Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 10
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

CREATIVE OPPS CIO

Creative Opps CIO gives disadvantaged young people aged 6-30 access to knowledge, learning opportunities and experience. We provide support and activities to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
31/08/23£85£56£29
31/08/22£10£10£0
31/08/21£0£0£0
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

http://creativeopps.org/

contact@creativeopps.org

07952701641

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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£87,066
ZING£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,987
Woodward Charitable Trust£600
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£600 31/10/2023
Core costs
The Blagrave Trust - Work with young people
£31,066 30/09/2023
Creative Opps CIO
The Blagrave Trust - The Listening Fund Grassroots Fund
£26,000 31/08/2023
Creative Opps CIO
The Blagrave Trust - Work with young people
£30,000 25/10/2022
Support to estblish a cooperative membership model with young people
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Opps Mentoring
£9,987 21/10/2022
This project will launch a mentoring programme for young people aged 16-25 where it will match 15 young people with mentors to support them for six months. Mentors will act as role models providing ....more
ZING - Supporting the delivery of work placement and mentoring programmes, with a three-year goal of becoming a self-sustaining trading entity.
£20,000 01/10/2022
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Creative Opps gives young people access to the tools, networks, and experience that they need to independently achieve their ambitions. They deliver user-led programmes, designed by and for young ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

  • EDI WHITEHEAD Appointed: 2022
  • EMER MARY MORRIS Appointed: 2020
  • JOSHUA SHAUL DAVID PUGH Appointed: 2020
  • LUCY ROLINGTON Appointed: 2022
  • STEFANOS DIMOULAS Appointed: 2024
  • TAVANNA HUTCHINSON Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/08/2020, number: 1190916
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

Creative Opps CIO
MILDMAY COMMUNITY CENTRE
WOODVILLE ROAD
LONDON
N16 8NA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 6-30, WITH A FOCUS ON YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY AND/OR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, THROUGH:(A) FACILITATING THEIR ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCE;(B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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