Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

NORWOOD RAVENSWOOD 

Norwood supports vulnerable children and their families, and young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism. Norwood transforms lives to enable thousands of people from diverse and mixed backgrounds, grow, learn and reach their full potential. Jewish communal values are at the heart of Norwood?s services and depth of Norwood?s work in the community is truly unique.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 27 years

www.norwood.org.uk

info@norwood.org.uk

02088098809

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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£27,713£31,315£-3,602£2,951£42,447£34,51913.2705240
31/03/22£28,756£30,776£-2,020£2,149£47,471£38,86715.2737450
31/03/21£33,066£32,187£879£2,280£45,784£36,86913.7808550
31/03/20£31,234£33,169£-1,935£3,199£42,262£33,56712.18731,500
31/03/19£31,931£30,732£1,199£3,467£44,945£35,62213.99191,500
31/03/18£31,551£31,153£398£3,608£43,448£34,68813.41,0260
31/03/17£31,534£34,138£-2,604£3,496£42,094£32,11911.31,0640
31/03/16£33,292£35,148£-1,856£3,096£41,586£30,16410.37240
31/03/15£35,828£34,125£1,703£3,786£44,719£32,48111.47440
31/03/14£36,046£36,443£-397£3,683£41,280£28,5329.47820
31/03/13£33,753£35,095£-1,342£3,679£41,352£28,5149.77600
31/03/12£39,699£35,018£4,681£3,894£41,414£29,122107390
31/03/11£34,382£33,781£601£3,693£35,761£30,57910.97660
31/03/10£34,023£33,917£106£3,485£34,937£30,20710.77730
31/03/09£34,253£39,817£-5,564£3,549£33,981£29,2328.87000
31/03/08*£39,098£35,015£4,083£3,327£42,271£21,1937.38110
31/03/07£35,020£32,353£2,667£2,893£38,490£16,5056.17990
31/03/06*£12,214£10,204£2,010£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£16,735£10,959£5,776£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£10,369£10,316£53£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 13.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 705 employees
  • 240 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Rainbows: a parent support group
£10,000 13/05/2022
The funding will be used to run a support group for families of children with learning needs. The project aim is to offer advice support and help families build a network around shared experiences.
Pears Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£150,000 10/05/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Connect Together
£9,992 05/03/2021
12
The funding will be used to provide a programme of online creative and social activities for vulnerable adults living with learning disabilities. The project aims to decrease feelings of isolation ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£150,000 07/06/2020
12
Core Funding
Pears Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£150,000 04/06/2019
12
Core funding
Pears Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£150,000 23/05/2018
12
Core funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Stepping Stones
£7,180 10/01/2018
12
This project will provide work experience opportunities for young people with learning disabilities, in order to improve employability skills, confidence and professional development.
Pears Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£150,000 25/04/2017
12
Core funding
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£75,000 08/12/2016
Assistive technology for supported living accommodation in Barnet
Pears Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£150,000 17/05/2016
12
Core funding
Pears Foundation - Grant to Norwood
£150,000 01/04/2015
12
Core funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Unity Funsense
£10,000 21/01/2015
12
Not Available
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Norwood Ravenswood Ltd
£121,000 27/11/2014
£121,000 (£39,000; £40,400; £41,600) towards the cost of an Elite Team Leader, and Sports and Job Coach within the Change the Game sports programme.
Sport England - Change the Game
£444,467 21/05/2014
Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Change the Game'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
National Lottery Community Fund - Freedom Through Travel
£206,257 07/02/2011
48
This new project will deliver travel training to people with learning disabilities in Barnet, Wokingham, Harrow, Haringey and Barkingside. It will also train project staff to deliver travel training ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Skills for life
£10,000 15/04/2010
12
A project in Stanmore, Middlesex, to provide assistive technology devices and software to aid people with learning disabilities, helping them lead full and independent lives as part of their ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-71
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/11/1996, number: 1059050
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/10/1996, number: 03263519
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR08: 13 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 22 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FORMER EMS LIMITED on 11/05/2021
  • Asset transfer in from THE M AND S TEACHER CHARITABLE TRUST on 24/07/2023
Main office

NORWOOD
BROADWAY HOUSE
80-82 THE BROADWAY
STANMORE
HA7 4HB

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN, YOUNGPEOPLE AND ADULTS DRAWN PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, WHO ARE INNEED BY REASON OF DISABILITY, ABUSE, NEGLECT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, THROUGHPROVIDING OR SECURING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, SUPPORT, CARE,TREATMENT, SUBSTITUTE FAMILY CARE, ADOPTION SERVICES, ACCOMMODATION AND/OR OTHER ASSISTANCEOF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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