Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

BIG LEAF FOUNDATION

Big Leaf Foundation aims to provide a nurturing programme of activities, projects and events, that focus on combating social isolation for displaced young people in Surrey.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • There are only 4 trustees

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£226£208£18
31/03/22£256£192£64
31/03/21£93£93£0
31/03/20£133£45£88
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.bigleaffoundation.org.uk

contact@bigleaffoundation.org.uk

07464386874

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Surrey,
Who it helps
  • 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
The Blagrave Trust£65,300
Community Foundation for Surrey£48,510
Youth Music£18,520
AB Charitable Trust£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£6,000
Co-Operative Group£3,108
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Refugee Week Activities 2024
£2,000 12/04/2024
1
Funding towards an annual project for refugees which will be a full week of activities, which are designed to help refugees address challenges they face
Community Foundation for Surrey - UASC Care Leavers improving access to cultural, creative and educational activities
£5,000 20/03/2024
11.774193548387
Funding to support unaccompanied minors who have experience of the care system to participate in cultural trips that support a package of support.
Community Foundation for Surrey - translation services required to support casework
£5,000 09/01/2024
22.064516129032
Funding for translation services to help young displaced people access support.
The Blagrave Trust - The Listening Fund Youth Leadership Fund
£65,300 30/11/2023
Big Leaf Foundation - TLF Advisers' Fund
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Leaf Foundation
£1,398 21/10/2023
We support young people in building confidence and knowledge to empower them and contribute to both the local community, and to the Big Leaf Foundation itself, helping shape what we do.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Leaf Foundation
£1,710 22/10/2022
We wish to facilitate exploration of identity, advocacy, leadership and legal rights to empower our Grassroots Young Leader volunteers to make a significant contribution to Big Leaf and its aims.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Core costs application
£10,000 13/07/2022
Funding towards the running costs of a charity providing a range of support for unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in Surrey
Community Foundation for Surrey - Stability Project | equine therapy
£9,480 05/07/2022
Funding for an equine therapy programme to support unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in Surrey
Community Foundation for Surrey - Funding towards the costs associated with the temporary housing solutions for evacuees from Afghanistan
£3,950 12/11/2021
6
Funding towards the provision of support for evacuees from Afghanistan.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Big Leaf Foundation
£15,000 01/07/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Big Leaf Foundation aims to support displaced young people overcome barriers in accessing education, support, employment and becoming part of their community, by ....more
Youth Music - Music Connects
£18,520 01/07/2021
Music Connects
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID 19 - Advice and Support
£1,500 05/03/2021
Emergency COVID translations into the languages spoken within the local displaced community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Music Connects
£6,000 06/11/2020
6
The funding will be used to create a participant-led cross-cultural multi-lingual song writing project leading up to a final recording. The project aims to create a piece of music to reflect the ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Equine Assisted Therapy for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
£10,000 16/07/2020
11
Equine Assisted Therapy for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - Asylum seekers
£1,580 08/04/2020
Funding for a project supporting Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children during the Coronavirus pandemic
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • DAVID WAGSTAFF Appointed: 2020
  • JOCELYN ELAINE ZANASI Appointed: 2018
  • KATHRYN WILSON Appointed: 2022
  • VICKI MARIA LOUISE ASHRAF FELGATE (Chair) Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/12/2018, number: 1181180
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 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
  • 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
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

PO BOX 1544
WOKING
GU24 8UH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG DISPLACED YOUNG PEOPLE IN SURREY WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION BY PROVIDING:A) EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL AND SOCIAL SKILLS;B) OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIAL, RECREATIONAL, SPORTS, ARTS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS INVOLVING THE WIDER COMMUNITY THAT BUILD CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE DISPLACED YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DEFINED AS:• UNACCOMPANIED ASYLUM SEEKING CHILDREN (UASC) (UNDER 18) LIVING IN SURREY EITHER IN FOSTER CARE OR SUPPORTED HOUSING (E.G., YOUTH HOSTELS) INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARRIVED AS UASC BUT HAVE SINCE BEEN GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS.A UASC IS DEFINED BY THE GOVERNMENT AS “AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS UNDER 18, HAS ARRIVED IN THE UK WITHOUT A RESPONSIBLE ADULT, IS NOT BEING CARED FOR BY AN ADULT WHO BY LAW OR CUSTOM HAS RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO, IS SEPARATED FROM BOTH PARENTS AND HAS APPLIED FOR ASYLUM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN HIS/HER OWN RIGHT.• DISPLACED YOUNG PEOPLE (UP TO 21 YEARS) IN THE UK UNDER THE VPRS (VULNERABLE PERSON RESETTLEMENT SCHEME).THE GOVERNMENT DEFINES ‘DISPLACED YOUNG PERSONS UNDER VPRS’ AS AT RISK CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RESETTLED TO THE UK BY THE GOVERNMENT.• UASC/REFUGEE CARE LEAVERS (18 – 25 YEARS) UNDER THE CARE OF SURREY SOCIAL SERVICE.‘A CARE LEAVER’ IS DEFINED AS “A YOUNG PERSON OVER THE AGE OF 16 WHO HAS BEEN IN CARE OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITY AND/OR HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE TRUST FOR AT LEAST 13 WEEKS SINCE THE AGE OF 14.2) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: (A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE AND RELIGION;(B) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS; AND(C) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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