Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
    • Overall weighted support: +9
    Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

    MY YARD

    Providing practical and emotional support for vulnerable members of society via My Yard who become isolated due to crisis. We collect and distribute food, provide a range of activities for youth, help survivors of Domestic Abuse, Families and Caregivers and Children who've had life changing injury due to accident or illness, We focus on families in temporary housing.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • 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
    30/09/23*£204£202£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/22£146£143£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/21£130£122£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/20£60£51£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/19£27£23£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/18£10£11£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/17*£6£7£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/16£5£6£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    30/09/15£7£7£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 10 years

    www.myyard.org.uk

    office@myyard.org.uk

    07939917800

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
    • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
    How it operates
    • Makes grants to individuals
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Barnet, Enfield, Harrow, Hertfordshire,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People With Disabilities

    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
    John Lyon's Charity£80,200
    City Bridge Trust£29,060
    National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
    DCMS£10,000
    Wates Family Enterprise Trust£2,760
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to My Yard
    £29,060 23/11/2023
    24
    £29,060 is recommended over two years (£14,530, £14,530) to sustain food poverty activities for disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Harrow and Barnet.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Bushey Pantry
    £10,000 08/09/2023
    The funding will be used to develop the community allotment and deliver social events for the community. The project aims to bring people together and build new relationships.
    John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to My Yard
    £2,200 17/12/2022
    Cost-of-Living Uplift
    John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to My Yard
    £4,000 29/11/2022
    My Yard Christmas Activities
    Wates Family Enterprise Trust - My Yard Boxing-Group LT-Sept 2021
    £2,760 23/09/2021
    The grant will be used to start 2 groups of mentoring young people with weekly boxing, mentoring sessions, trips out and career advice and internships.
    John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to My Yard
    £4,000 21/06/2021
    Grange Summer Activities
    John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to My Yard
    £66,000 18/11/2020
    36
    My Yard Grange Farm Project Manager
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £10,000 16/09/2020
    "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
    CAF - Grant to The Angel Hands Foundation
    £2,000 22/04/2020
    Grant to The Angel Hands Foundation to support the organisation through COVID19
    John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to My Yard
    £4,000 02/12/2019
    12
    My Yard Holiday activities at Grange Farm
    National Lottery Community Fund - My Yard
    £10,000 25/01/2019
    12
    The project aims to distribute surplus food.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    • CATHERINE MARIE EDGAR Appointed: 2020
    • LOUISA JANE CARMICHAEL Appointed: 2018
    • PAULA ANN MERRONY Appointed: 2021
    • SRI SUDEVI Appointed: 2014
    • SARAH HABERGHAM Appointed: 2018
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/10/2014, number: 1158800
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • 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
    9 returns made; AR23: 16 days late, AR17: 13 days late,
    Main office

    87 Windmill Lane
    Bushey Heath
    Herts
    WD23 1NE

    Objectives

    THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO are: 1.The relief of sickness and the preservation of health both physical and mental of vulnerable children, young people (14-25) adults and families and the elderly, by provision of medical aids and equipment, personal and social activities and events to improve physical and mental health, and to prevent further social isolation and ill health through promoting community based initiatives and networking.2. For the purpose of this clause, ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: Unemployment, financial hardship, youth or old age, ill health (physical or mental), substance abuse or dependancy including alcohol or drugs, discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment, poor educational or skills attainment, relationship or family breakdown, poor housing ( ie housing that does not meet basic habitable standards), crime (either as a a victim of crime or an an offender rehabilitating into society)We provide tailor made support packages of food, health and occupational aids and social activities for all those above, particularly those who slip through the net/under the radar of voluntary and/or statutory service provision.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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