Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 11

Fundraising costs high: -3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 14

THE SPRINGBOARD CHARITY

The advancement in life and education of young people under 25 through programmes to assist them to obtain work.To relieve unemployment for the public benefit through programmes to unemployed persons seeking employment in travel, tourism, leisure and hospitality.The relief of poverty caused by disability, social or economic circumstances, through provision of advice, training and support.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

Established: 29 years

www.springboard.uk.net

finance@springboarduk.org.uk

02079214020

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£3,787	£3,497	£290	£688	£1,442	£1,105	3.8	65	2,000
31/03/22		£3,724	£3,227	£497	£515	£1,151	£856	3.2	62	2
31/03/21		£2,711	£2,170	£542	£611	£654	£557	3.1	44	2
31/03/20		£2,833	£3,195	£-362	£932	£113	£113	0.4	55	2
31/03/19	*	£3,152	£3,035	£116	£933	£475	£236	0.9	52	5
31/03/18		£3,029	£3,118	£-89	£1,246	£359	£309	1.2	56	0
31/03/17		£3,024	£3,080	£-56	£1,180	£448	£448	1.7	56	0
31/03/16		£3,198	£3,156	£43	£1,401	£544	£544	2.1	53	0
31/03/15		£3,096	£2,819	£278	£923	£502	£473	2	48	0
31/03/14	*	£2,596	£2,571	£25	£835	£224	£224	1	44	0
31/03/13	*	£2,065	£2,006	£59	£730	£199	£199	1.2	40	0
31/03/12	*	£1,935	£1,817	£118	£701	£141	£141	0.9	38	0
31/03/11	*	£1,834	£1,762	£72	£649	£23	£23	0.2	42	0
31/03/10		£1,601	£1,673	£-71	£623	£-49	£-49	-0.4	38	0
31/03/09		£1,425	£1,500	£-74	£762	£22	£22	0.2	35	0
31/03/08		£1,650	£1,571	£79	£796	£96	£96	0.7	35	0
31/03/07	*	£1,659	£1,643	£16	£737	£18	£18	0.1	36	0
31/03/06	*	£1,877	£1,877	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£1,988	£1,989	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£1,729	£1,738	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 25.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 19.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 37%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 77%
Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

