Overall GiG Score: 26 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

FRG LTD 

Family Rights Group's goal is to enable children to be raised safely and thrive within their family and community.
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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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 31 years

www.frg.org.uk

office@frg.org.uk

02079232628

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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£1,795£1,724£71£6£731£4773.33640
31/03/22£1,414£1,509£-95£0£659£5674.5260
31/03/21£2,796£2,563£233£4£755£5832.7320
31/03/20*£1,756£1,659£97£37£526£3792.7230
31/03/19£1,641£1,570£71£46£429£2421.92720
31/03/18£1,418£1,271£148£45£358£2182.1290
31/03/17£902£922£-21£48£210£1882.4230
31/03/16£924£987£-62£55£230£1521.9230
31/03/15£982£955£27£110£293£2202.8130
31/03/14£944£1,020£-76£96£266£2623.1220
31/03/13£1,001£1,078£-77£98£342£3393.8230
31/03/12£1,211£1,194£17£105£418£4174.2240
31/03/11£1,006£1,046£-40£237£401£4004.6240
31/03/10£1,069£913£156£177£455£3995.2160
31/03/09£1,076£1,040£36£228£299£2993.5160
31/03/08£752£716£36£178£263£2634.4190
31/03/07*£687£647£40£154£227£2033.8170
31/03/06*£593£558£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£603£632£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£663£598£65£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 30%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 65%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 36 employees
  • 40 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Department for Education£1,611,976
The Legal Education Foundation£582,953
National Lottery Community Fund£499,835
Esmee Fairbairn£294,345
Dulverton Trust£156,750
Lankelly Chase Foundation£149,956
John Ellerman Foundation£146,907
Access to Justice Foundation£112,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifelong Links for children and young people in care
£499,835 17/08/2023
The funding will be used to support children and young people in the care system to build positive lasting relationships by recruiting Lifelong Links coordinators who uses a range of tools to find ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to FRG Ltd
£20,000 06/03/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to FRG Ltd
£14,345 20/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Dulverton Trust - Supporting Children And Families In Need - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022
£1,750 08/02/2023
Supporting Children And Families In Need - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to FRG
£500 30/11/2022
Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in London
Access to Justice Foundation - Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS)
£112,500 13/09/2022
Help Accessing Legal Support (HALS) is a programme of The Access to Justice Foundation with the Ministry of Justice. We are working with organisations to sustain and improve access to early social ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to FRG
£5,000 14/07/2022
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in London
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2022
£104,000 15/06/2022
A grant to Family Rights Group to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
Dulverton Trust - Lifelong Links
£120,000 08/06/2022
Lifelong Links
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to FRG Ltd
£200,000 19/01/2022
24
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation challenging structural inequality in the child welfare and family justice system, helping to build a society where children can live safely and ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Main Grant
£35,000 08/12/2021
to support specified work
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Family Rights Group
£105,000 30/11/2021
36
To support the charity's core costs and aims of building lifelong support networks for children in the care system, championing kinship carers and providing advice to parents whose children are in ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - Best practice in keeping children safely in their families and averting care proceedings
£380,000 07/07/2021
Developing and delivering training to implement recommendations from the Care Crisis Review Public Law Working Group, aimed at the judiciary, magistrates, child welfare leaders, practitioners and ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Family Rights Group/FRG Ltd
£149,956 19/05/2021
Family Rights Group/FRG Ltd
Home Office - Covid-19 Support for Domestic Abuse Charities
£39,940 07/08/2020
Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
Department for Education - Supporting Early Years Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Children
£80,000 06/08/2020
Organisations who provide advice and support to people who are pushed into crisis
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Family Rights Group
£5,000 23/06/2020
Providing staff with equipment to allow them to work from home safely and with appropriate confidentiality for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis.
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Family Rights Group
£60,000 08/06/2020
36
Towards the roll out of a new approach that aims to substantively help build lasting support networks for children in care.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Family Rights Group
£60,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Department for Education - Children's Social Care (CSC) Innovation Programme
£1,531,976 01/04/2020
Creating a culture of innovation is at the heart of the department's vision for children's social care, and crucial to the delivery of our reforms in three areas: People and Leadership, Practice and ....more
Home Office - FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP
£10,900 01/04/2020
The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual ....more
Home Office - FAMILY RIGHTS GROUP
£39,940 01/04/2020
This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through ....more
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2020
£98,953 13/03/2020
A grant to Family Rights Group to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Family Rights Group
£30,000 03/03/2020
To enable FRG to increase its influence on policy and practice in relation to voluntary arrangements of children in care under s.20 Children Act 1989
Dulverton Trust - Lifelong Links
£35,000 12/02/2020
Lifelong Links
John Ellerman Foundation - towards salary of the Principal Legal Adviser
£146,907 23/05/2019
36
Towards the core costs of their work with children at risk or in the care system, and their families
The Segelman Trust - Grant to Family Rights Group
£105,000 25/09/2018
36
To support the charity's core costs and aims of building lifelong support networks for children in the care system, championing kinship carers and providing advice to parents whose children are in ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Family Rights Group
£167,400 28/02/2018
36
Towards core costs to support an alliance of organisations working to improve support for kinship carers through strategic work.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Family Rights Group
£499,895 18/12/2017
60
Towards salary and associated project costs to pilot a new service for developing life-long, supportive networks for children and young people who are care experienced.
Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
£79,850 26/10/2017
Addressing the 'care-cases crisis', a sector-led review
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Your Family, Your Voice alliance
£400,000 11/09/2017
36
To continue support and development of the 'Your Family, Your Voice' alliance - a mixed alliance of families who have had contact with the child protection system and professionals working in the ....more
Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
£5,000 04/04/2017
Addressing the 'care cases crisis': a sector-led review - scoping phase
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Family Rights Group
£60,000 18/04/2016
12
Towards scoping work for a large programme aimed at increasing the support networks of children and young people living in care.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Family Rights Group
£60,000 18/12/2014
24
over two years towards the development of tailored on-line resources and additional advocacy support for young parents in England and Wales whose children are at risk of being taken into care
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Family Rights Group
£30,000 18/08/2014
Towards a better debate in public policy on family and friends care, creating an environment for political action and generating stories in the media to highlight Kinship Care Alliance’s key policy ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Family Rights Group
£340,600 06/05/2014
To build on the work started in the development phase of a new alliance of families involved with the social care system, provisionally titled the Struggling Families Alliance, to influence how ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Family Rights Group
£248,360 12/12/2013
Towards salary costs associated with raising awareness about the importance and needs of kinship carers and to improve the support offered to them, helping to improve outcomes for looked-after ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Family Rights Group
£300,000 30/09/2010
36
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards core costs for work with families of looked after children.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-74
  • EMMA SMALE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Research Associate
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/12/1992, number: 1015665
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/04/1992, number: 02702928
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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; AR20: 4 days late, AR07: 6 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 2 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Family Rights Group
101 Pentonville Road
LONDON
N1 9LG

Objectives

TO RELIEVE FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WHO ARE IN NEED OR DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ENGLAND AND WALES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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