Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 5
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION CHARITY

Life Skills Education Charity develop and deliver DAaRT (Drug, Alcohol and Resilience Training) resources in schools. Our programmes are independently evaluated and proven to work, put together using evidence from research and follow government guidelines and best practice. Our team of trained facilitators deliver our programmes to over 13,000 young people in over 300 schools each year.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male
  • 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
31/08/23£312£380£-68n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/22£416£457£-42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/21£554£509£46£8£159£1523.6410
31/08/20£500£399£101n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19£230£223£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/18*£214£208£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 8 years
(13 years as a company)

https://lifeskillseducation.co.uk

info@lifeskills-education.co.uk

03001113273

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Medical research
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Barnsley, Derby City, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Rotherham, Sheffield City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Life Skills Education Charity
£5,000 28/04/2023
to support tailored conversations for small groups of young people about their response to drugs, knives and alcohol. The intervention builds and introduces a decision-making model, and then the YP applies it to different scenarios.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 22/07/2022
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Key Stage 2 Life Skills Education Programme
£10,000 10/06/2022
The funding will be used to help young people in schools youth clubs community groups and government run youth inclusion programmes develop social emotional learning skills in themed activities. The project aims to provide programmes focussing on ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Life Skills Education Charity
£10,000 09/09/2020
purchase of IT equipment for a charity that works with alcohol abuse in Nottinghamshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Keeping Safe Online
£10,000 07/09/2018
12
This funding will be used to deliver an internet safety programme for vulnerable young people. The project aims to increase awareness of online safety and improve decision making skills.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 17-18
£13,100 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
National Lottery Community Fund - DARE Game Refresh and New Modules
£10,000 16/12/2015
12
The group will use the funding to create new software offering guidance on road safety, fire awareness and substance misuse. This will enable children and young people to access and download free interactive resources to improve and increase ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 41-62
  • CHRIS COOKE (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant
  • ELIZABETH MCINTYRE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • LESLIE AYOOLA Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
  • MATTHEW PHILLIPS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Teacher
  • REGINALD COX Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant
  • SUBHASH DESAI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Finance
  • THOMAS WHEATLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Public Sector
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/04/2017, number: 1172680
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/08/2011, number: 07742739
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR18: 9 days late,
Main office

Life Skills Education Centre
6 Sherwood Rise
NOTTINGHAM
NG7 6JF

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 9 TO 16 THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES WHO ARE VULNERABLE TO BECOMING ADDICTED TO OR DEPENDENT UPON DRUGS, IN PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND RAISING AWARENESS THROUGH EVIDENCED BASED LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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