Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS 

Working across diverse inner-city communities reducing inequality, exclusion and disadvantage to provide opportunities and support for children, young people and adults to access education, employment, training & volunteering.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 age

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 recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 33 years

www.learningpartnerships.org.uk

info@learningpartnerships.org.uk

01138245414

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
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£559£673£-114£11£215£1763.12450
31/03/22£724£688£35£4£329£841.5030
31/03/21£675£682£-7£0£294£1683020
31/03/20£720£657£62£0£300£1883.428140
31/03/19£662£590£72£0£238£1773.628150
31/03/18£551£532£19£0£166£1403.2210
31/03/17£394£428£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£481£554£-73£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£642£597£45£48£255£1873.8160
31/03/14£639£704£-65£35£210£1562.7200
31/03/13£761£939£-178£79£275£2102.7230
31/03/12£1,021£1,391£-370£119£453£4253.7250
31/03/11£1,870£1,654£216£370£824£4323.1270
31/03/10£1,397£1,266£131£45£608£4063.9300
31/03/09£1,336£1,519£-183£57£476£3512.8330
31/03/08£2,852£2,603£249£673£660£4592.1330
31/03/07£1,171£1,066£105£84£410£2983.4360
31/03/06£973£743£230£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£800£951£-151£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£744£838£-94£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 3.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 8.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 24 employees
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Leeds City,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£488,473
Henry Smith Charity£122,800
Garfield Weston Foundation£60,000
Leeds Community Foundation£50,793
DCMS£42,642
Masonic Trust£15,662
J J Charitable Trust£10,600
Lloyds Bank Foundation£8,789
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
J J Charitable Trust - Towards its Let’s Read Programme
£10,600 15/11/2023
Towards its Let’s Read Programme, a volunteer support programme to improve disadvantaged children’s literacy skills.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£15,662 17/05/2023
Grant towards salary and equipment costs for the Gardening Sessions in Schools.
National Lottery Community Fund - Single Parent Power
£488,473 24/03/2023
IThis funding will be used to deliver employment related activities to move people closer or into the job market and support people with their barriers to engagement - such as issues relating to ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Learning Partnerships
£3,000 07/11/2022
Core costs for Youth Welfare & Education
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Learning Partnerships
£22,500 11/03/2021
We would like to use the Easter period to plan ahead.
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Learning Partnerships
£3,000 07/12/2020
Core costs for Youth Welfare & Education
Leeds Community Foundation - Let's Read
£15,855 07/10/2020
11
Grant to Learning Partnerships
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£42,642 22/09/2020
"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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Learning Partnerships
£8,789 24/07/2020
Grant to Learning Partnerships meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Learning Partnerships
£122,800 10/12/2019
36
towards three years' salary of a STEP key worker at a project providing coaching and support to long-term unemployed people from the BAME community in Leeds
Leeds Community Foundation - 2 Way Street
£2,438 06/11/2019
A new social lunch club offering chat, games and the opportunity to make a hot healthy meal to share and to contribute to a community cookbook.
Leeds Community Foundation - New Opportunities
£10,000 18/10/2019
14
Intensive 1-1 support targeted at long term unemployed and economically inactive adults from inner East Leeds’ most deprived areas to engage and inspire individuals to improve their life chances ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£60,000 16/04/2019
Learning Partnerships Leeds
Leeds Community Foundation - Let's Read
£15,505 28/02/2019
11
Let’s Read facilitates support for disadvantaged children to gain the essential literacy and language skills they need for future educational and employment opportunities to become independent in ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Learning Partnerships
£4,516 19/11/2018
Help us recruit and train new volunteers to provide support for disadvantaged children struggling with their literacy and language skills.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Learning Partnerships
£58,224 29/08/2017
36
The charity provides a wide range of learning opportunities to disadvantaged learners, to improve access and progression through education, training, employment and volunteering.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 06/06/2017
WCA 2017 - 2018 Cohort
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Learning Partnerships
£60,189 12/11/2014
The charity provides a wide range of learning opportunities to disadvantaged learners, to improve access and progression through education, training, employment and volunteering.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 36-75
  • MARTIN TUDGE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Financial Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/07/1991, number: 1003603
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/07/1991, number: 02628224
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS
FINANCE MANAGER
THE BURTON BUSINESS PARK
HUDSON ROAD
LEEDS
LS9 6DJ

Objectives

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS LIVING IN AREAS OF DEPRIVATION IN LEEDS AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.(2) THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN NEED AND THEIR ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE BY: A. THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND COUNSELLING; B. THE PROVISION OF SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, EMPLOYMENT AND VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES; C. THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SOCIETY AND WHICH PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THEIR INTEGRATION IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITY COHESION.(3) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT.(4) THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO EDUCATION AND URBAN RENEWAL IN AREAS OF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BURMANTOFTS, CHAPELTOWN, HAREHILLS OR SURROUNDING AREAS OF LEEDS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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