Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

PROTON FOUNDATION

The aim of the Foundation is equipping, encouraging, resourcing and inspiring people to achieve their full potential and preferred outcomes as individuals, families, community groups in the UK and parts of the world.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/12/23£164£164£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£121£127£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£66£71£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£52£74£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£42£70£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£122£108£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£110£116£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£91£96£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£129£87£42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£130£86£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£125£132£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£66£68£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£48£53£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10*£54£54£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£62£36£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years

www.protonfoundation.com

info@protonfoundation.com

07984247348

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£8,210
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£8,000
Co-Operative Group£7,635
The Clothworkers Foundation£4,400
The Bishop Radford Trust£2,000
Woodward Charitable Trust£1,750
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,750 15/03/2024
Core costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 07/07/2023
The Flourish Project Expansion
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Proton Foundation
£5,000 14/03/2023
12
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Proton Foundation
£4,400 08/12/2022
Refurbishment of building for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Warwickshire
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Proton Foundation
£2,000 07/11/2022
To subsidise two new churches to partner with us by becomign a Flourish Hub - resourceing youth work ing church and locally.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 20/05/2022
Flourish Project
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Proton Foundation
£3,000 01/02/2022
12
Small Grant unrestricted core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The 'Flourish Project'
£7,635 23/10/2021
We would like to roll out an e-learning package so that more children can access our programme in a supportive environment, and benefit from an increase in their mental wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Flourish Online Community Project
£8,210 29/04/2021
The funding will be used to develop a pilot for a digital inclusion platform called 'Flourish Online' aimed at supporting children aged between 9 - 14 years old with their mental health and wellbeing. The project aims to enable children to develop ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Flourish Online
£1,000 13/04/2021
To pilot an online version of their eight-week Flourish Project with 15 schools in West Bromwich.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards an after school programme for Roma children
£1,000 24/02/2016
Towards an after school programme for Roma children to help keep up with mainstream education.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-70
  • LISA RANKIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Carer
  • MARCUS WICHMANN (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Church Leader
  • MICHAEL JAY WILLIAMS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director
  • RANDY SOHNCHEN Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Managing Director - Not For Profit
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/10/2007, number: 1121153
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/04/2006, number: 05801211
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR10: 20 days late,
Main office

HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH
DEVERON WAY
HINCKLEY
LEICESTERSHIRE
LE10 0XD

Objectives

A) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY BY SUCH MEANS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;B) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY SUCH MEANS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;C) TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES BY SUCH MEANS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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