Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +1

LEARNING TO WORK (SOUTH EAST) LIMITED 

The company brokers opportunities between schools and businesses to provide more than 5,000 work experience placements, enterprise challenges & events, primary STEM projects, alternative curriculum programmes and professional development placements for teachers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 29 years

www.learningtowork.org.uk

info@learningtowork.org.uk

01753376264

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UN SDGs
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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£487£471£16n/an/an/an/an/a1,143
31/03/22£458£452£6n/an/an/an/an/a411
31/03/21£427£447£-20n/an/an/an/an/a542
31/03/20£566£721£-155£0£98£981.6276,636
31/03/19£641£633£8£0£253£2534.8276,048
31/03/18£611£569£41£1£245£2455.2180
31/03/17£545£502£43£6£204£2044.9160
31/03/16£501£432£68£0£161£1614.5140
31/03/15£463£472£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£492£501£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13?£306£407£-101£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/12£545£569£-24£2£211£2114.5220
31/07/11£587£653£-67£2£235£2354.3270
31/07/10£703£707£-4£1£302£3025.1190
31/07/09£708£710£-2£1£306£3065.2290
31/07/08*£916£954£-38£6£307£3073.9190
31/07/07£680£560£120£4£345£3457.4190
31/07/06?£467£450£17£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£366£319£47£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£318£336£-18£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 17%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 1,143 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Slough, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Blagrave Trust - Inspire mentoring programme
£45,000 20/11/2018
Inspire mentoring programme

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-74
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/10/1994, number: 1041403
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/01/1994, number: 02888047
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; AR08: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from CENTRAL BERKSHIRE EDUCATION BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP on 15/12/2020
Main office

176 Buckingham Avenue
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 4RD

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITHIN WINDSOR, SLOUGH AND MAIDENHEAD AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE IN PARTICULAR IN SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS MATTERS

Defined Area of Benefit:

WINDSOR, SLOUGH AND MAIDENHEAD AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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