Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

BIG FUTURES FOUNDATION

We support children from disadvantaged backgrounds from five years old, right through to when they start work. Our goal is to help children succeed in school, in work, and in life. We do this by providing free counselling sessions and Family Activity Groups for children and their families, to help children and their families improve their emotional wellbeing, resilience and life skills.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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
31/12/23£109£97£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£89£74£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£35£56£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20*£66£32£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£24£22£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£23£20£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£14£2£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.bigfuturesfoundation.org.uk

admin@bigfuturesfoundation.org.uk

07503 493441

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • 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
  • Throughout England And Wales,
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Two Ridings Community Foundation£46,600
DCMS£24,102
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust£13,682
Masonic Trust£12,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
Co-Operative Group£7,288
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Futures Foundation
£2,749 21/10/2023
We would like to help children improve their emotional wellbeing, resilience and life skills. We provide free counselling services to children and their families and host family activity groups.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£12,000 18/10/2023
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to Big Futures Foundation
£2,000 12/12/2022
Funding will be used to purchase items that will be distributed to families in need. The items will include microwave toys to keep children warm, hot water bottles, thermos flask and 20 Christmas hampers.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Extending Our Reach
£10,000 07/12/2022
Funding towards CEO salary to help support the organisation expand into secondary schools in York.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Counselling and Life Skills Programme
£10,000 06/12/2022
Fudning will be used to provide 8 weeks of 1-to-1 counseliing to children and their parents particulalry those with anxiety and low self-esteem. The activities vary and include cookery, arts and carfts and life skills sessions as a way of engagement ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Activity Group
£9,900 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to deliver activity group sessions for children and families. The project aims to strengthen family relationships promote healthy lifestyles and wellbeing and support participants to develop life-skills and build resilience.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Big Futures
£5,000 14/09/2022
Funding for staff to reach two particular secondary schools in York for the first time, to work on identifying new funding opportunities, and to improve their evaluation processes.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Supporting children to be happy, engaged and proud to be themselves
£2,000 19/07/2022
Funding for staffing and activity costs of running Family Activity Groups for 4 months. These sessions focus on improving socialisation, reducing social isolation and building self-confidence.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Filey trip summer 2022
£600 05/07/2022
Funding to run a day trip to Filey including coach hire, picnic and ice creams for the children and their families.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Every child deserves the opportunity to have a big future and build a great life
£5,000 27/04/2022
Funding to continue work with disadvantaged children and their families in York by continuing to work with in schools, expanding to provide this service in new schools. BFF aims are: 1. To provide the emotional wellbeing and life skill development ....more
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - Helping kids build great lives (Hob Moor Primary School)
£7,459 15/02/2022
Counselling and Family Activity Group (Life Skills work) for children and families who attend Hob Moor Primary in York
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Futures Foundation
£4,540 24/10/2020
We’ll pay for a counsellor and activities at our Tang Hall school holiday club, to improve mental health and stop isolation for families.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£24,102 29/09/2020
"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
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£10,000 17/06/2020
Funding is sought to pay for consultation/input from business development, sales and fundraising experts in order to grow the foundation. The group support disadvantaged York children from age 5 through school and post 18 education or training to ....more
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - Wellbeing, Skills and Community - Closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged children through emotional wellbeing and life skills development for children and their families
£6,223 05/05/2020
To deliver a school-based counselling and life skills programme for disadvantaged children and their families
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£2,000 29/04/2020
Funding sought to provide regular food parcels, household essentials, prescriptions to the families we support and to those who are self isolating. To cover volunteer and staff expenses incurred from deliveries.
National Lottery Community Fund - BFF Family Activity Group
£10,000 27/06/2019
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The funding will be used to run activities for families in the local area, with the aim of improving mental health and well-being.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Helping Kids Build Great Lives - Closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged children through emotional wellbeing and life skills development for children and their families
£6,032 05/09/2017
Counselling project within schools with children and their parents
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CLAIRE DOUGLAS (Chair) Appointed: 2016
  • CHRISTINE MARMION-LENNON Appointed: 2023
  • DR GILLIAN MAIN Appointed: 2018
  • DR SEAN SWEENEY Appointed: 2016
  • EMMA JAMES Appointed: 2024
  • MARY HODGSON Appointed: 2017
  • SAMUEL ATWELL Appointed: 2016
  • VICTOR KLAYS Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/06/2017, number: 1173374
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
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR20: 5 days late,
Main office

19 CHESTNUT AVENUE
YORK
YO31 1BR

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND 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 AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).2) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPINGTHEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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