Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 4

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 9

BRIGHTER FUTURES THROUGH SPORT

Brighter Futures Through Sport (BFTS) provides therapeutic mentoring interventions to children identified by schools to be failing academically and present with challenging behaviour. BFTS uses sport to empower, inspire, raise self-esteem and give confidence to every child working with, with the aim of improving behaviour and developing different capabilities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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		£254	£267	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/22		£207	£180	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/21		£207	£180	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20		£106	£110	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19		£137	£92	£44	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18	*	£31	£38	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

http://bfts.org.uk/

hello@bfts.org.uk

0800 092 5184

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Community sports activities

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Derby City, Derbyshire, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire,

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

John Lyon's Charity	£94,400
The Foyle Foundation	£6,000
The Grocers' Charity	£2,340

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - Brighter Futures Through Sport
£2,340	14/12/2023	To support weekly learning sessions for young people aged 15-18 who are on the verge of criminality, gangs, or anti-social behaviour or are already known to the criminal justice system.
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to BFTS
£5,900	17/12/2022	Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to BFTS
£88,500	18/11/2021	DBA Mentoring Program
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,000	11/02/2021	to provide football mentoring support for children with anxiety and low self-esteem (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - BFTS Business Support Initiative
£9,600	17/10/2019 12	BFTS Business Support Initiative
National Lottery Community Fund - BFTS Mentoring Initiative
£9,750	28/02/2018 12	This project will provide therapeutic mentoring in schools to boost children’s aspirations, confidence, self-belief and motivation.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

DANIELLE CHULAN (Chair) Appointed: 2019

DAVID PENDLE Appointed: 2022

JAMES WOOD Appointed: 2017

LEE CANOVILLE Appointed: 2017

LORRAINE SUZANNE JONES Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/12/2017, number: 1176158

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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

Filing Record

6 returns made; AR18: 102 days late,

Main office

PRIORY BARN
THE HOLLOWS
THURGARTON
NOTTINGHAM
NG14 7GS

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR PHYSICAL EDUCATION, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.2. TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH:(A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL, SPORTING OR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PRIMARILY THROUGH THE PLAYING OF AND COACHING IN ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL, OR OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF PROMOTING HEALTH, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

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