Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE VALLEY PROJECT

The Valley Project runs regular, free, open access play sessions where children use hand tools to build dens and climbing towers, or anything else their imaginations run to. We source locally a wide range of building materials for them to use. We give children the freedom to plan the space and construct the play space safely. Children also cook campfire meals and snacks every session.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 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
31/03/24£267£237£31n/a
31/03/23£249£224£25n/a
31/03/22£142£161£-19n/a
31/03/21£175£140£36n/a
31/03/20£170£134£36n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.thevalleyproject.co.uk

admin@thevalleyproject.co.uk

07873630950

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bradford City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
National Lottery Community Fund£240,517
Leeds Community Foundation£127,909
Tudor Trust£105,000
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£90,000
BBC Children in Need£18,000
DCMS£10,809
Two Ridings Community Foundation£5,500
Co-Operative Group£3,338
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Yes Mush!
£15,000 24/06/2024
17
Grant to The Valley Project
National Lottery Community Fund - The Valley Project
£220,517 19/05/2023
Funding will be used to continue work with children young people and families in Bradford. The organisation runs open access sessions for children aged 5 years and older allowing them to play in a safe space access food and learn life skills.
Leeds Community Foundation - Valley Tots - Word Play
£15,802 16/11/2022
Grant to The Valley Project
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Assessor Award
£500 15/11/2022
Assessor Award
National Lottery Community Fund - Valley Connect
£10,000 04/11/2022
The funding will be used to deliver small group sessions to younger people. The project aims to improve mental health wellbeing and reducing stress and anxiety.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Valley Project
£90,000 27/10/2022
17% of salaries and running costs fover 3-years for an adventure playground that supports families the community of Holmewood, South Bradford.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Valley Project
£18,000 02/09/2022
This grant will empower children and young people from Bradford to deliver Social Action in their community.
Leeds Community Foundation - Valley Connect
£9,792 18/08/2022
Grant to The Valley Project
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Holme' Grown - Grow, Cook & Eat
£5,000 30/06/2022
Funding for staff, running costs and equipment for a project for children and young people to grow their own fruit, salad and veg and to cook healthy meals in an outdoor kitchen.
Leeds Community Foundation - Holme Grown
£30,000 18/05/2022
Grant to The Valley Project
Leeds Community Foundation - Let Creation Reign
£9,962 24/03/2022
TVP’s Young Leaders have brainstormed creative ideas they feel local CYP would enjoy. The list was huge so they narrowed it down to 4 main events, plus a range of smaller daily activities. June will be a month of creation, TVP’s weekday play ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - The Valley Project - Tool License
£8,600 17/11/2021
The Valley Project will use a range of practical skills-based training programmes, supporting the children and young people to undertake a varied range of tasks, starting with basics such as health and safety moving through various stages of ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to The Valley Project
£10,000 23/08/2021
11
Grant to The Valley Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Let's Get Back to Playing Out
£10,000 25/03/2021
11
The funding will be used to bring together children and young people with low confidence anxiety and emotional distress through activities such as play sessions arts and crafts sports and gardening to help build connections. The project aims to ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Valley Project
£1,800 08/03/2021
Capital costs for Youth Welfare & Education
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to The Valley Project
£6,850 20/11/2020
6
Grant to The Valley Project
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Valley Project
£3,338 24/10/2020
We will build an outdoor kitchen and raised growing beds where we can grow our own produce and cook healthy meals for the local community.
Leeds Community Foundation - The Valley Project -Holiday Fun
£4,103 29/09/2020
4
The Valley Project will deliver fun school holiday play provision, engaging children and young people in adventurous and challenging activities (such as den building, tool use, parkour, messy play, team games, etc.) and supporting them to prepare a ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Valley Project
£105,000 01/09/2020
36
over three years towards the core costs of an adventure playground in the Holme Wood area of Bradford
Leeds Community Foundation - The Valley Project - Play - Eat - Grow!
£5,000 15/04/2020
6
Emergency food and/or activity provision in response to Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown.
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to The Valley Project
£8,000 14/04/2020
Grant to The Valley Project
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£7,206 28/02/2020
The Valley Project Youth Sessions
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£3,603 28/02/2020
The Valley Project Youth Sessions. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20
Leeds Community Foundation - Eat Healthy - Move More - Have Fun!
£4,800 14/02/2020
6
Additional activities that promote physical health and healthy lifestyles, including growing our own produce, cooking nutritional meals on our camp fire, providing nutritional advice and encouraging and monitoring physical activities through the use ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - The Valley Project - Tool Licence
£7,530 22/11/2019
11
Similarly, to how a child at school would receive a ‘pen licence’ once they have reached a set standard TVP will award children with a range of ‘tool licences’ when they have shown competencies in set tasks related to tools based around ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - TVPCC's (The Valley Project Community Champions)
£6,930 08/11/2019
11
The recruitment of Community Champions to take on a leadership role within The Valley Project through confidence building, youth-led community engagement and pro-active change, leading to true participation in decision making and community ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Healthy Holidays -The Valley Project (extended provision)
£5,090 14/06/2019
7
The Valley Project will deliver four, four hour sessions during school holidays (including half terms), engaging children and young people in adventurous and challenging activities (such as den building, tool use, parkour, messy play, water fights) ....more
Sport England - Fencing, lighting and hygiene facilities
£42,500 23/05/2019
7
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Fencing, lighting and hygiene facilities. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - The Valley Project - Edible Forest
£4,000 27/03/2019
Funding to cover staff, insurance, tools/PPE and gardening/landscaping costs. To create an Edible Forest from which foods can be harvested and children can prepare and cook these foods. Also to manufacture bug hotels and to educate on daily crop ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - The Valley Project
£4,758 18/03/2019
12
To engage children and young people in positive adventurous play experiences, providing guidance and early intervention, supporting them to make positive life choices.
Leeds Community Foundation - The Valley Project
£3,842 23/11/2018
5
Our project will empower the children and young people of Holme Wood to become true decision makers, leading on the development of their own play space, giving them the ownership, confidence and skills to plan and design, source funds and materials ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ELIZABETH ROBINSON Appointed: 2021
  • JAMES LANG Appointed: 2019
  • JOHN PATRICK WADDINGTON Appointed: 2019
  • MATTHEW CLIVE EDWARDS Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/02/2019, number: 1182026
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Valley Project
The Valley
Stirling Crescent
BRADFORD
West Yorkshire
BD4 0FJ

Objectives

1) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE, RELIEVE AND HELP CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF HOLME WOOD AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF BRADFORD THROUGH:(A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND 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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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