Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 7
Support Score: 6
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE BLACK PRINCE TRUST

On 13/11/11 the Trust leased from Lambeth Council for a period of 125 years 2.5 acres of land and community sports facilities based at the Black Prince Community Hub, London SE11 6AA. The facilities include three football pitches, two multi sport pitches, a sports hall with two gyms, two basketball courts and an education room, as well as a community building housing third sector partners.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£810£772£39£0£2,395£4547.1910
31/03/22£712£637£75£0£1,296£4157.865
31/03/21£542£367£175£3£1,221£37712.3315
31/03/20£508£455£53£0£1,046£228633
31/03/19£351£421£-69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£362£345£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£333£297£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£371£366£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£229£141£88n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£187£452£-265n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£788£134£654£7£1,181£20418.300
31/03/12*£555£28£527£5£527£893800

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 19%
Reserves/Spending: 7.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 13 years

www.blackprincetrust.org.uk

Kirk@blackprincetrust.org.uk

02078402904

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Village halls & community buildings
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Lambeth, Southwark,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Sport England£68,000
London Marathon Charitable Trust£41,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£27,500
City Bridge Trust£23,125
DCMS£9,700
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Kickstart Youth
£8,000 04/03/2024
11
This project will support young people aged between 10 and 12 from ethnic minority backgrounds in Lambeth with a football, multi-sport and mentoring package. Sessions will take place over a 40 week period at the Black Prince Community facility. ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Black Prince Trust
£2,500 30/11/2022
Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadavantaged minority communities in Lambeth
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Black Prince Trust
£25,000 12/07/2022
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadavantaged minority communities in Lambeth
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Black Prince Community Hub installation of turnstiles, an emergency gate and fire exit doors.
£9,000 16/12/2021
A grant towards the installation of new sports hall turnstiles, external emergency gates between sports hall and car park and new alarmed fire exit doors, Boxing, Jordan and Regal (halls).
Sport England - Covid-19 Return to Play
£50,000 10/05/2021
5
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Covid-19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Black Prince Community Hub installation of turnstiles, an emergency gate and fire exit doors.
£12,000 23/03/2021
A grant towards the installation of new sports hall turnstiles, external emergency gates between sports hall and car park and new alarmed fire exit doors, Boxing, Jordan and Regal (halls).
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,700 09/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Black Prince Trust
£10,000 11/06/2020
£10,000.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£10,000 01/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity building
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Black Prince Trust
£13,125 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £13,125, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Fight for Change Foundation
£3,000 01/04/2020
COVID-19 community grants wave 1 grant from the Finance & Governance department
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Black Prince Community Hub Changing Facilities - Enhancing Privacy
£20,000 02/01/2020
Towards the upgrading of female and disabled users changing facilities to incorporate private cubicles and the installation of a modesty wall in the male changing facilities, these improvements will help remove barriers to sports participation and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Black Prince Trust
£276,650 26/09/2019
60
£276,650 over five years (£52,490; £56,640; £54,840; £54,840; £57,840) towards a full time Physical Activity And Social Isolation Officer (PASIO), sessional staff and associated running costs.
Sport England - Summer 2019 Activities
£4,285 05/09/2019
2
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Summer 2019 Activities. This project is a Basketball project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
London Marathon Charitable Trust - BPT Community Sports Hub - Trim Trail
£20,000 25/10/2017
A grant towards a Trim Trail at the inner city Black Prince Trust Community Hub to provide a facility for individuals of all ages, abilities and fitness levels to engage in physical activity in a bid to tackle health inequality and improve wellbeing ....more
London Marathon Charitable Trust - refurbish sports building, changing rooms, toilets and showers
£100,000 10/12/2014
To refurbish sports building, changing rooms, toilets and showers
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-61
  • CHRISTOPHER OLIVER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chartered Surveyor
  • CRAIG ALEXANDER WOODHOUSE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • IAIN MACFARLANE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor
  • KIRK HARRISON (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • LEE MARTIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • LAUREN ROSE HERIA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • LORRAINE MARIE HARRISON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • LOUISE THOMSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • RAFAEL DOUGLAS ALLEYNE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/08/2011, number: 1143375
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/03/2011, number: 07563118
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR18: 28 days late, AR15: 17 days late, AR13: 140 days late, AR12: 48 days late,
Main office

5 BEAUFOY WALK
LAMBETH
SE11 6AA

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1) TO PROMOTE PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF GREATER LONDON THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS;2) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, WITH A FOCUS ON INHABITANTS OF GREATER LONDON WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED, VULNERABLY HOUSED, ON LOW INCOMES AND/OR AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION, SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;3)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IN THE SUBJECTS OF HEALTH, ARTS, HORTICULTURE, DANCE, SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION, SPORTS COACHING AND LEADERSHIP AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO PROMOTE LEARNING AMONGST AND DEVELOP THE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED OR ON LOW INCOMES; 4) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC URBAN REGENERATION IN THE AREA IN LAMBETH BOUNDED BY LAMBETH ROAD, KENNINGTON ROAD, KENNINGTON LANE AND THE RIVER THAMES, BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:A)THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES; B) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES;C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE; ANDD) THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS, AND/OR LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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