Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 8
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

THE RIVER HOUSE TRUST

CARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO LOCAL INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY HIV
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£183£230£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/22£207£230£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/21£234£213£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20?£392£339£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£207£352£-145n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£78£257£-179n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£304£307£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£317£311£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£331£267£63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£304£276£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£291£275£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£313£279£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£307£286£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£319£307£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£301£309£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£332£324£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£364£396£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£344£372£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£343£387£-44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£326£310£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 28 years

www.riverhouseuk.org

info@riverhouseuk.org

02087415733

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£294,806
City Bridge Trust£167,557
People's Health Trust£18,486
The London Community Foundation£4,850
Co-Operative Group£4,525
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteering Plus
£265,523 06/07/2023
The funding will be used to support people who live with HIV. The project aims to improve their mental wellbeing by providing nursing advice and counselling as well developing new skills through educational courses.
London Catalyst - River House Trust - 9
£800 06/09/2022
Hardship Fund
People's Health Trust - River House Re-engagement
£18,486 10/11/2021
This two-year project is for older people with HIV living in the London borough of Ealing, Fulham and Hammersmith. It aims to bring participants together to increase peer support and to socialise. It builds on existing activities as part of the ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to River House Trust
£35,494 22/04/2021
towards the Director's salary and on-costs and a range of organisational core costs as per revised budget
Co-Operative Group - Grant to River House Trust
£4,525 24/10/2020
We would like to run a weekly social group, out in the community, for isolated older people who are living with HIV.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to River House Trust
£23,463 11/09/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application for the project to adapt and reopen the peer-lunch service for isolated older people with HIV.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to River House Trust
£87,500 12/06/2020
60
£87,500 over five years (£19,210; £16,550; £16,820; £17,240; £17,680) towards 0.2 FTE Social Worker; volunteer expenses; travel reimbursement for ten beneficiaries; and administration costs of the foodbank and support service.
National Lottery Community Fund - River House to Your House
£29,283 04/06/2020
12
The funding will be used to support older people with HIV who experience social isolation and loneliness through peer-support groups using Zoom software and one-to-one phone or video call support.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to River House Trust
£21,100 08/05/2020
A grant of £21,100 to fund the essentia.l and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to River House Trust
£4,850 16/04/2020
The funding is for ensuring that our poorest, most health-vulnerable and isolated members have enough food to eat, and don't have to put themselves at extra risk through using public transport to visit our foodbank. We want to scale this up to meet ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Women with HIV - supporting ourselves
£9,960 02/08/2019
12
The funding will be used to create a peer led group that is designed to support women with HIV. The project aims to improve levels of wellbeing, create access to social activities and discuss health issues.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-77
  • DEAN NICHOLSON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Therapy Services Manager And Therapist
  • DR JOSE CATALAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Doctor
  • DR MARK NELSON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Consultant Physician
  • DR MICHAEL RAYMENT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Medical Doctor
  • IAN GOVENDIR Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Fundraisor
  • JEREMY BOOTH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • MEG DILLON Appointed: 2020
  • REV CHRISTOPHER ANTONY ROGERS (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Priest
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/12/1996, number: 1059696
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/09/1996, number: 03248808
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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

FURNIVAL GARDENS
OFF RUTLAND GROVE
HAMMERSMITH
LONDON
W6 9DJ

Objectives

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AMONGST PERSONS WHO ARE HIV POSITIVE OR WHO ARE LIVING WITH AIDS, OR THOSE AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS, BY THE PROVISION OF CARE SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING TO THOSE WHO ARE HIV POSITIVE AND TO PEOPLE WITH AIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND PEOPLE CARING FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND SURROUNDING AREA.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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