Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 9
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

KIDS N'ACTION 

Childrens educational activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • 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
30/06/22*£207£191£16n/an/an/an/an/a244
30/06/21£157£177£-20n/an/an/an/an/a12
30/06/20£188£210£-22n/an/an/an/an/a12
30/06/19*£241£238£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/18*£323£323£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£323£319£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£265£241£24£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15*£253£278£-25£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£190£196£-6£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£201£204£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£254£223£31£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11*£142£141£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£114£107£8£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£86£81£5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£128£133£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£85£86£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06*£74£72£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05*£54£50£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04*£39£36£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 21 years

https://www.kidsnaction.co.uk/

knaforms@gmail.com

02036701441

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Services for young people
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hackney,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 244 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
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
The Grocers' Charity£10,750
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Kids N' Action
£5,000 07/12/2022
to support preventing holiday hunger to break the cycle/stigma of poverty for 400 disadvantaged young people during school holidays.
National Lottery Community Fund - Preventing Holiday Hunger!
£10,000 17/12/2021
This project aims to prevent holiday hunger for disadvantaged Jewish young people during school holidays. They come from families beset by poverty hunger tragedy or crisis and live without the basic ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 17/09/2021
Winter Wonderland
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Kids N Action
£750 30/09/2020
2020/21 Academy Awards selected by Mossbourne Community Academy.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 29/05/2020
A Slice of Summer
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Kids N' Action
£5,000 11/12/2019
Improving support for disadvantaged children and young people
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowered by Innovation
£10,000 23/08/2019
12
Empowered by Innovation
National Lottery Community Fund - LIFT me up
£10,000 14/02/2018
12
The group will use the funding to install a stair-climber and special desk which will be used by children and young people who are living with physical disabilities and emotional issues. This will ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 18/07/2017
Kids N' Action Summer Holiday Playscheme 2017
The Childhood Trust - The Juicy Fruity Bunch
£8,000 19/05/2017
To enable disadvantaged, obese children and young people to have an awareness of living a healthy lifestyle in an enjoyable environment. They will access swimming, learn how to cycle, keep fit, have ....more
The Childhood Trust - The Juicy Fruity Bunch
£7,500 02/12/2016
To enable disadvantaged, obese children and young people to have an awareness of living a healthy lifestyle in an enjoyable environment. They will access swimming, learn how to cycle, keep fit, have ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Kids n' Action
£2,500 07/06/2016
12
towards day trips to the seaside for a group of disadvantaged children from London
The Childhood Trust - Five Alive
£7,500 18/05/2016
To provide an exciting program of activities for 650 inner city young people aged 3-15 years for 3 weeks of the summer school holidays, focused on healthy lifestyles in general and healthy eating in ....more
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2015
£5,000 18/05/2015
To provide an exciting program of activities for 650 inner city young people aged 3-15 years for 3 weeks of the summer school holidays, focused on healthy lifestyles in general and healthy eating in ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2014
£5,000 18/12/2014
To enable disadvantaged, obese children and young people to have an awareness of living a healthy lifestyle in an enjoyable environment. They will access swimming, learn how to cycle, keep fit, have ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The MADD (Music, Arts, Dance, Drama) Hall
£10,000 23/05/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use the funding to refurbish their community hall to accommodate creative arts extra-curricular activities for disadvantaged girls. This will ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - One, Two, Three, Ready Steady Wee!
£10,000 21/07/2011
12
This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use funding to holiday crèche facilities to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. This will increase the group's capacity to provide ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer playscheme in Finsbury Park
£1,500 01/05/2007
Towards a summer playscheme in Finsbury Park for able and disabled children from disadvantaged families, mainly from the Jewish faith.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/02/2003, number: 1096182
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 23 days late, AR19: 5 days late, AR18: 21 days late, AR15: 13 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR06: 8 days late, AR05: 36 days late, AR04: 18 days late,
Main office

KIDS 'N ACTION
C/O B.C.L SCHOOL
WOODBERRY DOWN
LONDON
N4 2SH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE: 1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH. 2) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND PROGRAMMES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THEIR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION AND SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, TO ENHANCE THEIR EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS AND TO ASSIST THEM IN GROWING TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HACKNEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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