Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 8
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -4
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted 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
  • Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£1,754£1,762£-8£93£367£1771.245100
31/03/22*£1,736£1,867£-131£84£376£3272.150121
31/03/21£1,856£2,030£-174£102£461£4442.642121
31/03/20*£1,920£1,893£27£82£635£6023.845136
31/03/19£1,687£1,661£25£50£608£5904.332145
31/03/18£1,409£1,384£25£44£582£3272.8280
31/03/17£1,183£1,131£52£41£557£3143.3240
31/03/16£1,060£998£62£44£505£2883.5200
31/03/15£1,239£1,176£63£412£488£3323.4200
31/03/14£1,172£1,148£24£78£425£2833180
31/03/13£989£960£30£75£401£2573.2190
31/03/12£885£897£-12£215£372£2453.3180
31/03/11£1,011£1,028£-17£257£384£3223.8180
31/03/10£1,032£1,013£19£304£400£2613.1180
31/03/09£996£1,061£-65£313£382£3123.5270
31/03/08*£553£666£-113£65£240£2404.370
31/03/07*£541£618£-77£62£353£3426.680
31/03/06*£944£932£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£1,115£1,147£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£1,278£1,242£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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 ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 23 years
(27 years as a company)

www.upg.org.uk

andy@upg.org.uk

02076050800

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare 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 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£254,998
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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Urban Partnership Group
£100,000 28/09/2023
24
£100,000 over two further and final years (£50,000, £50,000) for ESOL provision for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, as well as associated project and management costs.
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 access training and other skills to enable them to ....more
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 home-delivery and collection at community centres. ....more
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 offer a range of food including halal & Afro ....more
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 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 project will run several parenting programmes, but ....more
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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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Age Range of Trustees: 38-80
  • CAMILLE CURTIS Appointed: 2008
  • CRISTINA TRAGNI, Occupation: Tutor
  • FRANCO CHEN, Occupation: Photographer
  • GRACE AKOSUA OWUSUA POKU Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Childminder
  • HOPE HANLAN, Occupation: Retired
  • JACOLYN DALY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Strategist
  • KAMINI SANGHANI (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Business Executive
  • MARIA CAMACHO, Occupation: Meal Superviser
  • VALLON LEITAO Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Children'S Centre Manager
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
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

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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