Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

MAYDAY TRUST 

Mayday Trust provides The PTS Response, person-led, transitional and strengths-based coaching. Returning control to people to shape their own futures. We developed strengths-based, person-led coaching to people experiencing tough times like homelessness or leaving care. We use the learning and values of this approach to help organisations and local area implement practical strengths-based working
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 30 years

www.maydaytrust.org.uk

connect@platfform.org

01865670028

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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£781£1,208£-427£41£1,847£1,42814.2200
31/03/22£942£1,181£-238£1£2,274£1,65616.8170
31/03/21£2,748£3,175£-427£0£2,482£1,8557310
31/03/20£3,832£3,514£318£4£2,755£2,1317.3400
31/03/19£3,050£3,784£-734£0£2,497£2,4977.9433
31/03/18£2,510£3,078£-567£21£3,243£3,23812.6380
31/03/17£3,008£3,715£-707£33£3,816£3,81612.3560
31/03/16£4,012£4,265£-253£58£4,327£4,25212770
31/03/15£4,018£4,051£-33£78£4,142£4,08612.1710
31/03/14£3,724£3,660£64£72£3,978£3,96813660
31/03/13£3,672£3,586£85£22£3,657£3,61312.1720
31/03/12£3,514£3,102£412£16£3,434£3,39613.1810
31/03/11£3,083£2,809£275£15£2,856£2,82112.1790
31/03/10*£3,024£2,693£331£14£2,494£2,46111730
31/03/09£2,743£2,511£233£18£1,996£1,9239.2740
31/03/08£2,802£3,103£-301£34£2,015£1,8687.2700
31/03/07£2,710£2,786£-75£-11£2,253£2,0238.7740
31/03/06£2,507£2,365£142£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£2,221£2,030£191£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£2,079£1,875£204£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 16%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 77%
Reserves/Spending: 14.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.8
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of London, Northamptonshire,
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

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£2,181,749
Lankelly Chase Foundation£320,000
Tudor Trust£77,000
The Rayne Foundation£60,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£60,000
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£58,000
Comic Relief£40,000
Esmee Fairbairn£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Tudor Trust - Grant to Mayday Trust (COVID19 Grant)
£50,000 15/04/2020
6
over six months as unrestricted funding to help secure Mayday's future during the COVID crisis, ensuring asset-based approaches to working with people who are homeless or inadequately housed continue ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - PTS - Transitions from homelessness
£158,545 24/03/2022
The funding will be used to cover the costs of employing an additional coach in Northamptonshire as a part of the organisation's service for people facing significant transitions in their lives. ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Mayday Trust
£20,000 04/06/2021
purchase IT equipment for a charity supporting individuals who are homeless in London
Tudor Trust - Grant to Mayday Trust
£25,000 25/03/2021
over six months towards exploratory work for a pilot of an alternative model providing support for people going through tough times, outside organisational settings
Tudor Trust - Grant to Mayday Trust
£2,000 04/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Comic Relief - Mayday Trust Recovery Funding
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Mayday Trust
£20,000 27/05/2020
Mayday Trust
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£58,000 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Mayday Trust
£25,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Mayday Trust
£60,000 21/01/2020
36
Towards the salary of a PTS Asset Coach to deliver a service for young people who experience poor mental health as a result of poverty, homelessness, leaving care and offending institutions.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Mayday Trust
£300,000 16/12/2019
24
Core funding to support the Alliance work and to traial a new commissioning model in Westminster
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth wisdoms inquiry
£60,000 09/12/2019
24
To support a Personal Transitions Coach to carry out an inquiry to capture the voices and experiences of young people going through difficult transitions and to identify the systemic barriers they ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Moving to a people-led system ? by the PTS UK Alliance
£2,023,204 05/07/2019
60
Moving to a people-led system ' by the PTS UK Alliance
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Core funding
£100,000 15/10/2018
12
To core fund Mayday Trust for a further year as they develop their innovation partnerships and the personal transitions service
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Mayday Trust
£150,000 18/12/2017
36
Towards the director of development and strategic partnerships, to expand a new approach to tackling entrenched homelessness issues.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£45,000 20/06/2017
Mayday Trust's Personal Transition Service 'Mayday Inspire' - Implementing a national learning programme
Comic Relief - Steps away from the street: Personal Transitions Service
£100,000 30/11/2016
36
Building on a successful pilot project in Oxford, Mayday Trust believe that to help people move on from homelessness, services should take a positive approach looking at people’s goals and ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Mayday Trust
£75,000 23/11/2016
36
over three years towards the Mayday Inspire project, promoting new ways of working with homeless people with complex needs at various locations around England
National Lottery Community Fund - Mayday Inspire
£30,000 22/01/2016
12
The funding will be used to develop a social impact bond that allows increasing numbers of people with complex needs across Northamptonshire who are experiencing homelessness to move on and thrive in ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Mayday Trust
£200,000 25/11/2015
24
Core funding to assist Mayday Trust over the next 2 years as they change their business and delivery models to build on what they learned through the asset-based Mayday Inspire proof of concept ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Mayday Trust
£55,000 09/07/2015
18
over 18 months towards the Mayday Inspire project, promoting new ways of working with people with complex needs at various locations around England
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Mayday Trust
£190,000 06/05/2014
To scale a statistically significant cohort of the Personal Asset Development model, in order to evidence that its strengths-based focus delivers improved long-term outcomes for individuals, enables ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-58
  • ROBERT ANDERSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Practice And Partnerships
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/03/1994, number: 1035524
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/03/1994, number: 02911222
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR10: 2 days late,
Main office

Platfform Head office
Beaufort House
Beaufort Road
Swansea
SA6 8JG

Objectives

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(1) TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED OR SUFFERING HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY (INCLUDING MENTAL AND LEARNING OR ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES), VULNERABILITY, SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY (INCLUDING ALCOHOL, DRUG OR SUBSTANCE MISUSE), HOMELESSNESS, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, HAVING SUFFERED A RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND COUNSELLING.(2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.(3) TO CARRY ON FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING HOUSES, HOSTELS, SUPPORTED HOUSING OR ANY OTHER HOUSING AND ASSOCIATED AMENITIES, SERVICES OR ASSISTANCE FOR VULNERABLE ADULTS AND OTHERS RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO ARE HOMELESS OR IN NEED OR SUFFERING HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY, ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS.(4) TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE “SOCIALLY EXCLUDED” MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE DISADVANTAGES AT 1.1(1)

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

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