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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

STARTING OUT CHARITY 

Assisting individuals, businesses and community groups starting out on new and challenging ventures, with a particular emphasis on stopping global warming. To relieve hardship within communities by distributing goods and services via volunteering initiatives run as part of our Kindness Offensive project.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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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
01/03/23£119£100£19n/an/an/an/an/a25
01/03/22£119£93£26n/an/an/an/an/a20
01/03/21£52£42£10n/an/an/an/an/a32
01/03/20£18£14£4n/an/an/an/an/a12
01/03/19*£49£32£16n/an/an/an/an/a300
01/03/18£82£66£17£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/17£203£156£48£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/16£300£296£5£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/15£95£91£3£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/14£62£47£15£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/13£74£56£18£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/12£63£63£0£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/11£68£66£1£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/10£53£53£1£0£0£0n/a00
01/03/09?£61£58£3£0£0£0n/a00
12/12/07£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
12/12/06£2£2£0£0£0£0n/a00
12/12/05*£1£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
12/12/04£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 27 years

http://thekindnessoffensive.com/

robert@thekindnessoffensive.com

01424441787

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 25 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£29,984
Camden Giving£14,980
Co-Operative Group£4,492
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Kindness Offensive
£9,989 05/08/2022
The funding will be used to purchase new admin equipment and create online content to support migrants and refugees who speak English as a second language. The project aims to help newcomers ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Forward
£9,996 25/06/2021
The funding will be used to develop multi-media Community Learning Courses for young people and to launch a phone skills Course for the unemployed. The project aims to teach young people and those ....more
Camden Giving - Phone Whispering for Beginners
£9,980 21/10/2020
9
This funding is for the creation and delivery of an accessible learning course, focused on teaching unemployed Camden residents the necessary skills to approach companies for employment and in-kind ....more
Camden Giving - Starting Out Chartity Kindness Offenive
£5,000 08/06/2020
8
This project will support volunteers, who have to individually collect donated stock and distribute it.
National Lottery Community Fund - Corona Virus Kindness Offensive
£9,999 09/04/2020
12
The charity will set up distribution networks across the community to ensure that products donated by companies unable to sell their products to people who need them because of the current crisis. ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Starting Out Charity- The Kindness Offensive
£4,492 15/11/2019
We want to carry out ""random acts of kindness"" around Hastings on our double-decker bus, bringing people from all walks of life together.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Starting Out Kindness Offensive
£9,917 07/12/2018
12
The project aims to increase skills and confidence through IT workshops.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the Kindness Art Trolley and its art materials
£1,000 04/11/2016
Towards the Kindness Art Trolley and its art materials for disadvantaged communities in North London.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/08/1997, number: 1064064
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR19: 6 days late, AR05: 188 days late,
Main office

KINDNESS OFFENSIVE
5-7 Buck Street
NW1 8NJ

Objectives

1. TO RELIEVE THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY PROVIDING ITEMS AND SERVICES, PARTICULARLY PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS, OR ARE IN NEED OF WORK SPACE, BY ASSISTING THEM TO FIND ACCOMMODATION, WORK SPACE AND EMPLOYMENT SUITABLE TO THEIR NEEDS AND BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION AND WORKSPACE FOR SUCH PURPOSES. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS, PARTICULARLY IN ARTS AND CRAFTS AND TO PROVIDE THEM WITH FACILITIES FOR WORK, RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY BOTH AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.2. TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED AND THOSE WHO FACE SOCIAL OBSTACLES THROUGH THE CREATION OF NEW BUSINESSES AND IN PARTICULAR, (BUT NOT LIMITED TO), SOCIAL ENTERPRISES, (DEFINED AS A BUSINESS WITH PRIMARILY SOCIAL OBJECTIVES WHOSE SURPLUSES ARE PRINCIPALLY REINVESTED FOR THAT PURPOSE).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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