Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

PRETTY PLEATS LTD 

Pretty Pleats Ltd supports families experiencing poverty and financial hardship through the sale ofmassively discounted new and/or repurposed goods.The objectives of the charity as stated in the Memorandum and Articles of Association: The preventionand relief of financial hardship, in particular but not exclusively by the recycling of school uniforms andother items.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board is completely female

Financial Data ?

This charity has not yet lodged any accounts with the Charities Commission.
Established: 1 years

prettypleatslondon@gmail.com

07486657344

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Hackney Council - Grant to Pretty Pleats Ltd
£996 31/01/2023
Pretty Pleats Warmer Winter Sale
National Lottery Community Fund - Uniform Station
£10,000 19/08/2022
The funding will be used to provide new school uniforms for children at subsidised costs for low income families. The project aims to reduce causes of bullying and help improve social inclusion and ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-57
  • TAMAR LOWY (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/01/2023, number: 1201622
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/04/2021, number: 13357794
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Main office

32 LEMSFORD CLOSE
GROVELANDS ROAD
LONDON
N15 6BY

Objectives

THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE RECYCLING OF SCHOOL UNIFORMS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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