Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6

GRIT: BREAKTHROUGH PROGRAMMES 

We all belong and can contribute. That is our vision here at Grit. That’s why we’ve spent twenty-five years providing opportunities for people to break through limitations, enabling them to lead flourishing lives and build connected communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 29 years

www.grit.org.uk

jon@grit.org.uk

01763241120

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
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
30/06/23£834£917£-83£0£363£3634.712160
30/06/22£861£728£133£0£445£4066.710160
30/06/21£849£639£210£0£313£2795.210221
30/06/20£925£922£3£0£103£600.813175
30/06/19£1,044£1,062£-18£15£100£440.514500
30/06/18£1,283£1,239£44£15£118£390.4130
30/06/17£995£1,028£-33£14£74£270.3120
30/06/16£937£1,057£-121£80£107£891120
30/06/15£977£1,106£-129£73£228£1321.4120
30/06/14£1,169£1,108£61£48£357£1321.4120
30/06/13£935£965£-30£33£297£1932.4110
30/06/12£1,206£1,176£30£29£326£2342.4110
30/06/11£1,840£1,715£126£25£296£2151.5180
30/06/10£2,237£2,211£26£25£170£1700.9230
30/06/09£1,474£1,462£12£35£144£1441.2170
30/06/08£1,424£1,348£76£18£132£1321.2150
30/06/07£1,345£1,242£103£21£57£570.6150
30/06/06£856£925£-69£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£1,040£928£112£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£880£906£-26£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 12 employees
  • 160 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, 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
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£25,000
City Bridge Trust£13,948
DCMS£9,135
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Grit
£25,000 27/11/2020
East London Community Programme
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£6,271 07/07/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Grit Breakthrough Programmes
£2,864 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund staffing costs to enable the organisation to adapt it's monitoring tools to match their service now being delivered on-line because of COVID-19, providing support to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Grit: Breakthrough Programmes
£13,948 05/06/2020
£13,948 towards 3 months of expenditure on costs as outlined in your application.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,864 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Grit
£150,000 12/06/2019
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing support to disadvantaged young people in East London
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2018
£12,500 04/12/2018
An innovative & much needed 'Grit' project for young people in East London experiencing disadvantage or in challenging circumstances. An exciting cross-sector consortium, including local ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 05/06/2018
East London Community Transformation Programme
The Funding Network - Creating transformation in Wembley
£8,152 25/01/2018
Working with Ark Elvin Academy and utilising the power of the community to provide a new solution to positively transform the lives of excluded young people in Wembley.
Dulverton Trust - Newhaven Fusion: community transformation programme
£22,560 24/10/2017
Newhaven Fusion: community transformation programme
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Grit
£10,000 01/03/2017
purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Royston
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth at Risk
£60,000 27/02/2017
24
Youth at Risk is a national charity working to create lasting transformation for young people and the adults and communities around them through a rigorous, strengths-based coaching model. Funding ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Southend Choices
£12,500 21/02/2017
23
Towards an intensive personal development programme for at risk young people in Southend over 1 year
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Grit
£4,000 05/10/2016
11
To help run personal development workshops in Southend for young people who have experienced, or are at risk of child sexual exploitation
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Youth At Risk
£80,000 11/09/2014
24
towards two years' continuation funding of a personal development and coaching project for homeless young people in Newhaven
Dulverton Trust - Transforming Frontline Staff
£50,000 11/06/2014
Transforming Frontline Staff
Walcot Foundation - 'Aspire' Project
£4,683 06/12/2013
'Aspire' Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Activate the Estate!
£143,110 01/07/2013
24
This is a new project by led by Youth At Risk in partnership with Southend Borough Council which aims to break the cycle of antisocial behaviour, isolation and marginalisation of girls in and around ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Grit: breakthrough programmes
£120,000 05/06/2013
Towards an intensive personal development programme for looked-after children and care leavers in Suffolk.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Aspire
£77,132 07/05/2013
Two-year development and wider piloting of a programme of school-based personal development and coaching, including pupil-led projects supported by adult volunteers, for 180 targeted students in ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Red House Environmental Allotment Project (REAP)
£144,682 05/06/2012
36
This new project will deliver healthy eating and nutritional benefits through the involvement of isolated adults in Sunderland in maintaining allotments and in attending healthy cooking classes. It ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 24-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/11/1994, number: 1041855
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/05/1994, number: 02930456
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints 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; all on time
Main office

THE OLD WAREHOUSE
31 UPPER KING STREET
ROYSTON
HERTS
SG8 9AZ

Objectives

I)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 21 WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES OR WHOSE CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CREATED TENDENCIES TO COMMIT OR A POSSIBILITY OF THEIR CONVIVTION OF SUCH OFFENCES WITH THE INTENTION THAT SUCH PEOPLE MAY BE ASSISTED TO GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND MAY BE BETTER EQUIPPED TO BECOME USEFUL AND RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY II)TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF DRUG ABUSE VIOLENCE CRIME ILLITERACY POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT AFFECTING YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL PRODUCTS OF SUCH RESEARCH III)TO PROVIDE COMFORT CARE AND COUNSELLING FOR THE PUBLIC WITH SPECIAL REFERNCE TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY ANY OF THE MATTERS TO WHICH THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE DIRECTED IV)TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITY WHICH MAY HELP TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY ANY OF THE MATTERS TO WHICH THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE DIRECTED

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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