Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

FINE CELL WORK 

Fine Cell Work is a charity which trains and pays prison inmates to do craft work in their cells. Our object is to rehabilitate them through productive, creative activity and the chance of saving a nestegg for release.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 29 years

www.finecellwork.co.uk

info@finecellwork.co.uk

02073730443

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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
31/12/22£1,142£1,169£-27£279£817£8088.315124
31/12/21£1,116£950£166£173£845£6017.61598
31/12/20£1,130£1,060£70£229£678£6667.51677
31/12/19£1,005£1,043£-38£121£608£5996.918253
31/12/18*£970£1,001£-31£160£646£5806.917278
31/12/17£1,024£915£109£194£679£2763.6150
31/12/16£760£701£59£133£555£2293.9130
31/12/15£625£611£14£142£461£1693.3120
31/12/14£730£661£69£158£451£1422.680
31/12/13£624£602£21£107£378£470.990
31/12/12*£710£591£119£362£356£561.180
31/12/11*£753£586£167£364£237£-6-0.180
31/12/10£499£542£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09*£472£443£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£390£375£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07?*£292£329£-38£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/06*£210£208£3£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/05£193£182£11£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/04£143£133£10£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 24.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 23.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 8.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 4.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 15 employees
  • 124 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£300,000
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
CHK Foundation£60,000
Rothschild Foundation£32,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£2,000 01/03/2023
Cost of living supplementary grant
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£20,000 26/07/2022
Support for women prisoners at HMPs Downview and Send to undertake needlework in prison and progress to post release training and employment scheme
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£30,000 18/07/2022
Expanding Fine Cell Work's needlework training programme at HMP Grendon over 2022-25
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£3,000 28/01/2022
51% of the project costs of a programme of formal training and employment in high-quality skilled needlework for prisoners and ex-offenders in Greater London.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£180,000 23/09/2021
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towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing work and employment support for prisoners across the UK.
National Lottery Community Fund - Workshops developing skills for ex-offenders: covid response
£9,530 04/06/2021
The funding will be used to run a series of employment workshops for ex-offenders. The project aims to improve people's skills and chances of finding work after leaving the justice system
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£50,000 15/02/2021
unrestricted, to further the Charitable Objects
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£10,000 14/10/2020
unrestricted, to further the Charitable Objects
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£3,900 01/10/2020
"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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Fine Cell Work
£8,166 23/07/2020
Grant to Fine Cell Work meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Ongoing support
£3,087 17/04/2020
Grant to Fine Cell Work
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£300,000 24/09/2019
Building the Social Enterprise
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£9,750 16/09/2019
£9,750 for Fine Cell Work's proposed programme of resilience support to deliver the following outcomes and outputs: an intervention that comprises an initial recap on FCW’s safeguarding policy; ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Fine Cell Work
£10,000 27/06/2019
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Fine Cell Work train prisoners in creative needlework, in order to develop self discipline and self esteem. They also guide prisoners towards training and support ....more
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£60,000 03/12/2018
36
Towards establishing and embedding a new programme supporting ex-offenders after release at a textiles workshop in Battersea.
Dulverton Trust - Professional crafts training for offenders
£30,000 25/10/2018
Professional crafts training for offenders
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£69,611 30/11/2017
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Fine Cell Work is seeking funding towards staffing costs of its new Open the Gate project providing training and employment support to people coming out of prison at its new Battersea Workshop
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£50,000 11/07/2017
refurbishment of hub for a charity which works with prisoners and ex-offenders in London
National Lottery Community Fund - OPEN THE GATES
£488,077 07/09/2016
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This new project will deliver increased employment and social skills for ex-prisoners living across Greater London to help them transition back into the community and reduce re-offending. Long-term ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£133,000 18/03/2016
36
£133,000 over 3 years (£36,000; £46,000; £51,000) towards the running and on-costs of Fine Cell Work’s Open the Gates programme supporting ex-prisoners towards employment and settled living.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£10,000 16/12/2015
12
providing education and training for employment of prison inmates. The grant will fund consultancy support for appropriate policies and procedures to be put in place, with related staff training in ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£90,000 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing training and paid work for offenders to gain needlework and sewing skills in prisons across England
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Fine Cell Work
£120,000 15/06/2011
Towards the salary of a business director to build sales of products made by trained prisoners.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 39-74
  • ANDREW MURRAY Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Certified Chartered Accountant
  • JULIAN DIMENT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Commercial Officer
  • KIT KEMP Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Designer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/09/1995, number: 1049095
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/08/1995, number: 03095356
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
19 returns made; AR18: 13 days late, AR12: 29 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR09: 7 days late, AR07: 12 days late, AR06: 41 days late,
Main office

Fine Cell Work
Unit 2-5
Berrytime Studios
190-192 Queenstown Road
LONDON
SW8 3NR

Objectives

FOR THE RELIEF, REHABILITATION, ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT OF PRISON INMATES AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST EX-INMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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