Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 8

Poor Liquidity: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Multiple returns filed late: -2

Overall weighted support: +8

Overall GiG Score: -3

CPOTENTIAL TRUST

CPotential Trust (formerly the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy) provides life-changing therapies and support for children with movement disorders due to conditions such as cerebral palsy. Services include conductive education, rebound therapy, music therapy, "learning for living" sessions, Mollii suit assessments, support and information for parents and outreach.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there only 4 trustees?
The Board has little diversity in terms of age
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
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
30/12/23		£602	£1,019	£-417	£77	£470	£450	5.3	23	0
30/12/22	*	£685	£998	£-312	£364	£896	£837	10.1	24	2
31/12/21		£553	£983	£-430	£238	£1,373	£1,360	16.6	21	1
31/12/20	*	£364	£892	£-528	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19		£1,726	£914	£812	£163	£2,331	£2,294	30.1	19	2
31/12/18		£1,136	£1,878	£-741	£571	£1,468	£1,424	9.1	32	0
31/12/17		£2,602	£1,378	£1,224	£497	£2,209	£1,617	14.1	44	0
31/12/16		£1,222	£1,543	£-321	£561	£977	£369	2.9	37	0
31/12/15	*	£1,688	£1,322	£366	£456	£1,280	£613	5.6	26	0
31/12/14		£1,493	£1,406	£87	£508	£913	£799	6.8	25	0
31/12/13	*	£1,345	£1,104	£241	£417	£820	£668	7.3	24	0
31/12/12	*	£1,133	£1,018	£114	£302	£553	£525	6.2	29	0
31/12/11		£1,081	£1,079	£2	£240	£416	£374	4.2	33	0
31/12/10		£1,107	£1,085	£22	£242	£424	£408	4.5	28	0
31/12/09		£1,020	£983	£37	£245	£400	£343	4.2	22	0
31/12/08		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 12.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 57%
Liabilities/Income: 105%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 5.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -7 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 16 years
(18 years as a company)

http://cpotential.org.uk

info@cplondon.org.uk

020 8444 7242

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Specialty hospitals (incl psychiatric)

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

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	£90,000
City Bridge Trust	£52,927
BBC Children in Need	£45,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£17,333
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to CPOTENTIAL TRUST
£45,000	27/07/2023	This grant will provide music therapy sessions for children with disabilities, particularly movement disorders. The intended outcomes include improved communication, language and social skills, stress reductions and motor skills development.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000	14/04/2023	Supporting Children with Movement Disorders
City Bridge Trust - Eco audit to CPotential Trust
£2,400	21/10/2022	£2,400 (6 days) to provide an eco-audit.
National Lottery Community Fund - Immersive Story Therapy
£7,433	15/07/2022	The funding will be used to deliver blocks of immersive story therapy to children with movement disorders such as cerebral palsy. The project aims to help develop confidence and communication and expressive skills.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000	11/03/2022	Supporting children with Movement Disorders
City Bridge Trust - Grant to CPotential Trust
£26,500	31/01/2022	£26,500 over one year for the costs of developing a social impact measurement framework, including agreed consultancy fees, frontline staff involvement costs, and a contribution to overheads.
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent Carer Wellbeing
£9,900	19/03/2021 11	The funding will be used to provide well-being to support to parents who have a child with movement and communication difficulties such as cerebral palsy and global development delay. The project aims to reduce the mental ill health including stress ....more The funding will be used to provide well-being to support to parents who have a child with movement and communication difficulties such as cerebral palsy and global development delay. The project aims to reduce the mental ill health including stress and anxiety many parent carers experience.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to CPotential
£10,000	02/12/2020 12	Covid additional main grant unrestricted core costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to CPotential Trust
£24,027	28/05/2020	A grant of £24,027 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	07/03/2019	Early Intervention and Sessional Services
BBC Children in Need - Grant to CPOTENTIAL TRUST
£120,000	23/10/2018 36	Conductive education sessions for 59 children with conditions that affect their movement such as cerebral palsy. Sessions will help improved mobility, communication skills and strengthen family relationships.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to CPotential
£60,000	24/07/2017	Main Grant unrestricted core costs

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-67

CATHARINE SEDDON Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Member Of Tribunial Service

CHRISTOPHER JOHN GILBERT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Finance Director

HOWARD COBB Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

TIMOTHY JOHN HAMMETT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Business Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/06/2008, number: 1124524
Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2006, number: 05848363

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
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

16 returns made; AR22: 170 days late, AR20: 25 days late, AR15: 16 days late, AR13: 31 days late, AR12: 111 days late,

Main office

C Potential Trust
143 Coppetts Road
LONDON
N10 1JP

Objectives

TO RELIEVE ANY CHARITABLE NEED FOR PERSONS WITH LEARNING, PHYSICAL, COMMUNICATION AND SENSORY DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

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