Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 6

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 7

GROWING AGAINST VIOLENCE

GAV delivers evidence-based preventative education sessions. It delivers age appropriate sessions to students in school years 5 through to 10, providing a continuum of universal engagement. The curriculum includes award-winning lessons on sexual violence, knife crime, stop and search, gang recruitment and the anti-social use of social media. Sessions have been delivered to over 270,000 students.

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 including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

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	£107	£90	£18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	£141	£133	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21	£116	£117	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20?	£352	£281	£71	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/18	£169	£150	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/17	£165	£168	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/16	£183	£204	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 9 years

www.growingagainstviolence.org.uk

operations@growingagainstviolence.org.uk

07790034464

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Other welfare services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to Growing Against Violence
£5,000	01/12/2023	TASK fund donation towards core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Working towards a gang-free Croydon
£9,880	28/01/2022	The funding will be used to deliver to provide workshops and parent workshops to schools. The project aims to protect young people against peer-to-peer violence and exploitation both on the streets and online.
Woodward Charitable Trust - GAV sessions in educational settings in Croydon
£4,000	02/04/2019	Towards the delivery costs of GAV sessions in educational settings in Croydon.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 18-19
£30,000	03/09/2018	The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to voluntary and community sector groups and the ....more The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to voluntary and community sector groups and the Home Office made up to £800,000 available in 2017 to 2018.A second round of the fund was announced in the Serious Violence Strategy, launched by the Home Secretary on 9 April 2018.In 2018/19 were are increasing this fund to £1.56 million pound for 68 projects.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 17-18
£20,000	01/12/2017	The fund has been set up to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. Bids have been assessed on the extent to which they provide value for money ....more The fund has been set up to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. Bids have been assessed on the extent to which they provide value for money and demonstrate, based on their understanding of knife crime in the local area, that they will achieve at least one of the following key aims:Â? Prevent young people from becoming involved in carrying a knifeÂ? Respond to knife crime in our communitiesÂ? Improve support for knife crime offenders and offer an effective exit strategyÂ? Increase reporting of knife carryingÂ? Help young people to deal with conflict without resorting to violenceÂ? Support the siblings of young people involved in or at risk of involvement in knife violenceÂ? Build our understanding of the drivers behind knife crimeÂ? Build our understanding of how to prevent young people from carrying knives
Woodward Charitable Trust - Delivery of GAV workshops in 3 different educational settings
£2,500	17/11/2017	Towards the delivery of GAV workshops in 3 different educational settings in Croydon.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-68

ALLEN BARRY DAVIS BA HONS (Chair) Appointed: 2015

CHRISTOPHER JOHN HEAWOOD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Certified Accountant

DR DUNCAN BEW Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Consultant Surgeon

EDWARD BROWN KC Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Barrister, Queenâ€™S Counsel

ERROL MCGLOTHAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Managing Director

JOANNE SIMMANCE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Health Care Scientist

JONATHAN RODDICK Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Executive Head Teacher

MIKE FRANCIS HOWES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

RACHEL DUNCAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Coroners Officer

RHIANNON JUDITH CLARE SAWYER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: National Director Children'S Charity

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/09/2015, number: 1163738
Registered at Companies House on 09/09/2014, number: 09209205

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

7 returns made; all on time

Main office

18 Stoneleigh Broadway
Epsom
Surrey
KT17 2HU

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:1) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE;2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC; AND3) TO UNDERTAKE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, THROUGH ACTIVITIES INCLUDING:- THE PROVISION OF LEARNING PROGRAMMES THAT PROMOTE THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AND CRIME; AND- RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, AND EFFECTS ON SOCIETY IN GENERAL, AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR, OF PEER-ON-PEER VIOLENCE, GANG-RELATED CRIME, AND OTHER CRIME.

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