Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

FUSION FAMILY AND YOUTH PROJECTS

To support families and young people through the provision of activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities. To develop and apply a range of interventions that support children families and young people in a range of issues that have an effect on their quality of life including: bullying, sexual health, sexual exploitation and domestic abuse.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • 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£60£67£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£62£32£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£41£27£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£51£69£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£81£66£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£62£64£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£45£59£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£91£65£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.fusionfamilyandyouthprojects.org

fusion.coordinator@gmail.com

07938026623

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire,
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
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,962
DCMS£5,760
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£3,910
Woodward Charitable Trust£1,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Summer Playscheme
£1,500 07/06/2024
Summer Playscheme
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Orange t-shirts volunteer project
£3,910 18/10/2023
to fund activities of volunteers youth club for one year - benefitting 35 people
National Lottery Community Fund - Fusion
£9,962 15/09/2023
The funding will be used to deliver activities for young people aged 8-17. The project aims to provide a safe space to build friendships develop new skills and become active in the community while reducing the risk of antisocial behaviour.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£20,000 05/11/2021
24
Weston Youth Grant
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£5,760 28/09/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Fusion Family and Youth Projects
£9,559 23/05/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to continue to run youth groups, planned by the young people themselves, to provide new opportunities to be social and to learn new skills.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fusion Family and Youth Projects
£2,400 18/07/2017
towards a day trip to the seaside for a group of disadvantaged children from Cambridgeshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Fusion Youth Clubs
£9,710 08/03/2017
12
This project will use funding to improve their youth club by running weekly sessions during term time for 11-15 year olds, 14 -17 year olds and 12-25 year olds with additional needs. This will give young people the chance to learn new skills, make ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • GRAHAM HEYWOOD Appointed: 2023
  • MIKE SHELLENS Appointed: 2014
  • NATALIE LEIGH-BROWN (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • PATRICK KADEWERE Appointed: 2023
  • SALLY ANNE MACKENZIE Appointed: 2014
  • STEPHANIE WEBB Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/12/2014, number: 1159563
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; AR18: 5 days late, AR17: 23 days late, AR16: 2 days late,
Main office

Huntingdon Youth Centre
Sallowbush Road
HUNTINGDON
Cambridgeshire
PE29 7AF

Objectives

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS BY DEVELOPING A RANGE OF INTERVENTIONS THAT SUPPORT CHILDREN FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN A RANGE OF ISSUES THAT HAVE AN EFFECT ON THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE INCLUDING: BULLYING, SEXUAL HEALTH, SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND DOMESTIC ABUSE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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