Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

HEADLINERS (UK) 

Provides learning and development through journalism and active citizenship activities for vulnerable children and young people aged 8-25 year olds to have a voice. Our work enables and empowers the most vulnerable and disadvantaged and young people to share their views, opinions and enable their voices to be heard.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

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

www.headliners.org

enquiries@headliners.org

0207 8325841

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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*£457£501£-44n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/22£494£513£-19n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£500£475£25n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/20£614£539£75£0£198£741.71015
31/03/19£515£506£9£0£124£711.770
31/03/18£508£482£26£0£115£82280
31/03/17£524£524£0£0£89£360.880
31/03/16£588£620£-32£12£88£390.8100
31/03/15£654£632£22£16£120£911.7100
31/03/14£710£647£64£21£99£651.2110
31/03/13£474£507£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£480£613£-133£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£959£927£32£5£148£190.2220
31/03/10£1,110£1,162£-52£7£116£1031.1280
31/03/09£916£905£10£9£168£520.7200
31/03/08£917£837£80£15£167£380.6180
31/03/07*£741£733£8£19£86£160.3150
31/03/06£527£687£-160£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£840£722£118£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£566£524£42£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 2 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 Heritage Fund£99,200
National Lottery Community Fund£50,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£10,461
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£7,750
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Headliners UK
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Headliners (UK)
£5,000 17/03/2022
A photography project to engage young people from migrant communities across Tyne and Wear
National Lottery Community Fund - London's Young Platinum Green Champions
£50,000 03/03/2022
The funding will help create ‘London's Young Platinum Green Champions’ which will support young people aged 11 to 25 to access green spaces and nature. The young people will celebrate their ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Headliners (UK)
£750 20/01/2022
Helping young people in Newcastle and South Tyneside to address feelings of anxiety and suicide
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Headliners (UK)
£2,000 21/10/2021
Supporting young people transitioning out of care, from Tyne & Wear, to improve their employability skills
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Headliners (UK) - 18/08/21
£1,000 07/09/2021
Safe Spaces Young Reports ClubHubs.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Headliners UK
£8,211 23/07/2020
Grant to Headliners UK meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Headliners UK
£99,200 28/08/2019
Tynesiders
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Headliners UK
£99,961 27/03/2019
36
The charity supports care leavers move towards independence by building their confidence and resilience enabling them to make positive choices. The Digital Transitions programme includes 1-1 ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Together We Can, Together We Will
£484,909 21/05/2018
35
The Together We Can, Together We Will project works with young people in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry who are socially isolated, on the autistic spectrum, or are leaving care or living in supported ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Headliners UK
£14,900 17/05/2017
12
Charity supports young people leaving care
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Headliners UK
£40,600 03/02/2016
East End Beats
National Lottery Community Fund - Care Leaders
£298,557 15/08/2012
36
Serving several London Boroughs and venues in Tyne and Wear, this project aims to support young people in or leaving care to become young leaders in their community and positive role models for their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Voices for Change
£499,610 22/06/2012
60
The project will use the grant to run the Voices for Change project which will work with young people in the Limavady, Strabane, L/Derry & Belfast areas who are not involved in education or ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-71
  • ESHE NELSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Business Reporter
  • JON HUDSON (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Public Affairs Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/01/1995, number: 1043300
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/10/1994, number: 02976335
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • 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; AR23: 51 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

100 Howard Street
NORTH SHIELDS
Tyne And Wear
NE30 1NA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ALL CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS (INCLUDING PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM INNER CITY AREAS OR AT A SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE) AND TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPACITIES SO THAT SUCH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF REPORTING, JOURNALISM, RADIO, TELEVISION AND OTHERWISE IN CONNECTION WITH WRITTEN OR BROADCAST MEDIA

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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