Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 11

No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Overall weighted support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 11

VOICE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE

The Company is established for exclusively charitable purpose namely for the advancement of education and the relief of poverty in relation to children and young people in Northern Ireland who have experience of being in care or being looked after by voluntary or statutory (namely Health Board) and Trusts and other such public organisations) bodies (which experience is referred to in this Memorandum and Articles of Association as that of 'care') with a view to ensuring that the general welfare and interests of such children and young people are advanced.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

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 ?

Year end	31/03/18	31/03/19	31/03/20	31/03/21	31/03/22	31/03/23
Income	£1,368,764	£1,219,069	£1,205,684	£1,301,586	£1,110,662	£2,116,635
Spending	£1,387,923	£1,256,812	£1,206,334	£1,179,864	£1,174,490	£1,431,391
Surplus/deficit	-£19,159	-£37,743	-£650	£121,722	-£63,828	£685,244

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Established: 9 years

www.voypic.org

info@voypic.org

Listed activities

The prevention or relief of poverty, The advancement of education, The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity, The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

GiG Classification

Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Advice/advocacy/information, Education/training, Human rights/equality, Research/evaluation, Youth development

Where it operates

Northern Ireland

This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Who it helps

Children (5-13 year olds), Youth (14-25 year olds)

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

Esmee Fairbairn	£175,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£140,000
BBC Children in Need	£60,000
The Clothworkers Foundation	£37,400
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£25,000
DCMS	£22,295

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voice of Young People in Care
£12,000	20/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Voice of Young People in Care
£3,700	30/11/2022	Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in Belfast
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voice of Young People in Care
£163,000	19/10/2022	Towards unrestricted core costs to enhance policy work to educate and support young people in and leaving care to positively impact and influence legislation, policy and practice, and the care of system in Northern Ireland
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Voice of Young People in Care
£33,700	02/02/2022	refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in Belfast
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£45,000	19/11/2021	Building a Better Future
Tudor Trust - Grant to Voice of Young People in Care
£10,000	16/03/2021	as addtional funding towards the renovation of a building to provide a fit-for-purpose youth space in North Belfast
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Shake It Off: tackling stigma in care.
£20,000	18/01/2021	VOYPIC delivers advocacy with and on behalf of young people in care. This grant will fund the organisation to support young people with experience of being in care to lead social action projects and to build and lead a membership scheme to engage ....more VOYPIC delivers advocacy with and on behalf of young people in care. This grant will fund the organisation to support young people with experience of being in care to lead social action projects and to build and lead a membership scheme to engage others in social action.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Voice Of Young People In Care
£60,000	09/09/2020 12	COVID19 - This project will engage young people in care who have been further isolated from their families due to Covid, to research and develop appropriate processes going forward to ensure the needs and voice of the young people are heard in their ....more COVID19 - This project will engage young people in care who have been further isolated from their families due to Covid, to research and develop appropriate processes going forward to ensure the needs and voice of the young people are heard in their care package.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£95,000	03/07/2020	Main Grants award
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£22,295	01/07/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Shake It Off: tackling stigma in care
£5,000	16/03/2020	VOYPIC delivers advocacy with and on behalf of young people in care. This mini-grant helps the organisation to support young people with experience of being in care to lead social action projects and to build and lead a membership scheme to engage ....more VOYPIC delivers advocacy with and on behalf of young people in care. This mini-grant helps the organisation to support young people with experience of being in care to lead social action projects and to build and lead a membership scheme to engage others in social action.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Voice of Young People in Care
£100,000	09/10/2018 12	towards the renovation of a building, jointly purchased by VOYPIC and Include Youth, to provide a fit-for-purpose youth space in North Belfast
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Voice Of Young People In Care
£104,161	02/03/2018 36	The project wil work with young people in the care system offering fun activities, one-to-one support and various programmes and projects.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Voice of Young People in Care
£45,000	04/02/2016 36	over three years towards the salary of the CEO to support joint work with Who Cares Scotland? focusing on the development of the Care Identity Strategy

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Further information may be available on the charity's page on the Commission website here

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Northern Ireland on 03/05/2016, number: NIC105019
Registered at Companies House on 01/01/1970, number: 0NI30526

Main office

100 Great Patrick Street, Belfast, BT1 2LU

Data Sources

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