Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

STREETWISE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT 

Passionate about young people, supporting their rights and making a difference in their lives. Providing advice, support, counselling & sexual health services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 28 years

www.streetwisenorth.org.uk

admin@streetwisenorth.org.uk

01912305533

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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£1,128£1,120£8£0£340£28033320
31/03/22£900£826£74£0£332£2583.72620
31/03/21£810£791£19£0£258£1602.41620
31/03/20£848£787£60£0£239£1582.4262
31/03/19£629£630£-1£0£178£851.6221
31/03/18£526£631£-105£0£179£1643.1190
31/03/17£648£569£79£1£284£1082.3240
31/03/16£456£491£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£491£478£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£429£418£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£445£477£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£427£401£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£504£495£9£5£221£2165.2260
31/03/10*£435£427£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£429£428£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£442£419£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£323£428£-106£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£508£353£155£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£300£330£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£275£251£24£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 42%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 33 employees
  • 20 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
BBC Children in Need£101,995
The Ballinger Charitable Trust£75,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£55,000
DCMS£34,817
Comic Relief£25,614
National Lottery Community Fund£14,232
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH - Streetwise Summer Activity Drop-ins
£7,537 14/07/2023
The funding will be used to deliver weekly drop in provision for young people during the summer holidays to include a range of arts crafts cooing dance music games and trips along with informal ....more
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£75,000 25/11/2022
Unrestricted funding.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 11/03/2022
Streetwise Young People's Project - Core Costs
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Focussing on employability for young adults in Newcastle most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
£5,000 15/04/2021
Focussing on employability for young adults in Newcastle most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£5,000 15/04/2021
Focussing on employability for young adults in Newcastle most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - the organisations charitable activities supporting young people in Tyne & Wear
£2,000 04/03/2021
the organisations charitable activities supporting young people in Tyne & Wear
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Streetwise
£101,995 20/12/2020
This project will provide counselling, therapeutic group work and wellbeing sessions to young people in Newcastle, supporting them to feel empowered, emotionally well and feel safe.
Comic Relief - Streetwise Recovery Funding
£25,614 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£20,972 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
CAF - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£2,000 12/05/2020
Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project to support the organisation through COVID19
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 07/05/2020
Streetwise Mental Health & Well Being Support
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£9,230 28/02/2020
Streetwise Young People's Project
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£4,615 28/02/2020
Streetwise Young Peoples Project. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£9,800 04/02/2020
purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Purchasing six replacement computers for Newcastle based youth charity.
£4,002 04/11/2019
Purchasing six replacement computers for Newcastle based youth charity.
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£5,144 16/10/2019
6
Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Streetwise Co-Cultural Events
£6,695 09/05/2019
12
The funding will provide social community trips and activities for at-risk young people from different backgrounds, with the aim of improving community cohesion, individual aspirations and social ....more
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£44,298 17/04/2019
24
The #iwill Take Action grant will enable Youthwise to expand and develop the recently launched M Card allowing young women access to free sanitary products and advice on periods. Youthwise will ....more
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£75,000 01/03/2019
36
Unrestricted funding.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - West End Urban Arts Project
£2,600 27/02/2019
West End Urban Arts Project
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Get Shirty a young people business venture exploring how to design and sell limited edition, positive issue-based campaigning t-shirts
£4,959 14/12/2018
Get Shirty a young people business venture exploring how to design and sell limited edition, positive issue-based campaigning t-shirts
Comic Relief - Safe Mate - Emotional Wellbeing Support for BAME Young Men
£137,220 28/03/2018
36
Young men from BAME backgrounds in Newcastle can experience a range of mental health issues and face barriers to accessing appropriate services. Streetwise will recruit BAME young men representative ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 05/03/2018
Streetwise Emotional Wellbeing Project
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£85,241 06/08/2017
36
This project will provide counselling, therapeutic group work and wellbeing sessions to young people in Newcastle.
National Lottery Community Fund - SKINT? Advice4Life
£281,956 07/09/2016
36
The aim of this new project is to support young people aged 16 to 25 from across Tyne and Wear through advice and advocacy on benefits, debt and money management, employment and employability, ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£29,725 27/07/2015
12
Towards the Man-Up project working with boys and young adults aged 13-19 who are in/or have the potential to be in unhealthy or abusive relationships.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Streetwise Young People's Project
£29,234 17/12/2013
Towards a programme to educate and support 13-19 year-old boys and young men who are at risk of or are in unhealthy and abusive relationships.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-62
  • DR JANIS SMITH Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
  • ED BLAZEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director - Designer
  • TALHATOU DIALLO Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Senior Finance Transformation Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/09/1996, number: 1058360
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/09/1996, number: 03244499
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; AR10: 8 days late, AR09: 19 days late, AR07: 139 days late, AR06: 16 days late, AR04: 75 days late,
Main office

UNIT 3 BLACKFRIARS COURT
DISPENSARY LANE
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE1 4XB

Objectives

1A)TO PRESERVE AND PROVIDE FOR THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 11-25 YEARS BY PROVIDING ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUALITY, DISABILITY, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE; B)TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE,OR TO CO-OPERATE WITH ANY LOCAL STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY A COMPANY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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