Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 3

Good reserves management: +3
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 13

COLOMBO STREET COMMUNITY AND SPORTS CENTRE

The Centre offers a range of affordable & accessible sports, community and leisure activities for the communities of Southwark and Lambeth; Facilities include a sports hall, gymnasium, 4 outdoor sports courts, cycling studio, therapy room. Activities provided include tennis, community football sessions for children and young people, netball, sports camps during school holidays

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£508	£571	£-63	£3	£238	£238	5	7	0
31/03/22		£536	£508	£29	£7	£301	£301	7.1	7	29
31/03/21		£258	£396	£-137	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£552	£556	£-5	£9	£409	£409	8.8	8	41
31/03/19		£783	£670	£113	£7	£414	£414	7.4	8	0
31/03/18		£724	£616	£108	£5	£301	£301	5.9	7	0
31/03/17		£720	£590	£130	£1	£193	£193	3.9	7	0
31/03/16		£637	£737	£-100	£3	£77	£77	1.3	3	0
31/03/15		£704	£660	£43	£8	£178	£178	3.2	6	0
31/03/14		£778	£669	£108	£22	£134	£134	2.4	6	0
31/03/13		£694	£713	£-20	£10	£26	£-69	-1.2	7	0
31/03/12		£721	£740	£-18	£13	£45	£-21	-0.3	6	0
31/03/11		£697	£693	£4	£12	£64	£11	0.2	9	0
31/03/10		£479	£476	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09		£407	£414	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/08	*	£410	£336	£74	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/07		£411	£392	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/06	*	£403	£480	£-77	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05	*	£769	£699	£70	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04	*	£278	£303	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 28%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.8

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 39 years

www.colombo-centre.org

helpdesk@coinstreet.org

02070211608

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Recreation

GiG Classification

Community sports activities

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Lambeth, Southwark,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Colombo Jubilee Trust
£15,000	31/03/2022	Public Health grant from the Environment & Leisure department for Health improvement
Sport England - COVID-19 CLRF
£53,600	28/06/2021 5	Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Leisure Recovery Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CLRF. This project lists its main activity as Sport and Physical Activity

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-75

ALICE EMILY WILCOCK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Assistant Director, Team London & Community Sport

ALEXANDRA PERRY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Communications Manager

ANN PEPPAS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Product

CHRISTOPHER CHARLES SYMONS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Executive

CLAIRE REINDORP Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Manager

ELIZABETH FRIMPONG Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Careers Adviser

JO-ANNA VAN DEN BOSCH Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Drama Therapist/Trust Arts Therapist Advisor (Slam

LEONARD IAN GOODRICH (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor

PETER CRANSTON STEPHENS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired

PATRICK WALLACE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Finance Director

YVONNE OWUSU-AFRIYIE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Early Years Education Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/12/1985, number: 292623
Registered at Companies House on 25/07/1985, number: 01933656

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR08: 0 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 90 days late,

Main office

COIN STREET
NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE
108 STAMFORD STREET
LONDON
SE1 9NH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THOSE RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON GREATER LONDON WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX AND OF POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SAID RESIDENTS AND WORKER IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROVIDE FULL-TIME FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID RESIDENTS AND WORKERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

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