Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

ST CLEMENT AND ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 

Our vision is for everyone in our community to release their potential and live fulfilled lives. We achieve this through education, employment and wellbeing support in a safe and compassionate space. We provide:Employment support for young people and adults;Children and young people's education programmes;Adult Learning courses;Wellbeing and support activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
Established: 32 years

www.clementjames.org

reception@clementjames.org

02072218810

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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
31/08/23£1,341£1,313£28£74£746£7466.837150
31/08/22£1,297£1,212£85£71£718£711739100
31/08/21£1,260£1,207£54£61£633£6336.340200
31/08/20£1,200£1,191£9£63£579£5795.831200
31/08/19£1,092£1,061£31£61£570£5706.428200
31/08/18£1,173£1,099£74£36£539£5395.9270
31/08/17£1,047£998£50£38£465£4655.6260
31/08/16*£771£764£7£24£415£4156.5250
31/08/15£686£637£49£7£408£0n/a200
31/08/14£677£583£94£7£360£3477.1180
31/08/13?£766£801£-35£4£266£2383.6170
31/03/12£477£458£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£437£416£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£441£396£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£390£388£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£431£385£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£408£415£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£335£287£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£276£293£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£245£224£22£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 23%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 6.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 3.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kensington And Chelsea,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 37 employees
  • 150 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
National Lottery Community Fund£637,562
Henry Smith Charity£186,000
City Bridge Trust£118,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£100,000
DCMS£95,333
The Childhood Trust£20,000
The London Community Foundation£20,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The ClementJames Centre
£1,119 21/10/2023
We would like to continue with our wellbeing workshops, which include a shared reading group, conversation club and monthly gardening sessions.
National Lottery Community Fund - Intensive 1:1 Support in North Kensington
£330,000 27/01/2023
Funding will be used to continue intensive one-to-one support to tackle local unemployment educational inequality and other practical issues such as housing debt and benefits in North Kensington. ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to St Clement & St James Community Development Project
£75,000 30/06/2022
Continuation funding for our Employment Support Programme which provides a package of intensive support to help people find work or training.
The Childhood Trust - C-59126
£10,000 28/06/2022
Our programme provides young people at risk of exclusion or who have fallen behind at school with a safe space to explore their aspirations and hopes for their future and empowers them with the ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The ClementJames Centre
£90,000 17/05/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an Adult Learning Programme providing English language provision, including classes and one-to-one support, for disadvantaged communities, impacted by the ....more
The Childhood Trust - ClementJames Appeal - Champions for Children
£10,000 22/06/2021
Many of our young people have been heavily impacted by Covid-19 and are in danger of falling behind in their school work. We know that with your support we can make a real difference in the lives of ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to ClementJames Centre
£2,000 13/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The ClementJames Centre
£15,000 11/12/2020
12
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The ClementJames Centre
£96,000 13/11/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of the 'Employment Support Programme' project providing a range of one-to-one employment support and mentoring for vulnerable people in ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The ClementJames Centre
£2,941 24/10/2020
Our wellbeing and support activities will empower local people to overcome barriers and challenges, and engage with their own wellbeing.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to St Clement & St James Community Development Project
£25,000 06/10/2020
12
Supporting people to gain meaningful and sustainable employment
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£95,333 31/07/2020
"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 London Community Foundation - Grant to The Clement James Centre
£20,000 08/07/2020
To accommodate the increased demand for our Advice and Guidance Programme, we have deployed staff from other areas. This grant will enable us to address the funding deficit created by the ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St Clement & St James Community Development Project
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund laptops for staff to better support children and young people who are isolated at home due to Covid-19, and help them increase their academic confidence and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Clement & St James Community Development Project
£3,269 15/11/2019
We want to run a numeracy and literacy programme to support young people in mainstream education.
National Lottery Community Fund - Intensive One-to-One Support in North Kensington
£307,562 20/09/2019
36
Intensive One-to-One Support in North Kensington
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
£23,000 16/09/2019
£23,000 towards the resilience support programme proposed by ClementJames to deliver the following outcomes and outputs: 11 participants from the Community Hub Team will engage in fortnightly, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
£95,000 25/07/2019
24
£95,000 over two further and final years £47,000; £48,000) towards the salary costs of the Adult Learning Manager and Adult Learning tutor for an ESOL programme for Beginners to Level 2.
Tudor Trust - Grant to ClementJames Centre
£50,000 05/02/2019
12
towards the redevelopment and expansion of their community centre in North Kensington, London
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The ClementJames Centre
£3,722 19/11/2018
We want to provide disadvantaged, unemployed local residents with free support to raise their aspirations and develop skills to secure work.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
£75,000 30/11/2017
36
The ClementJames Centre is applying to continue and expand its IntoWork programme, enabling over 1100 young people and adults who are long-term unemployed improve their employability, skills and ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St Clement & St James Community Development Project
£72,214 14/06/2017
36
To provide academic support to children and young people living in situations of local deprivation in North Kensington. They will experience raised academic achievement, improved confidence and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
£94,500 24/05/2016
36
£94,500 over three years (£30,000; £31,500; £33,000) towards the salary of the full-time Adult Learning Manager and a contribution to project on-costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - The ClementJames Centre- Community Hub Studio
£10,000 03/02/2016
12
The group will use the funding to build a studio in their community garden to meet the demand of their expanded and developed learning programmes for users. This will provide a new community hub ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
£75,000 04/02/2015
36
The ClementJames Centre is applying to continue and expand its IntoWork programme, enabling over 1100 young people and adults who are long-term unemployed improve their employability, skills and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The ClementJames Centre
£86,800 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' salary of the Team Leader of the 'IntoWork' programme in London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
£40,000 29/06/2011
the salary costs of the Communicate Manager, Lead Communicate Tutor and Communicate Tutor
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-64
  • RICHARD RYAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director Of Fixed Income
  • SYMONE WILLIAMS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Relationship Manager Arts Council England
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/03/1992, number: 1009253
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/01/1992, number: 02677427
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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; AR16: 24 days late,
Main office

St. Clement & St. James Community
Development Pr
95 Sirdar Road
LONDON
W114EQ

Objectives

(A)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS AND IN PARTICULAR OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITHIN THE PARISH OF ST. CLEMENTS NOTTINGDALE ST. JAMES NORLANDS OR ANY UNITED PARISH COMPRISING ST. CLEMENTS NOTTINGDALE ST. JAMES NORLANDS AND ANY OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH ASSOCIATED WITH OR ADDED TO THEM (B)TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG THE INHABITANTS AND IN PARTICULAR AMONG THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITHIN THE PARISH (C)TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY WITHIN THE PARISH (D)TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH AND IN PARTICULAR OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE

Defined Area of Benefit:

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Data Sources

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