Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

CHILDREN AHEAD LTD 

Children Ahead's mission is to ensure that children struggling with learning and emotional difficulties have the opportunities, help and resources to achieve their full potential.To achieve this, the Charity offers children and young people a full range of therapeutic interventions, alongside training and support for their parents and schools.
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
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

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
29/07/22£1,172£1,170£2£21£167£1661.72315
29/07/21£986£950£36£17£165£1652.12015
29/07/20£828£802£27£16£128£1281.9205
29/07/19£729£724£6£14£102£1021.7205
29/07/18£604£596£8£12£96£961.9183
29/07/17£498£492£6£0£0£0n/a00
29/07/16£479£456£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/15£360£334£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/14£254£225£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/13£66£64£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/12£66£65£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/11£31£29£2£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 30%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 1.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.5
Asset Split ?
Established: 14 years

accounts@childrenahead.org.uk

020 8806 7312

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other education services
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 23 employees
  • 15 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
City Bridge Trust£281,000
Henry Smith Charity£147,400
BBC Children in Need£100,300
The Childhood Trust£32,500
National Lottery Community Fund£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Children Ahead Ltd
£147,400 15/03/2023
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support for young people aged 5-16 with emotional or mental health difficulties in the Orthodox Jewish community in the London Boroughs of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Build`n`Boost
£10,000 29/09/2022
This project will support Jewish children and young people with mental health support. The funding will provide individual mentoring and a befriending program for 20 children experiencing a crisis or ....more
The Childhood Trust - C-59168
£10,000 28/06/2022
28 children urgently need mental-health support but cannot afford it. Your kind donation will give these children 12 emotional therapy sessions each, so they can recover from covid trauma and loss ....more
The Childhood Trust - Mental Health Support for the Entire Family
£20,000 12/06/2022
There is an urgent need for mental-health support.A staggering 1 in 6 children are experiencing mental-health issues and their families are falling apart from the tension,uncertainty and stress.We ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Change Of Mind
£3,120 21/10/2021
Children Ahead supports children with special educational needs and mental health difficulties to develop their full potential, by providing integrated interventions including: 1. Speech and language ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family mental-health support
£10,000 20/08/2021
The funding will be used to pay for a community-based helpline offering 20 min consultations with professional psychotherapists and parenting courses. The project aims to decrease stress prevent ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Children Ahead
£9,800 01/07/2021
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting mental health issues and disabilities in children in London
The Childhood Trust - Advocating for mental health support
£2,500 22/06/2021
20 children urgently need mental-health support but cannot afford it. Your kind donation will give these children 10 emotional therapy sessions each, so that they can recover from covid trauma and ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children Ahead
£20,000 30/11/2020
This project will provide a mental health support project for children and young poeple who have mild-moderate special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Children Ahead Ltd
£31,000 11/09/2020
towards the staff costs outlined in your application for a psychotherapist to support 50 Charedi children with mental-health difficulties resulting from Covid-19, and for a Development Officer (10 ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children Ahead
£3,500 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will pay for IT equipment and activity packs to enable disabled children and young people to develop communication skills whilst being socially-isolated during Covid-19.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,500 01/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Children Ahead Ltd
£250,000 26/03/2020
60
£250,000 over five years (5 x £50,000) towards the costs of psychotherapeutic and other mental health support to young people, both boys and girls.
National Lottery Community Fund - All for Exercise
£10,000 02/08/2019
12
The project will use the funding to facilitate the delivery of fitness classes for parents and children with learning disabilities.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children Ahead
£76,800 26/06/2019
36
Speech therapy and motor skills support for young people from the Orthodox Jewish Community in North London. Children will have improved communication skills, improved motor skills & improve ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children Ahead
£30,000 30/07/2018
36
Art therapy sessions for young people with learning disabilities and who are also members of the Orthodox Jewish community. Young people will benefit through improved understanding of emotions, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Believe and Achieve
£348,905 14/12/2016
48
This project will provide social inclusion and educational support to black, Asian and minority ethnic children and young people with additional needs, supporting their development and preventing ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the “Let’s Talk” project for children with language difficulties
£500 25/02/2016
Towards the “Let’s Talk” project for children with language and communication difficulties in Hackney and Haringey.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/09/2010, number: 1138140
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/07/2010, number: 07303421
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

91-93 Stamford Hill
Lower Ground Floor
London
N16 5TP

Objectives

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, RESOURCES AND THERAPIES (NOT REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY) FOR EDUCATION.2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING CHILDREN WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE CHILDREN WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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