Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

NEAR NEIGHBOURS 

The Near Neighbours programme builds social integration by bringing people together in religiously and ethnically diverse communities, creating friendships, building relationships of trust and helping people to transform their neighbourhoods together. Near Neighbours works in locations in England.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently

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
31/12/22£525£520£5£0£155£0n/a00
31/12/21£2,302£2,248£54£0£151£0n/a00
31/12/20£900£1,001£-102£0£96£0n/a10
31/12/19£1,955£1,945£10£0£197£0n/a410
31/12/18£1,996£1,913£83£0£187£0n/a310
31/12/17£2,107£2,176£-69£0£104£0n/a30
31/12/16£1,893£1,720£173£0£173£0n/a10
31/12/15*£1,949£2,015£-66£0£0£0n/a10
31/12/14£1,335£1,637£-302£34£66£0n/a10
31/12/13£1,933£1,643£290£43£368£0n/a10
31/12/12£1,925£2,074£-149£50£78£0n/a10
31/12/11£1,438£1,211£227£38£227£0n/a10

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 0%
Reserves/Spending: 0 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 11.2
Asset Split ?
Established: 13 years

www.near-neighbours.org.uk

hello@cuf.org.uk

0203 752 5651

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - CATALYST YOUNG LEADERS PROGRAMME
£179,035 31/08/2023
Funding will be used for a leadership programme that equips young people from diverse backgrounds to become leaders and influencers in society. This includes free accredited training membership of an ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Near Neighbours
£2,000 04/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Near Neighbours
£108,750 13/11/2018
36
over three years towards the running costs of the Catalyst Young Leaders programme in Peterborough

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/06/2011, number: 1142426
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/04/2011, number: 07603317
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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; AR15: 0 days late,
Main office

The Foundry
17 Oval Way
LONDON
SE11 5RR

Objectives

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN AREAS WITHIN THE PROVINCES OF CANTERBURY AND YORK WHICH ARE IN NEED OF SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE BY REASON OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCE WITH A VIEW TO REINFORCING THE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THOSE AREAS

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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