Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG LONDON 

Partnership for Young London is a strategic organisation working to support, promote and improve services for young people across London through partnerships with central and regional government, local authorities, voluntary youth organisations and young Londoners; and in acting as a hub for youth-related issues in London.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Established: 27 years

www.partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk

sharon.long@cityoflondon.gov.uk

0207 332 3996

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£520£575£-54£26£444£731.51240
31/03/22£543£498£45£38£500£741.81220
31/03/21£571£407£164£27£452£471.4925
31/03/20£496£354£141n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/19£270£272£-2n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£299£280£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£168£160£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£127£121£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£106£105£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£102£116£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£74£120£-45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£55£114£-59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£146£155£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£145£188£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£211£158£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£201£188£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£198£169£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£139£93£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£89£109£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£87£123£-35£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 16%
Reserves/Spending: 1.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 16.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 12 employees
  • 40 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
National Lottery Community Fund£491,203
City Bridge Trust£382,375
Trust for London£181,205
Greater London Authority£58,689
Hyde Charitable Trust£24,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Voice for Care Leavers
£38,689 21/08/2023
This project will work with care experienced young people, undertaking outreach to all borough-based Children in Care Councils and Participation Workers to raise awareness about the photo Voter ID ....more
Hyde Charitable Trust - Youth Led Research
£16,000 27/10/2022
Youth Led Research
Trust for London - Partnership for Young London
£14,005 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9315
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Partnership for Young London
£369,000 26/09/2022
60
£369,000 over five years (£68,000; £70,900; £73,720; £76,740; £79,640) towards salary costs of Strategic Director and Workforce Lead and other related costs to sustain and develop ....more
Trust for London - Partnership for Young London
£167,200 09/02/2022
The funding is for strengthening young people's voices in policy and practice across London, ensuring that recovery post-COVID19 is inclusive and equitable. Young people will co-design and co-deliver ....more
Hyde Charitable Trust - Young Person's Post
£8,000 04/02/2022
Young Person's Post
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Connections - Authoring Our Own Stories
£445,000 25/11/2021
Partnership for Young London is London's Regional Youth Unit providing research training support for London's youth sector. The aim of the project is to work with other regional youth units to ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to The Exchange Erith
£20,000 01/12/2020
The Greenhouse and The Grow-ver
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£10,000 02/09/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
National Lottery Community Fund - Unapologetically Me
£46,203 26/08/2020
5
Partnership for Young London aims to connect organisations local and regional government with young people. They develop and share knowledge and skills to equip others to help young people in London ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Partnership for Young London
£13,375 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £13,375, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant. COVID19
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Vision for Young Londoners - A Cross-Sector Platform For Action
£60,000 11/03/2019
24
Follow-on funding to support the development of a cross-sector platform to build partnerships and influence policy.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Partnership for Young London
£9,800 28/02/2019
#Flip it Young people from the children in care council will create a youth-led asset based social media campaign profiling the positive contribution of young Londoners. Participants will take part ....more
Trust for London - Partnership for Young London
£171,000 20/02/2019
36
The funding will build the skills and capacity of youth organisations and young people to conduct their own peer-research, take forward youth-led campaigns and put youth voice at the core of practice ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Partnership for Young London
£106,000 06/07/2018
24
£106,000 over two years (£52,500; £53,500) for the costs of the part-time Development Lead, admin support and associated running costs.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Partnership For Young London
£23,397 24/04/2018
12
Young Leaders Programme - a network for youth policy and practice
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Partnership for Young London
£42,400 06/09/2017
Know Your Roots: Young women and men talk race gender and hair
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Vision for Young Londoners: a cross-sector regional youth policy
£60,000 27/02/2017
24
Having developed the ‘Vision for Young Londoners’ agenda, the Partnership would like to increase its capacity to drive the identified priorities forward. It will support the coalition ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Partnership for Young London
£142,000 12/03/2015
36
£ 142,000 over three years (£47,300, £47,000, £47,700) for a Development Lead, related admin support, associated running costs, and the costs of events and training sessions.
National Lottery Community Fund - London Partnership Development Funding
£18,375 04/09/2012
12
This application is from Partnership for Young London, a charity and registered company based in London, serving the development of the Talent Match partnership in the London LEP area.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-59
  • FENELLA BOYLE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Global Equities Manager
  • JADE PAUL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Communications Manager
  • SUZANNE WOOD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Consultant
  • TROY NORBERT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Development Manager Charity Sector
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/05/1997, number: 1062226
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/03/1997, number: 03334117
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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; AR13: 1 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

CORPORATION OF LONDON
PO BOX 270
LONDON
EC2P 2EJ

Objectives

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF YOUNG PERSONS AND ADULTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST OF ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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