Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 18
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Return overdue: -3
  • Award winner
  • Overall weighted support: +18
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

SISTER SYSTEM

Sister System works with girls aged 13-24yrs to help them achieve a life free of abuse, with good mental health, such that they re-engage with education and move into and sustain education, employment or training post-16. Sister System does this by providing intensive educational programmes and a range of pastoral activities of support and guidance over a period of 8 years.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing

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
18/10/22£455£392£63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
18/10/21£467£196£271n/an/an/an/an/an/a
18/10/20£163£71£91n/an/an/an/an/an/a
18/10/19£32£13£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
18/10/18£10£2£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 20%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Established: 7 years

www.sistersystem.org

directors@sistersystem.org

07957 731234

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2023 Chidren and Youth
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
National Lottery Community Fund£439,179
City Bridge Trust£405,894
Esmee Fairbairn£309,090
Greater London Authority£293,932
KPMG Foundation£150,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£150,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£102,250
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£100,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sister System
£309,090 20/02/2024
36
Towards unrestricted core costs empowering care-affected girls from underrepresented minorities, and the organisations which exist to serve them, to change systems, processes and policies to better ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Sister System
£380,080 24/01/2024
60
£380,080 over five years (£51,650; £51,650; £92,260; £92,260; £92,260) towards costs associated with deliver of The Sisterhood programme.
Greater London Authority - New Deal for Young People Grants
£133,365 01/01/2024
We will deliver systematic change through lived-experience peer mentoring for 96 girls who are in/affected by the care system across 4 North London boroughs. Through a co-curated Leadership ....more
The Blagrave Trust - The Listening Fund Youth Leadership Fund
£81,764 30/11/2023
Sister System - TLF Advisers' Fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Scaling provision for care-experienced girls and young women
£150,000 02/10/2023
Sister System support care-experienced girls and young women, providing internationally recognised qualifications and a community of support to improve their life chances. This grant will allow ....more
Smallwood Trust - Protecting frontline services for women 18+
£50,676 29/09/2023
36
Frontline organisations led by women, to protect essential services for women most impacted by the cost-of-living-crisis.
The Childhood Trust - Transforming the lives of care affected girls
£2,000 20/06/2023
Critical support to 40 care affected girls (13-18 years) over the summer holidays at a time when they are most vulnerable to food poverty and violence. We will organise a respite trip for 15 girls, ....more
The Berkeley Foundation - Cost of Living Grant
£3,000 06/06/2023
One-off, unrestricted grant
The Berkeley Foundation - Resilience Fund
£30,000 20/03/2023
Resilience Fund - Year 2 Wave 2 - 2-year grant
Greater London Authority - Peer2Peer PowerUp
£160,567 27/01/2023
This uplift is for peer mentoring support to 270 additional girls who are in/affected by the care system across North London. Peer mentors/Big Sisters with lived experience will empower girls to ....more
Rosa UK - VftF-SISSYS-2022
£7,000 15/12/2022
£7,000 has been awarded to Sister System to run workshops about topics such as gas lighting, domestic violence, and unhealthy/healthy relationships for young women. The learning from the workshops ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Sister System
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Sister System
£100,000 13/12/2022
Main Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Sister System
£50,000 07/12/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Sister System
KPMG Foundation - Core funding: Bridging the Gap
£150,000 08/11/2022
36
Bridging the gap between care-affected girls and mainstream society by working to ensure that those girls and young women have the same opportunities as everyone else.
Impetus PEF -
£30,000 01/08/2022
National Lottery Community Fund - Sister System
£389,179 19/05/2022
The project is using funding to continue to deliver their core programmes which embed essential skills tools and strategies that enable recovery from the unique risks that girls who are affected by ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - SISTER SYSTEM
£13,295 01/04/2022
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£45,000 29/10/2021
24
Weston Youth Grant
Rosa UK - WTF-SISSYS-2021
£18,661 28/06/2021
£18,661 has been awarded to Sister System to deliver bi-weekly peer mentoring for 40 girls under the age of 18 including 22 priority beneficiaries that have experienced the care system that will ....more
Solace Women's Aid - Women's Sector Large Grants - England
£24,836 08/05/2021
This project aims to provide a 12 month accredited leadership programme for 12 care affected BAME young women who are at risk. They will increase educational opportunities and enter into further ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - (wave 5 LCRF) SS
£50,000 18/03/2021
11
The project is using funding to provide increased mental health and wellbeing support to young women in Tottenham ensuring the right level of therapeutic mentoring needs are met following the impact ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Sister System
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Sister System, awarded under the Foundation's Care Leavers funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge ....more
The Funding Network - Supporting and mentoring care leavers
£11,012 10/11/2020
Sister System is a charitable organisation delivering programs to young, female care leavers. Sister System?s mission is to bridge the gap between care-affected girls and mainstream society, by ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Sister System
£9,944 01/10/2020
The funding will provide a urgently needed 6 month programme of educational and therapeutic support to 10 BAME girls who have missed out on school and vital support from keyworkers during Covid-19. ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£23,371 03/07/2020
"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 ....more
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Sister System
£4,959 26/06/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Sister System, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Sister System
£4,060 21/05/2020
A grant of £4,060 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Sister System
£21,754 19/05/2020
A grant of £21,754 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards core costs
£1,000 26/03/2020
Towards core costs.
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£3,120 28/02/2020
The Sisterhood Programme - improving the life chances of care affected young girls at risk of organised serious crime.
London Catalyst - Sister System - 1
£4,000 07/05/2019
Creating an Ambassador group of care affected ?Big Sisters? to support an early intervention programme for girls in care.
National Lottery Community Fund - The big sister you never had
£9,944 22/03/2019
12
The project will deliver a range of accredited courses, mentoring support and networking events for young women who have left care. The aim is to create positive life outcomes and build relationships ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

  • ALIKI DESPONIA GEORGAKOPOULOU Appointed: 2020
  • ALLISON PHILBERT Appointed: 2022
  • KARAMJIT KAUR DHAMI Appointed: 2023
  • MARK WILLIAMS Appointed: 2018
  • RACHAEL SAUNDERS (Chair) Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/03/2018, number: 1177669
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Studio 31
The Trampery
639 High Road
LONDON
N17 8AA

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN AGED FROM 13 TO 21 WHO ARE IN OR HAVE BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE PUBLIC CARE SYSTEM BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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