Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 7

Future income +5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 9

REASONS WHY FOUNDATION

We provide through-the-gate mentoring to people leaving custody, throughout the London area. We also run behavioural change programmes, helping people involved in crime to make better decisions and reduce the number of people who re-offend, improving lives, lowering crime rates and reducing the cost to the tax payer. We know that people will only change if they want to. We listen in order to understand the reasons that people offend in the first place, then provide help to enable them to create new lives, free from the anxieties of their past.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male
The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit
31/12/19	£91,919	£95,835	-£3,916
31/12/18	£132,297	£99,648	£32,649
31/12/17	£95,722	£107,413	-£11,691

Established: 12 years

https://www.therwf.org/

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GiG Classification

Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders

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

Tudor Trust	£92,000
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund	£64,800
Greater London Authority	£29,550
DCMS	£20,714
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,990
City Bridge Trust	£15,500
Woodward Charitable Trust	£2,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Reasons Why Group Sessions
£9,990	21/04/2023	The funding will be used to provide group activity sessions for people leaving prison or serving community sentences. This project aims to provide therapeutic support improve self-esteem and reduce ....more The funding will be used to provide group activity sessions for people leaving prison or serving community sentences. This project aims to provide therapeutic support improve self-esteem and reduce social anxiety.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000	31/10/2022	Core costs
Greater London Authority - Young Life Changer
£29,550	19/10/2022	We will work with 20 young people involved in crime, matching them with an aspirational mentor who will work with them 1:1 with weekly contact to support behavioural change for as long as needed. ....more We will work with 20 young people involved in crime, matching them with an aspirational mentor who will work with them 1:1 with weekly contact to support behavioural change for as long as needed. Using our innovative, tried and tested approach we will co-ordinate support with partners to reduce re-offending.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Reasons Why - Therapeutic Support
£10,000	16/04/2021	The funding will be used to deliver more therapeutic support to ex offenders as part of an existing mentoring programme. The project aims to help offenders impacted by poor mental health or childhood ....more The funding will be used to deliver more therapeutic support to ex offenders as part of an existing mentoring programme. The project aims to help offenders impacted by poor mental health or childhood trauma.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Reasons Why Foundation CIC
£2,000	07/01/2021	as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Woodward Charitable Trust - The Reasons Why Foundation core costs
£1,000	19/10/2020	Core costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£20,714	29/07/2020	"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."
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Reasons Why Foundation
£15,500	17/06/2020	£15,500 towards three months of costs, excluding core costs.
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - The Reasons Why Foundation - 2
£64,800	19/03/2020	Social franchising as a route to greater organisational resilience and impact.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Reasons Why Foundation CIC
£90,000	04/10/2019 36	over three years towards a case worker's salary at an organisation supporting offenders on release from custody in London
Walcot Foundation - The Reasons Why - Lambeth
£65,000	19/07/2016 36	The Reasons Why - Lambeth

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (4)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 30-63

Commentary:The Board is all male

BLACKMAN, Roger
Appointed: 2012
Occupation: Youth Work And Criminal Justic

BREES, Christopher Harry
Appointed: 2019
Occupation: Civil Servant

HILLIERY, Andrew Richard
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Company Director

WILLIS, Simon Peter
Appointed: 2017
Occupation: Managing Director

Legal constitution

Registered at Companies House on 11/07/2012, number: 08139339

Main office

Office 4 @ Change Up, 11 Sancroft Street, London London SE11 5UG

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