Finance Score: -10

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 3

Accounts overdue -5
Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -4

LEARNING FOR THE FOURTH AGE - U4A - LTD

L4A provides learning to older people receiving care in Leicester and Leicestershire.

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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Latest accounts are overdue for filing
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

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
30/06/22	£24	£43	£-19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
30/06/21	£46	£44	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
30/06/20	£54	£56	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/06/19?	£111	£98	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/05/18	£87	£82	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	80
31/05/17	£157	£146	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/16	£93	£98	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/15	£88	£73	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 10 years
(16 years as a company)

www.l4a.org.uk

info@l4a.org.uk

07545842315

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Leicester City, Leicestershire,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Mental Health First Aid for Care Staff
£9,792	28/03/2023	The funding will be used to provide care staff with mental health first aid training. The project aims to give staff tools to help support residents and each other with any mental health needs. It ....more The funding will be used to provide care staff with mental health first aid training. The project aims to give staff tools to help support residents and each other with any mental health needs. It will also provide a network of support for staff.
National Lottery Community Fund - Revisiting Care Homes
£9,850	03/12/2021	The funding will be used to work closely and slowly with existing volunteers to pilot impactful ways of visiting people in care homes to undertake meaningful activities. The project aims to provide ....more The funding will be used to work closely and slowly with existing volunteers to pilot impactful ways of visiting people in care homes to undertake meaningful activities. The project aims to provide mental stimulation and social interaction during the pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Remotely Active!
£8,500	15/05/2020 11	The funding will be used to pay for staff time to create a series of online and posted activities for people living in care homes. The project aims to reduce isolation for those living in these ....more The funding will be used to pay for staff time to create a series of online and posted activities for people living in care homes. The project aims to reduce isolation for those living in these settings who due to COVID-19 restrictions are currently unable to see family and their mental wellbeing is suffering as a result.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Learning for the Fourth Age (L4A)
£20,000	19/03/2020 24	towards two years' running costs of a charity providing informal learning opportunities for older people in residential and nursing homes in Leicestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Care to Share
£8,400	08/03/2019 12	This funding will be used to run multi-sensory baking activities for older people residing in a care setting. The project aims to stimulate interaction and provide access to volunteering.
National Lottery Community Fund - TPP3 - Baking A Difference
£50,000	04/06/2018 12	This group will use the process of baking bread and the pleasure of sharing fresh bread, as a way to bring older people living in care homes and sheltered housing together with their local ....more This group will use the process of baking bread and the pleasure of sharing fresh bread, as a way to bring older people living in care homes and sheltered housing together with their local communities. People will be trained to run regular community 'bread and conversation' sessions, with the aim of reducing loneliness and isolation and improving mental wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - TPP1 - The Power of Stories â€“ tales for telling and sharing
£43,600	29/03/2016 12	They will extend their creative storytelling with older people living in care to incorporate 10 new care homes where staff will be trained in techniques of storytelling. This will help to further ....more They will extend their creative storytelling with older people living in care to incorporate 10 new care homes where staff will be trained in techniques of storytelling. This will help to further improve wellbeing of an increased number of beneficiaries, and will increase the sustainability of the project. Sessions include stimulating sense memories by having props to see and touch and foods to smell and eat and they incorporate songs and poems, all of which encourage interaction and participation.
National Lottery Community Fund - SPECS (Silver Dreams Project for Empowerment and Creativity in Care Setting
£158,088	24/04/2012 24	A learning project which will enable 100 older people in up to 30 care homes and 40 OP receiving domiciliary care to create a film about their life to date and share their experiences of living in a ....more A learning project which will enable 100 older people in up to 30 care homes and 40 OP receiving domiciliary care to create a film about their life to date and share their experiences of living in a care setting. L4A will provide videospectacles to OP who will only to choose what they want to film, flip a switch and everything will record. Individuals will be learn storytelling and simple cinematic techniques to create films for large screen showings to family, friends and members of the local community.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-81

BRIAN WILSON (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: THE MONDAY CLUB LEICESTERSHIRE LIMITED,

JOYCE WELLS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired Company Director

ROBERT HUNTER Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Education Consultant

SUNITA PATEL Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Senior Marketing Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/07/2014, number: 1157818
Registered at Companies House on 07/05/2008, number: 06586596

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

8 returns made; all on time

Main office

9 KNIGHTON PARK ROAD
LEICESTER
LE2 1ZA

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND WELLBEING OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR OLDER PEOPLE RECEIVING CARE AND SUPPORT IN LEICESTER AND LEICESTERSHIRE.

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