Finance Score: -7

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 5

PEOPLE FIRST (SELF ADVOCACY)

People First is an organisation run by and for people with learning difficulties to raise awareness of and campaign for the rights of people with learning difficulties and to support self advocacy groups across the country.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 28 years

www.peoplefirstltd.com

andrew.director@peoplefirstltd.com

02072745484

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£173	£232	£-59	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£260	£249	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/21		£280	£243	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20	*	£148	£194	£-46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19	*	£143	£228	£-85	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18		£163	£200	£-37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£359	£187	£172	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£91	£108	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£119	£130	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£147	£166	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£166	£142	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£171	£233	£-61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£451	£479	£-27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£436	£468	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£454	£352	£102	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£288	£274	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£365	£360	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£328	£334	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£518	£496	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£564	£597	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

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

Esmee Fairbairn	£155,000
Disability Action	£16,230
Trust for London	£9,600
The Grocers' Charity	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People First (Self Advocacy)
£5,000	20/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - People First (Self Advocacy)
£5,000	17/11/2020	Towards project costs to empower people with learning disabilities, people who experience a high level of discrimination, the grant helped 30 people in Portsmouth set up a self-advocacy group.
Disability Action - NET Coronavirus Appeal Emergency Fund for Disabled People Organisations UK-wide
£16,230	01/11/2020	The project will involve expanding online peer support meetings, strengthening internal capacity
Trust for London - People First (Self Advocacy)
£9,600	19/08/2020 6	The funding is for communicating with and supporting self-advocacy organisations across London to find out how they're working with their members, what issues they've experienced during Covid-19, and ....more The funding is for communicating with and supporting self-advocacy organisations across London to find out how they're working with their members, what issues they've experienced during Covid-19, and what has and hasn't worked. We will bring them together using alternative methods of communicating and organising.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People First (Self Advocacy)
£150,000	17/06/2020 36	Towards core unrestricted costs to enable People First to further develop its policy and campaigning work and strengthen the organsation
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to People First (Self Advocacy)
£60,000	07/03/2016 36	Towards core costs to enable the organisation to continue to influence outcomes for people with learning disabilities through the support of self advocacy and representation at local and national ....more Towards core costs to enable the organisation to continue to influence outcomes for people with learning disabilities through the support of self advocacy and representation at local and national level.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-74

BELLA FRANCESCA EDWARDS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Unemployed

CHRISTINE SPOONER (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Volunteer, Other trusteeship: NORTHFIELD ARTS FORUM,

JOHN PAUL ELLIFFE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Unemployed

KATE BRACKLEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Volunteer

MICHAEL BRIAN BROOKSTEIN Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Unemployed

MARIE EMMA CLAIRE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Unemployed

KWEKU ASWIN WILSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: People First Project Worker Waltham Forest

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/08/1996, number: 1057354
Registered at Companies House on 06/12/1995, number: 03134827

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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; AR20: 54 days late, AR19: 35 days late, AR16: 25 days late, AR07: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 65 days late,

Main office

PEOPLE FIRST
336 BRIXTON rOAD
LONDON
SW97AA

Objectives

(A) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN SELF-ADVOCACY AND ALL RELATED AREAS (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL, PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE (C) TO CARRY OUT, PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF SUCH NEEDS AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

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