Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 25 ?

THE UPPER ROOM (ST SAVIOUR'S) 

The Upper Room works with homeless people, economic migrants, ex-offenders and other socially disadvantaged people to improve their lives and conditions. The Upper Room aims to give people a second chance.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age
Established: 33 years

www.theupperroom.org.uk

uradmin@theupperroom.org.uk

02087405688

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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£533£570£-37£45£368£3296.912117
31/03/22£480£645£-164n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/21£564£570£-6£39£569£51510.81117
31/03/20£606£538£68£42£575£51011.410141
31/03/19£459£362£96n/an/an/an/an/a126
31/03/18£471£353£118£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£458£334£124£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£522£466£56£24£168£154460
31/03/15£494£477£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£393£364£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£361£360£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£343£311£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£298£287£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£244£228£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£283£249£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£240£269£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£177£221£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£128£152£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£173£113£59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£67£101£-34£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 90%
Reserves/Spending: 6.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 5.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 12 employees
  • 117 volunteers

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
City Bridge Trust£333,603
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£90,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£45,000
Greenwood Place£30,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£10,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
DCMS£9,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's)
£249,800 07/01/2024
Following submission of a revised budget, I am recommending a grant of £249,800 over five years (£45,210, £47,470, £49,840, £52,330, £54,950) for 1.0 FTE Chef Salary, NI & Pension, rent, ....more
London Catalyst - The Upper Room (St Saviour's) - 7
£1,750 28/09/2023
Hardship Fund
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - The Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£5,000 28/04/2023
to support the packaging costs and the food of providing take-away meals and food parcels to homeless and vulnerable adults and families who cannot eat inside our dining hall.
Greenwood Place - Grant to The Upper Room
£15,000 01/01/2023
Unrestricted funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£3,424 22/10/2022
We plan to pay a Counsellor to provide individual counselling and group workshops to homeless people who have been adversely affected by the pandemic.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 20/05/2022
UR4Driving
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£10,000 30/03/2022
UR4Driving project for young offenders
Greenwood Place - Grant to The Upper Room
£15,000 27/11/2021
Unrestricted funding
London Catalyst - The Upper Room (St Saviour's) - 4
£1,500 03/06/2021
Hardship Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 28/05/2021
UR4Driving
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's)
£74,700 17/09/2020
24
£74,700 over two further and final years (£36,800, £37,900) for 30 hpw of the Project Co-ordinator’s salary plus project costs of the UR4Driving Project.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,900 24/07/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to The Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£7,500 09/07/2020
3
Grant to The Upper Room (St Saviour's) to support the organisation through COVID19
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£6,725 07/05/2020
A counselling service four days a week to improve the emotional wellbeing of homeless and/or vulnerable adults who have been directly affected by Covid-19 through isolation, bereavement and/or ....more
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£45,000 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
Hammersmith United Charities - To provide remote support to people experiencing homelessness during COVID 19 lockdown.
£7,500 01/05/2020
Towards lap top and contribution to core costs.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Upper Room
£90,000 29/04/2020
36
'Hub for the Homeless' - a community response to improving the lives of those experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's)
£9,103 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £9,103, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 06/12/2019
UR4Driving
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Upper Room
£6,078 15/11/2019
We want to feed the homeless and vulnerable and help them back onto their feet through our UR4Jobs and UR4Driving projects.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Hub for the Homeless at The Upper Room
£3,000 23/09/2019
Refurbish the kitchen at The Upper Room, to improve the quality of services on offer as well as increase capacity
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£10,000 09/05/2019
construction of a training room for a charity which works with ex-offenders in London
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 25/07/2018
The Upper Room
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£6,172 29/11/2017
We want to buy a new cooker and hire a part-time Cook in order to feed the homeless - we serve over 32,000 healthy meals every year.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's)
£30,000 28/06/2017
12
towards capital costs for an extension to a building at a West London charity supporting people experiencing homelessness and at risk of destitution
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's)
£107,114 10/01/2017
36
£107,114 over three years (£35,000, £35,700, £36,414) for 2 dpw of the Project Co-ordinator salary plus project costs of the UR4Driving Project.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Upper Room
£35,000 09/06/2016
12
towards one year's continuation funding of the salary of the Project Manager & Administrator at the 'UR4 Driving' project, providing driving lessons for ex-offenders in London
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Upper Room
£90,000 12/09/2012
36
towards three years' core costs of a support project for people who are homeless in west London
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's)
£75,000 18/07/2012
Towards UR4 Driving which aims to reduce recidivism and improve the employability of young ex-offenders by teaching them to drive in return for voluntary work redistributing surplus supermarket food.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the salary costs of the project manager
£1,500 13/07/2012
Towards the salary costs of the project manager.
National Lottery Community Fund - UR4Jobs
£206,209 17/05/2012
60
This project aims to help ex-offenders and Central and Eastern European migrants to become ready for employment. It will provide a multi-lingual employment support service for over 300 beneficiaries ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Upper Room (St Saviour's)
£45,000 25/08/2011
the salary and on costs of the UR4Jobs Project Manager
Woodward Charitable Trust - Part-time administrator of the UR4Driving Project
£2,000 28/01/2011
Towards the part-time administrator of the UR4Driving Project.
National Lottery Community Fund - UR4Driving
£256,854 08/09/2010
60
This project aims to boost the employability and improve the life skills of ex-offenders by teaching them to drive in return for voluntary work. Based in Hammersmith and Fulham, the beneficiaries ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Upper Room (St Saviour's with St Mary's)
£75,000 14/01/2009
36
Towards Project costs Towards 'UR4 driving' project costs to reduce recidivism and improve the employability of young ex-offenders by teaching them to drive in return for voluntary work ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the UR4Driving project
£5,000 30/07/2008
Towards the UR4Driving project, to help train young ex-offenders to drive in return for voluntary work redistributing surplus food to four local day centres in West London.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-80
  • SIMON TUKE (Chair) Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Advertising Copy Writer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/10/1991, number: 1004354
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/12/1990, number: 02567517
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 142 days late, AR06: 57 days late, AR04: 24 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from EMMAUS MEDWAY LIMITED on 05/09/2022
  • Asset transfer in from EMMAUS MEDWAY LIMITED on 05/09/2022
Main office

C/O THE UPPER ROOM
ST SAVIOUR WENDELL PARK
COBBOLD ROAD
LONDON
W12 9LN

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONGST THE HOMELESS OR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR OWN INADEQUACY ARE UNABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AND THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ADVICE AND COUNSELLING TO ASSIST SUCH PERSONS TO CARE FOR THEMSELVES AND TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY DEVELOP TO FULL MATURITY AS RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND OF RELIGION, AND SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, BUT IN PRACTICE WEST LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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