Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

THE GIFTED ORGANISATION LIMITED

The Gifted uses interactive workshops and podcasting to raise the aspirations of children and young people by improving their knowledge, communication skills and building their confidence.The Gifted works with children, young people and families, particularly disadvantaged/vulnerable to educate and empower them, improve their resilience, confidence, sense of purpose, skills and employability.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • 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£172£196£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£166£160£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£208£210£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£241£203£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£223£217£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£147£149£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£106£140£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£157£141£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£163£132£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£76£45£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.thegifted.org.uk

info@thegifted.org.uk

01992 623 888

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Essex, Hertfordshire, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
People's Health Trust£40,730
Essex Community Foundation£39,876
National Lottery Heritage Fund£36,500
Hertfordshire Community Foundation£33,190
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
DCMS£13,715
CAF£7,261
BBC Children in Need£2,906
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - The Gifted Organisation Limited
£6,000 07/12/2023
to fund the continued delivery of after school programme for vulnerable girls and young people with low attendance across the Harlow area, focussing on supporting those facing a range of issues and challenges with mental health and wellbeing
Essex Community Foundation - The Gifted Organisation Limited
£6,000 13/06/2023
to support a healthy relationships programme for young people with special educational needs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Gifted Limited
£1,575 22/10/2022
We aim to pay two craft and wellbeing professionals to give local young people transferable skills training in textiles, up-cycling and crafts. We want 50 young people to get a craft wellbeing pack.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Born to be Butterflies
£3,603 10/10/2022
6
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Butterfly Extra
£4,964 29/07/2022
11
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Seventy Sewn Stories
£9,815 29/03/2022
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Butterfly SEN
£4,950 10/03/2022
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£13,186 03/02/2022
for the cost of a programme helping disadvantaged young women in Harlow engage with work experience and volunteering opportunities
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Butterfly St Albans and surrounding areas
£4,921 09/11/2021
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£4,690 17/12/2020
to deliver online support, confidence building and life and work skills sessions for vulnerable or disadvantaged young women living in Harlow, Ongar and West Essex
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000 04/09/2020
Digitalisation and support for vulnerable young people
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£2,906 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund online peer support sessions and care packs for young women in care and from disadvantaged backgrounds who are isolated due to Covid-19, and help them access improved support and reduced isolation.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£36,500 11/06/2020
COVID19: The Gifted Organisation Limited
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£10,000 08/06/2020
to move the 'butterflies' programme online to deliver confidence building and educational support for vulnerable or disadvantaged girls living in Harlow and Waltham Abbey during COVID19
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Digital BUTTERFLY
£4,937 26/05/2020
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£1,160 01/05/2020
£1,160 for care packages as described in your application, excluding £600 staff costs.
CAF - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£7,261 17/04/2020
3
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£9,143 28/02/2020
After school Arts and crafts sessions for girls
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£4,572 28/02/2020
After school Arts and crafts sessions for girls. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20
People's Health Trust - The Fatherhood
£40,730 16/01/2020
This two-year project for fathers in Tottenham, including those who may have complex lives, lack support, are divorced or are single parents, offers a supportive space and network through regular social meet-ups plus activities for fathers to come ....more
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Butterfly Extra
£4,578 31/10/2019
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£29,358 21/05/2019
36
This project will offer creative workshops and one-to-one support for care leavers in Stevenage/Enfield. The young people will have improved self-esteem, coping mechanisms and essential life skills.
Essex Community Foundation - Butterfly - helping young women fly
£3,875 26/02/2019
23
To deliver confidence building educational programmes for vulnerable or disadvantaged girls living in Harlow and Waltham Abbey
Co-Op Foundation - Co-design offer
£9,992 20/12/2018
Young people will map out the kind of community they want to see to inform the work they do.
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£9,934 20/12/2018
Co-designing improvements to an existing community hub to make it more welcoming for young people
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Community Spaces
£9,934 20/12/2018
Co-designing improvements to an existing community hub to make it more welcoming for young people
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Codesign
£9,690 20/12/2018
Young people will map out the kind of community they want to see to inform the work they do.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Spreading Our Wings (SOW Project)
£24,305 25/10/2018
24
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£30,000 13/09/2018
36
The Butterfly Effect; specialist early intervention support for young women and girls
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - The Butterfly Effect
£9,465 07/08/2018
11
Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£63,300 15/05/2018
The Clothmaker's Wings
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Gifted Organisation Limited
£98,170 14/06/2017
36
This project will provide a six-week programme of workshops for young women from poor and marginalised backgrounds that will help to increase self-confidence, raise their aspirations, and develop their sense of belonging to a community.
The Funding Network - Butterfly Effect
£3,307 08/06/2017
Early intervention tackling social problems in disadvantaged girls and young women engaging them to learn new skills and increase confidence, and raising aspirations.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards specialist sessional staff to deliver “Reality Check”
£1,000 23/03/2017
Towards specialist sessional staff to deliver “Reality Check”, an intensive intervention to support the social and emotional development of boys and young men at risk of exclusion.
National Lottery Community Fund - Enabling boys and young men to develop healthy relationships
£9,700 08/02/2017
12
This is a project by a charity in Broxbourne. The group will use the funding to deliver a series of domestic violence awareness workshops for boys and young men. This will equip them with communications skills and highlight how violence impacts upon ....more
The Fore - Grant to The Gifted
£18,000 19/07/2016
12
Grant funded the strategic development of the organisation to strengthen its longer-term sustainability.
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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: 48-53
  • JENNIFER KUMI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Project Manager
  • SHARON BOYD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • SONIA HARRIS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/03/2013, number: 1151327
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/01/2013, number: 08380063
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

1 Ingram House
Cheshunt
Waltham Cross
EN8 9NH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE HEALTH, WELLBEING, LIFE SKILLS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 5 AND 25, ESPECIALLY THOSE AT RISK OF BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, AND TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO HAVE BECOME SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, COACHING AND OUTREACH SO AS TO IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS, CONFIDENCE AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE,SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 5 AND 25 WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; RACE; GENDER; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; DISABILITY OR ETHNIC ORIGIN.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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