Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -8
Support Score: 4
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Latest return overdue -5
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

SEN FAMILY SATURDAYS

We run sessions every Saturday morning at Hornsey Road Children's Centre from 10:30 to 2pm, with resources and facilities to aid creativity and sensory needs of autistic children. The children have free play/craft activity, soft play and lunch. Once a month we have a special activity: outing, workshop or entertainer. Parents are given the opportunity to join a support group.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely female?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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
04/04/22*£5£20£-15n/a
04/04/21£11£8£3n/a
04/04/20£35£20£15n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.senfamilysaturdays.simplesite.com

Senfamilysaturdays@gmail.com

07946708797

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Islington,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities

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
Cripplegate Foundation£30,000
BBC Children in Need£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
True Colours Trust£2,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SEN Family Saturdays
£10,000 28/09/2023
This grant will provide autistic children with a play scheme at a children's centre in Islington (Hornsey Road), plus a supportive space for parents, including advice, signposting and community-building.
True Colours Trust - Towards the costs of workshops for parents and days out for children with SEND and their families
£2,500 13/09/2023
Towards the costs of workshops for parents and days out for children with SEND and their families.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To SEN Family Saturdays
£5,000 11/07/2023
SEN Family Saturdays
National Lottery Community Fund - SEN Family Saturdays
£9,900 19/08/2022
The funding will be used to continue and expand current work and the delivery of activity sessions helping families of autistic children aged 0-7 in Islington. The project aims to improve isolation extend social and support networks and help ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To SEN Family Saturdays
£10,000 27/07/2022
SEN Family Saturdays
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To SEN Family Saturdays
£5,000 02/11/2021
SEN Family Saturdays
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To SEN Family Saturdays
£10,000 28/04/2020
SEN Family Saturdays
National Lottery Community Fund - Advance and Support SEN
£9,800 23/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver workshops for families of children with SEN (Special Educational Needs). The project aims to enable children to reach their potential through the provision of recreational and social activities that they do not ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To SEN Family Saturdays
£10,000 11/04/2019
SEN Family Saturdays
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To SEN Family Saturdays
£5,000 05/03/2019
Advance and support SEN
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To SEN Family Saturdays
£10,000 27/11/2018
Family Saturdays
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • HELENA BEGUM MAJID Appointed: 2018
  • LAETITIA KHENCHELAOUI (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • MARIA PALADINI B.A. Appointed: 2018
  • MARIA CAROLINA OLIVA-TRISTAN RODRIGUEZ Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/02/2019, number: 1182095
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
3 returns made; AR22: 22 days late,
Main office

36 BERKELEY WALK
LONDON
N7 7RS

Objectives

1- TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (SEN) THROUGH:(A)THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTERESTS 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;(C)THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH SEN, BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE AND GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT DIAGNOSIS.2- TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE CAUSES, TREATMENT AND CARE OF THOSE WITH SEN, BY PROVIDING THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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