£84	£376	£327	2.1	50	121
31/03/21		£1,856	£2,030	£-174	£102	£461	£444	2.6	42	121
31/03/20	*	£1,920	£1,893	£27	£82	£635	£602	3.8	45	136
31/03/19		£1,687	£1,661	£25	£50	£608	£590	4.3	32	145
31/03/18		£1,409	£1,384	£25	£44	£582	£327	2.8	28	0
31/03/17		£1,183	£1,131	£52	£41	£557	£314	3.3	24	0
31/03/16		£1,060	£998	£62	£44	£505	£288	3.5	20	0
31/03/15		£1,239	£1,176	£63	£412	£488	£332	3.4	20	0
31/03/14		£1,172	£1,148	£24	£78	£425	£283	3	18	0
31/03/13		£989	£960	£30	£75	£401	£257	3.2	19	0
31/03/12		£885	£897	£-12	£215	£372	£245	3.3	18	0
31/03/11		£1,011	£1,028	£-17	£257	£384	£322	3.8	18	0
31/03/10		£1,032	£1,013	£19	£304	£400	£261	3.1	18	0
31/03/09		£996	£1,061	£-65	£313	£382	£312	3.5	27	0
31/03/08	*	£553	£666	£-113	£65	£240	£240	4.3	7	0
31/03/07	*	£541	£618	£-77	£62	£353	£342	6.6	8	0
31/03/06	*	£944	£932	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£1,115	£1,147	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£1,278	£1,242	£36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 43.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 37%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 48%
Reserves/Spending: 1.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6

Asset Split ?

Established: 22 years
(26 years as a company)

www.upg.org.uk

andy@upg.org.uk

02076050800

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Other individual and family services

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Hammersmith And Fulham,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

45 employees
100 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

City Bridge Trust	£154,998
Trust for London	£97,500
The London Community Foundation	£49,410
Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Trust for London - Urban Partnership Group
£7,500	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-01.06.2021-9123
National Lottery Community Fund - Cultural Flavours
£9,400	15/10/2021	The funding will be used to provide food parcels to people on low or no incomes. The project aims to support people's essential needs and nutrition.
Trust for London - Urban Partnership Group
£90,000	13/10/2021 36	This funding is for the salary and management costs of an employment advisor to work with employed BAME people in West London in insecure or low paid jobs. The Advisor will help the participants to ....more This funding is for the salary and management costs of an employment advisor to work with employed BAME people in West London in insecure or low paid jobs. The Advisor will help the participants to access training and other skills to enable them to find better paid and secure employment.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	09/07/2021	Make the Edward Woods Community Centre Run on Sunshine
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Urban Partnership Group
£3,900	15/03/2021 12	Masbro Youth Club
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Urban Partnership Group
£10,000	04/12/2020 3	The funding is requested for a culturally appropriate food distribution service on housing estates in Hammersmith, White City and Edward Woods supporting 600 households. Food is distributed through ....more The funding is requested for a culturally appropriate food distribution service on housing estates in Hammersmith, White City and Edward Woods supporting 600 households. Food is distributed through home-delivery and collection at community centres. This is providing a service for the most in need and affected by the crisis.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Urban Partnership Group
£39,410	11/06/2020	The funding is for a culturally diverse food distribution service on housing estates in Hammersmith, White City and Edward Woods. The project brings together UPG, Nubian Life and Lido Foundation to ....more The funding is for a culturally diverse food distribution service on housing estates in Hammersmith, White City and Edward Woods. The project brings together UPG, Nubian Life and Lido Foundation to offer a range of food including halal & Afro Caribbean options through home delivery and collection at community centres.
Hammersmith United Charities - Towards supporting vulnerable families in need, training and running costs during COVID-19 crisis
£10,000	01/05/2020	Towards cash grants and other costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Urban Partnership Group
£4,998	17/04/2020	A grant of £4,998 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Urban Partnership Group
£150,000	26/03/2020 36	£150,000 over three years (3 x £50,000) for a full-time ESOL tutor; Volunteer training; a contribution to creche facilities; exam registration and project management and administration costs.
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Urban Partnership Group
£4,000	12/03/2020 12	Masbro Youth Club
City Bridge Trust - Eco audit to Urban Partnership Group
£3,800	31/03/2019	£3,800 to provide an Eco-Audit.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Urban Partnership Group
£29,040	15/03/2019 36	This family-based art therapy and creative workshop project is directed at children and their care givers, living in a highly deprived area. Involvement will result in strong self-belief and ....more This family-based art therapy and creative workshop project is directed at children and their care givers, living in a highly deprived area. Involvement will result in strong self-belief and improved mental health and relationships.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Urban Partnership Group
£26,140	07/10/2015	£26,140 for a third’s year support of ESOL pre-entry and Level 1 training for 70 individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds and for whom no other training is available.
National Lottery Community Fund - Confident Parent Happy Child
£270,089	23/02/2015 36	Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - The Parenting Partnership
£300,258	14/09/2011 36	This project aims to provide training and support to parents from traditionally marginalised groups in Hammersmith and Fulham to improve the overall life chances of their families and children. The ....more This project aims to provide training and support to parents from traditionally marginalised groups in Hammersmith and Fulham to improve the overall life chances of their families and children. The project will run several parenting programmes, but remain flexible in its approach and if a need is identified within a community which is better met by a different programme, the project will explore the option of providing a new course.
National Lottery Community Fund - BLT/GPI White City area
£10,000	11/03/2011 12	The money will support a range of community involvement activities to better prepare this Big Local Trust neighbourhood for when the Trust becomes operational.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 38-80

JACOLYN DALY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Strategist

VALLON LEITAO Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Children'S Centre Manager

CAMILLE CURTIS Appointed: 2008, Other trusteeship: BLYTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL,

FRANCO CHEN Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Photographer, Other trusteeship: BLYTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL,

KAMINI SANGHANI (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Business Executive

CRISTINA TRAGNI Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Tutor, Other trusteeship: BLYTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL,

GRACE AKOSUA OWUSUA POKU Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Childminder, Other trusteeship: BLYTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL,

HOPE HANLAN Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: BLYTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL,

MARIA CAMACHO, Occupation: Meal Superviser, Other trusteeship: BLYTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/05/2002, number: 1092258
Registered at Companies House on 08/10/1997, number: 03446256

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

14/12/2016 - Asset transfer in from WOMEN'S RADIO GROUP
23/07/2018 - Asset transfer in from LONDON LINK RADIO
22/11/2021 - Asset transfer in from WHITE CITY ENTERPRISE

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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; AR23: 15 days late, AR22: 1 days late, AR20: 14 days late, AR08: 20 days late, AR07: 105 days late, AR06: 402 days late, AR05: 351 days late, AR04: 53 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from WHITE CITY ENTERPRISE on 22/11/2021

Main office

THE URBAN PARTNERSHIP GROUP
MASBRO CENTRE
87 MASBRO ROAD
LONDON
W14 0LR

Objectives

1 TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:-(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE;(B) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR BUSINESS ADVICE OR CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF FINANCIAL OR CHARITABLE NEED THROUGH HELP IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS OR TO EXISTING BUSINESSES;(C) THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS AND/OR LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS.2 TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM AND SURROUNDING AREA IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.3 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION, ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE PREVENTION OF YOUTH CRIME, IN PART BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PRINCIPALLY LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

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