65 employees
2,000 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

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation	£500,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£112,278
Garfield Weston Foundation	£100,000
Charles Hayward Foundation	£21,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Springboard Charity
£21,000	25/03/2022	Galvin's Chance - upskilling employment programme
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Springboard Charity
£500,000	02/12/2021	A special Anniversary Grant to support young and/or unemployed individuals into the hospitality, leisure and tourism (HLT) industry in UK areas of high deprivation.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000	29/10/2021	Springboard to 2022
National Lottery Community Fund - Compass Group Gateway to Employment
£9,752	14/05/2021	The funding will be used to improve employability and wellbeing courses and create a peer mentoring scheme for young care leavers. The project aims to improve employability skills and increase ....more The funding will be used to improve employability and wellbeing courses and create a peer mentoring scheme for young care leavers. The project aims to improve employability skills and increase confidence and resilience.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Springboard's Digital Employability Academy - Wales
£92,621	31/07/2020 12	The Springboard Charity will provide a digital employability academy for people working in the hospitality leisure and tourism industry. Support will take the form of professional mentoring ....more The Springboard Charity will provide a digital employability academy for people working in the hospitality leisure and tourism industry. Support will take the form of professional mentoring group/peer support a digital platform to support transferrable skills plus sustained into-work support. When restrictions are lifted the project will deliver face to face. £92621 over one year will fund staff marketing monitoring and evaluation translation and overheads. Bydd Springboard Charity yn darparu academi cyflogadwyedd digidol i bobl sy'n gweithio yn y diwydiant lletygarwch hamdden a thwristiaeth. Bydd y gefnogaeth ar ffurf mentora proffesiynol cefnogaeth grp/gan gymheiriaid llwyfan ddigidol i gefnogi sgiliau trosglwyddadwy a chefnogaeth barhaus i gyrchu gwaith. Pan godir y cyfyngiadau bydd y prosiect yn cyflwyno wyneb wrth wyneb. Bydd £92621 dros flwyddyn yn ariannu staff marchnata monitro a gwerthuso cyfieithu a chostau cyffredinol.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award - COVID19 response
£50,000	29/05/2020	Digital Hospitality Employability Academy
Heathrow Community Trust - Employability support for young people during lockdown.
£5,000	08/05/2020 6	HCT funding would be put directly to helping vulnerable beneficiaries, living within the HCT focus boroughs, to access the new Springboard Digital Hospitality Employability Academy. The Academy has ....more HCT funding would be put directly to helping vulnerable beneficiaries, living within the HCT focus boroughs, to access the new Springboard Digital Hospitality Employability Academy. The Academy has been created in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, digitalising all of our programme resources and enabling a delivery approach which is fully remote but still offers high levels of employability skills training and emotional support
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Digital Skills Hub
£9,905	28/10/2019 12	Community Digital Skills Hub
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	07/03/2019	KickStart 2019
Impetus PEF -
£90,000	01/07/2018
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	09/10/2017	KickStart 2018/2020
Impetus PEF -
£10,000	01/07/2017
Walcot Foundation - Step Up: Career progression in hospitality
£80,000	24/07/2015 24	Step Up: Career progression in hospitality
Walcot Foundation - Into Work in Lambeth
£60,000	25/03/2015 36	Into Work in Lambeth
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Springboard Charity
£29,600	28/08/2013	Springboard provides advice, training and support to help young people to gain employment in the travel, tourism, hospitality and leisure industries. Working Chance supports young people at risk of ....more Springboard provides advice, training and support to help young people to gain employment in the travel, tourism, hospitality and leisure industries. Working Chance supports young people at risk of homelessness to train and gain sustainable employment
National Lottery Community Fund - face2face
£575,684	15/05/2013 48	This project will benefit young people aged 16 to 24 from the Highlands who have experienced care and are experiencing multiple barriers to employment, including involvement with the criminal justice ....more This project will benefit young people aged 16 to 24 from the Highlands who have experienced care and are experiencing multiple barriers to employment, including involvement with the criminal justice system. Delivered in partnership with Barnardo's the project will provide one to one support to provide employability interventions and job opportunities to these young people.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-70

AISLING ZARRAGA Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Solicitor

ALASTAIR STOREY OBE (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Businessman, Other trusteeships: THE NICHOLLS SPINAL INJURY FOUNDATION, WSH FOUNDATION, THE GOLD SERVICE FOUNDATION,

ALEXANDER WILSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Front Office Manager

ALLISTER JOHN RICHARDS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer

ANDREW JOHN KEMP Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Food Wholesaler

GARETH JONATHAN SHARPE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Cfo

JENNIFER EARLAND Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Talent Acquisition

KAY HARRIMAN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Hr Director

KATHERINE NICHOLLS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Ceo, Ukhospitality

MICHAEL JOHN TAYLOR Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Deputy Master Of The Household

SEAN HALEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/03/1995, number: 1045411
Registered at Companies House on 10/03/1995, number: 03031621

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
Investment
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR19: 35 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR13: 117 days late, AR12: 14 days late, AR11: 4 days late, AR07: 240 days late, AR06: 30 days late, AR05: 126 days late, AR04: 90 days late,

Main office

Coopers' Hall
13 Devonshire Square
LONDON
EC2M 4TH

Objectives

(I) THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE AND EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, TRAINING AND SKILLS COURSES THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO OBTAIN WORK EXPERIENCE AND ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP SOCIAL SKILLS TO ASSIST THEM TO OBTAIN WORK;(II) TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE SEEKING EMPLOYMENT IN THE FIELDS OF TRAVEL, TOURISM, LEISURE AND HOSPITALITY;(III) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY CAUSED BY DISABILITY, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, TRAINING, SKILLS COURSES AND SUPPORT

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