Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 5

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

THE LOWDOWN

The Lowdown is a Mental Health Charity, providing free and confidential support services for 11- 25 year olds in Northamptonshire. Our services include Counselling, Information, Advice & Advocacy, Wellbeing, LGBTQIA, Youth Groups and Sexual Health.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23?		£1,087	£878	£209	£0	£642	£412	5.6	35	17
31/03/21		£419	£408	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/20		£397	£384	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	65
31/03/19		£238	£249	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	83
31/03/18		£250	£198	£52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	67
31/03/17		£213	£181	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	51
31/03/16		£164	£150	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£142	£119	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£115	£80	£35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£99	£125	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£93	£122	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£172	£121	£51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£74	£124	£-51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£130	£127	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£120	£119	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£132	£120	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£116	£103	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£106	£90	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£83	£98	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 32%
Liabilities/Income: 56%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 64%
Reserves/Spending: 5.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2

Asset Split ?

Established: 2 years

https://thelowdown.info/

info@thelowdownnorthampton.co.uk

01604634385

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Mental health and addiction

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Northamptonshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

35 employees
17 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Northamptonshire Community Foundation	£36,975
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,980
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000
DCMS	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Care Packages for young people
£2,000	30/05/2023	Care Packages for young people
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - 19-25 Year Olds Counselling Sessions
£5,000	02/05/2023	Grant to The Lowdown
National Lottery Community Fund - The Lowdown
£9,990	29/09/2022	The group will use the funding to provide counselling support sessions for people who are living with a variety of mental health issues. This will improve levels of mental health and wellbeing.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - 19-25 year olds Support Sessions
£4,995	06/05/2022	one-to-one counselling support sessions
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - 19-25 Year Old Wellbeing Drop In
£3,000	07/09/2021	to provide a free, easily accessible and age-appropriate drop-in for 19-25 year olds to gain face to face support with their emotional health and wellbeing.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	20/08/2021	19-25 Counselling Support and Core Costs
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - 19 to 25 years olds Counselling Support
£19,980	05/05/2021	19 to 25 years olds Counselling Support
National Lottery Community Fund - Over 19's Counselling Support
£9,990	25/03/2021 6	The funding will be used to provide remote and face to face counselling to young people aged 19 to 25. The project aims to support vulnerable young people during the pandemic to improve their mental ....more The funding will be used to provide remote and face to face counselling to young people aged 19 to 25. The project aims to support vulnerable young people during the pandemic to improve their mental wellbeing.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - cleaning costs
£2,000	09/03/2021	cleaning costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	23/09/2020	"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 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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANDRE GORE Appointed: 2023

ANDREA MARTIN Appointed: 2021

BRENDAN DUNPHY Appointed: 2021

DR DEBORAH PATTON Appointed: 2021

GEORGINA BAYLISS Appointed: 2022

JONATHAN SMITH Appointed: 2021

MICHAEL SCANLAN Appointed: 2021

STEPHEN EDMONDS (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeships: DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST, THE METHODIST HOMESTEAD,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/12/2021, number: 1197273

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints 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
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

19 returns made; AR09: 13 days late, AR08: 131 days late, AR06: 37 days late, AR05: 79 days late, AR04: 430 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE LOWDOWN on 18/05/2022

Main office

The Lowdown
3 Kingswell Street
NORTHAMPTON
NN1 1PP

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, OR SOCIO ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES THROUGH:A. PROVIDING A WIDE RANGE OF FREE OF CHARGE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, ADULTS AND FAMILIES TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE IN IMPROVING THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING. B. PROVIDING COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES COVERING WELLBEING, SEXUAL HEALTH AND LGBTQ MATTERS, SIGN POSTING AND PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION. C. THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY AND PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY AND OTHER EVENTS TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING YOUNG PEOPLE AND MARGINALISED/MINORITY GROUPS. D. PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE IN TRAINING VOLUNTEERS AND COUNSELLORS IN ORDER TO ENHANCE PROVISION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

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