Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -8
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Latest return overdue -5
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE BOILER HOUSE COMMUNITY SPACE

Community Centre offers a safe and financially affordable common ground for the local community, voluntary , fitness and educational groups and other groups to meet as well as provide space for local people to hire for events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • Why is the Board completely female?

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
31/12/22£690£669£21£6£265£1763.219150
31/12/21*£416£410£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£416£317£99n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£306£262£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£262£235£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£230£216£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£212£196£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£114£108£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14*£70£65£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13*£74£47£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 12 years

www.n16boilerhouse.com

info@n16boilerhouse.com

0208 806 8013

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Hackney,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
London Marathon Charitable Trust£150,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£110,000
Hackney Council£84,722
Tudor Trust£60,000
Greater London Authority£55,000
City Bridge Trust£51,900
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Power to Change£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Boiler House Community Garden
£50,000 02/12/2022
This project will create a new garden at a community centre in Stoke Newington. The project will open up a new green walking route, depave to turn grey space to green, utilise rainwater harvesting and plant a forest garden.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Good Place Winter Crisis Response
£10,000 02/12/2022
Funding will be used to expand the outreach of the community engagement team offering support and daily conversations with isolated older people in the community and connecting them to services in the area. This project also aims to continue ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£10,000 30/11/2022
Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment and expanding building for a charity supporting disadvantaged minoirty communitys in Hackney
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 01/07/2022
Boiler House Community Space Expansion
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£100,000 15/03/2022
refurbishment and expanding building for a charity supporting disadvantaged minoirty communitys in Hackney
Tudor Trust - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£60,000 22/02/2022
towards a new purpose-built garden house and multi-use games area at a community centre on the George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London
Greater London Authority - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£5,000 11/12/2021
Community Green Space
Power to Change - Renewal - THE Boiler House Community Space
£20,000 14/05/2021
Grant to Renewal - THE Boiler House Community Space
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£46,900 22/04/2021
towards the salary and on costs of five core staff, as identified in your application
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£50,779 12/11/2020
8
CEV Funding for 3 Wards
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£21,674 12/11/2020
T&T: The consortium is led by the Boiler House, it consists of three organisations Boiler House, North London national food services and the Round Chapel Old School Rooms.
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£8,698 10/09/2020
3
DEFRA: We are requesting funding to pay for food supplies and hygiene products for families and children. We are also asking for volunteer costs; this is to cover the petrol use used for delivering all the food parcels. Also, the cost of a part time ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£27,925 30/06/2020
The coordination and translation of current, evolving grassroots needs. Enabling delivery of immediate and medium term crisis response, particularly around food poverty, signposting, loneliness. To develop an alliance of local civil society groups/ ....more
Power to Change - C-19 Response - The Boiler House Community Space
£30,000 28/05/2020
Grant to C-19 Response - The Boiler House Community Space
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£5,000 13/04/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Sport England - MUGA and Outdoor Facility Improvements
£50,000 11/03/2020
29
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled MUGA and Outdoor Facility Improvements. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
London Marathon Charitable Trust - The Boiler House Relocate and Improvement of Sports and Fitness Facilities.
£150,000 02/01/2020
Towards the relocation and installation of a new Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) on the George Downing Estate in Stoke Newington, and refurbishment of an existing community hall, adapting it to a multi functional sports and fitness facility, this ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£3,571 10/12/2019
12
Up-skill staff and volunteers to promote and support improved community cohesion for Hackney residents by providing residents and local organisations with free community mediation, community support drop-in surgeries, and conflict resolution ....more
Power to Change - The Boiler House Community Space
£308,000 23/05/2019
36
Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
Tudor Trust - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£60,000 05/10/2016
24
over two years as continuation funding towards salary costs at a community development charity in North East London
Tudor Trust - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£123,000 16/08/2013
36
over three years towards core salaries at this charity which develops community activities and community spaces in Hackney
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Research and Journalism Project
£10,000 11/07/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use the funding to provide community engagement training for volunteers and journalist and film making workshops for the wider community. This will develop skills and help the community to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-66
  • ABIGAIL GILBERT Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Public Health Advisor
  • ELEANOR FAITH WRIGHT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Property
  • MARGARET GREER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: National Race Equality Officer Unison
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/09/2012, number: 1148931
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/12/2010, number: 07458912
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR21: 85 days late, AR14: 90 days late, AR13: 18 days late,
Main office

THE BOILER HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE
GEORGE DOWNING ESTATE
CAZENOVE ROAD
LONDON
N16 6BE

Objectives

4.1 TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF STOKE NEWINGTON, STAMFORD HILL, HACKNEY AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;4.2 TO ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS;4.3 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.THE CHARITY SHALL BE NON-PARTY IN POLITICS AND NON-SECTARIAN IN RELIGION.THE AREA OF BENEFIT (“AREA OF BENEFIT”) SHALL BE STOKE NEWINGTON, STAMFORDHILL, HACKNEY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY THE COMMUNITY USERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE AREA OF BENEFIT (“AREA OF BENEFIT”) SHALL BE STOKE NEWINGTON, STAMFORDHILL, HACKNEY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY THE COMMUNITY USERS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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