Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

SMILE FOR LIFE CHILDRENS CHARITY

We support disabled and disadvantaged youngsters to live a happy and easier life. We provide specialist equipment, wonderful experiences and short breaks for families often in desperate need. Our Cafe Beam is a community coffee shop run entirely by young people with special needs providing hands on work experience, new skills and confidence to enter the world of paid employment.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
31/03/23£375£377£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£282£275£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£280£165£116n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20*£254£254£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£267£290£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£273£252£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£197£205£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£183£175£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£161£160£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£125£122£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£138£139£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£159£165£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11?£180£170£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/10£229£223£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 15 years

www.smileforlife.org.uk

info@smileforlife.org.uk

01912844166

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
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
The Ballinger Charitable Trust£60,000
The Greggs Foundation£45,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£28,994
The Badur Foundation£24,810
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Greggs Foundation - North East Core Funding
£45,000 18/05/2023
36
£45,000 over three years towards core cost of salary for full time administrator officer
The Badur Foundation - Grant to Smile For Life Children's Charity
£10,000 17/03/2023
Towards the café expansion at Ouseburn Charity Farm
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£10,000 16/03/2023
Delivery costs for café beam project in gosforth, newcastle
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£60,000 10/03/2023
Unrestricted funding
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£500 22/09/2022
Celebrating world kindness day at café beam
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 29/07/2022
Smile for Life Children's Chartiy
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£9,494 17/03/2022
Training and work experience of learning disabled young people living in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, and Sunderland
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£5,000 16/12/2021
Purchasing a new traditional Barista coffee machine for the community cafe in Gosforth
The Badur Foundation - Grant to Smile For Life Children's Charity
£14,810 01/10/2021
Towards providing a chef apprenticeship for a young person with autism
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£4,000 15/04/2021
Work placement experience for disabled young people in an allotment in Newcastle
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - providing work experience for disabled young people at a community café in Newcastle upon Tyne
£10,000 18/03/2021
providing work experience for disabled young people at a community café in Newcastle upon Tyne
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - the organisation's charitable purposes
£5,000 17/12/2020
the organisation's charitable purposes
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/09/2020
Smile for Life - core costs
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Custom built kitchen placements to help young people with a disability work as assistant chefs in Newcastle
£3,000 05/11/2019
Custom built kitchen placements to help young people with a disability work as assistant chefs in Newcastle
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£2,400 20/03/2019
24
towards a two night trip to an activity centre for a group of children from Newcastle upon Tyne
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£21,000 21/09/2018
12
Café Beam expansion
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£38,750 21/09/2018
36
Café Beam
National Lottery Community Fund - Enhancing the Smile for Life Community
£7,516 31/01/2018
12
The organisation will hire sessional staff to support activities and projects for a youth club for young people with learning difficulties. They will provide a fitness club, and support young people to set up a forum and plan to deliver activities ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£3,693 04/08/2017
We want to offer supported work experience to young people with special needs so they learn new skills and gain increased confidence.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£21,780 10/05/2017
36
This project will deliver regular "challenge days" where disabled children and young people can engage in exciting activities which improve physical and emotional development.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Pop up cafe with placements for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities
£3,900 10/11/2015
Towards Pop up cafe with placements for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 64-66
  • ALISON PROUDFOOT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • DR JAN WELBURY
  • MARGERY GLEDSON (Chair) Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Independent Financial Adviser
  • NIGEL COATES Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Principal Lecturer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/06/2009, number: 1129935
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/05/2009, number: 06913129
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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
14 returns made; AR20: 4 days late, AR18: 8 days late, AR17: 15 days late, AR15: 11 days late, AR14: 40 days late,
Main office

Cafe Beam
Old Fire Station
234-236 High Street
Gosforth
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE3 1HH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, SICKNESS ANDDISTRESS WHETHER PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR OTHERWISE OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND, SCOTTISH BORDERS AND OTHER AREAS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS DECIDED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND, SCOTTISH BORDERS AND OTHER AREAS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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