Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 9

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Strong growth: +2
Volatile income: -3

Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 9

CAMDEN GIVING

This is a grant making charity, you can view its grants here

Camden Giving connects Camden to end local inequality. Provide GrantsInstigate collaboration between sectorsRaise awareness of inequality in London.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£1,280	£1,453	£-173	£0	£683	£317	2.6	8	7
31/03/22	£1,012	£1,102	£-90	£0	£856	£230	2.5	8	53
31/03/21	£2,341	£1,667	£674	£0	£947	£268	1.9	8	80
31/03/20	£2,977	£2,624	£354	£0	£667	£206	0.9	6	10
31/03/19	£614	£389	£225	£0	£313	£34	1.1	4	3
31/03/18	£159	£69	£90	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 43%
Liabilities/Income: 40%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 46%
Reserves/Spending: 2.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3

Asset Split ?

Established: 7 years

www.camdengiving.org.uk

07872534079

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Camden,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

8 employees
7 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£262,471
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£225,000
City Bridge Trust	£140,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Camden Giving: Youth-led participatory grant-making
£5,000	18/01/2023	Camden Giving is an independent charity working with businesses in the area to overcome local inequality. They run participatory grant-making, enabling local residents to give time, skills or money ....more Camden Giving is an independent charity working with businesses in the area to overcome local inequality. They run participatory grant-making, enabling local residents to give time, skills or money to inform services in their community. This grant supports the organisation’s Future Change Makers Fund, a participatory grant-making programme through which 16–25-year-olds make decisions on which youth services the organisation funds. Over the next 24 months, Camden Giving will increase its grant spend, develop new youth-led approaches to reporting, integrate a racial justice focus into the programme, and improve its evaluation.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Camden Giving: Youth-led participatory grant-making
£100,000	07/12/2021 24	Camden Giving is an independent charity working with businesses in the area to overcome local inequality. They run participatory grant-making, enabling local residents to give time, skills or money ....more Camden Giving is an independent charity working with businesses in the area to overcome local inequality. They run participatory grant-making, enabling local residents to give time, skills or money to inform services in their community. This grant supports the organisation’s Future Change Makers Fund, a participatory grant-making programme through which 16–25-year-olds make decisions on which youth services the organisation funds. Over the next 24 months, Camden Giving will increase its grant spend, develop new youth-led approaches to reporting, integrate a racial justice focus into the programme, and improve its evaluation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fostering Sustainable Funding
£227,751	11/02/2021 60	Camden Giving is using funding to develop a sustainable funding pipeline for civil society in the borough over the next five years which has been disrupted by COVID-19. The grant will cover salaries ....more Camden Giving is using funding to develop a sustainable funding pipeline for civil society in the borough over the next five years which has been disrupted by COVID-19. The grant will cover salaries allowing the group to build stronger relationships with the corporate sector and extend their model. Camden Giving enables people who live and work in Camden to co-create communities that are fair and prosperous providing one to one support to grant applicants and also provides support to lived experience leaders who often face additional barriers in their work. The project helps build resilience through volunteering and enables local people to lead change through participatory grant-making.
National Lottery Community Fund - Camden Giving - Covid 19 Request
£34,720	03/07/2020 6	Camden Giving will use the funding to cover core costs over the next 6 months so that they can work closely with grassroots social actions in the borough of Camden.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Camden Giving
£140,000	24/06/2020 36	£140,000 over three years (£50,000, £45,000, £45,000) as core funding contributions towards the Director and Assistant Director posts.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000	07/05/2020 3	Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Future Changemakers
£100,000	03/12/2019 24	To work with partner organisations to create a Future Changemakers Fund, to be invested in local youth services.
National Lottery Community Fund - Future Changemakers
£40,000	22/02/2019 12	The project will use funding to bring together a number of organisations in Camden to give young people with lived experience the opportunity to decide what projects are funded in the area. The ....more The project will use funding to bring together a number of organisations in Camden to give young people with lived experience the opportunity to decide what projects are funded in the area. The project will work with young people and train them at weekly evening sessions.
National Lottery Community Fund - Businesses: Think Local and Act Local
£9,950	26/03/2018 12	This project will deliver a campaign to strengthen the capacity of the local voluntary sector by bringing local businesses and charities together.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:

FRANCI VIVIANA Appointed: 2023

MARIAM HASSAN Appointed: 2023

GRAHAM DYER Appointed: 2020

NATHAN DYKE Appointed: 2020

ROSE ALEXANDER Appointed: 2020

TOM HOLLISS Appointed: 2018

VANESSA CORRINNE BROWNE Appointed: 2022

ALLAN SUTHERLAND Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Marketing Director

SIMON PITKEATHLEY (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: CTU COMMUNITY PROJECT,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 31/08/2017, number: 1174463

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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

6 returns made; all on time

Main office

5-7 Buck Street
LONDON
NW1 8NJ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN AND SURROUNDING LONDON BOROUGHS, INCLUDING:A) THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; B) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY; C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; D) THE RELIEVE OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER; E) THE PROMOTION OF THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; F) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND THE FOSTERING OF GREATER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS; AND G) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY (AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY).

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