Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

VOYAGE 

To promote education and training and build an environment of greater trust and confidence between young people in the BAME communities, the criminal justice and educational systems.To nurture young people who in turn will help their communities combat crime, improve environments within schools and assist in the improvement of the services delivered to communities and public sector.
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
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
Established: 26 years

www.voyageyouth.com

admin@voyageyouth.com

02076138343

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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£423£430£-7n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22£418£329£89n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/21£370£236£134n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/20£193£189£4n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/19£190£148£42n/an/an/an/an/a45
31/03/18*£138£146£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£82£95£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£124£158£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£101£180£-79£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£434£474£-40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£420£528£-109£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£450£441£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£100£108£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£101£122£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£26£2£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£3£1£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£0£0£0£0£0£0NAN00
31/03/06*£0£1£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£3£0£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£2£3£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 21%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 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
Esmee Fairbairn£110,319
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£93,000
Hackney Council£49,942
DCMS£35,000
City Bridge Trust£32,825
National Lottery Community Fund£17,500
Power to Change£12,000
Co-Operative Group£8,470
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Power to Change - COM-TECH - Voyage
£12,000 28/09/2023
360G-ptc-gr-18801COM-TECH - Voyage
National Lottery Community Fund - MH - Summer University programme for at risk young people
£8,000 28/07/2023
The funding will be used to deliver an additional 15 sessions over a 3 week period in the summer (from 7 August 2023) with some additional evenings offered in the Autumn term. The project will create ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Voyage
£5,000 15/03/2023
to support the delivery of the Young Leaders for Sustainable Cities course to address the lack of diverse representation in the environment sector and our responsibility towards the environment.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voyage
£5,253 30/01/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Young Leaders Programme
£3,000 18/01/2023
VOYAGE (Voice of Youth and Genuine Empowerment) aims to empower marginalised Black and minoritised young people aged 14-25 years and provide them with the self-awareness and motivation to transform ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to Voyage
£10,000 12/05/2022
Holiday programmes for 60 14-15 yr olds from low economic and diverse ethnic backgrounds. Empowering and supporting young people to take action for climate justice and the environment through ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voyage
£105,066 23/06/2021
Towards project costs to develop and pilot the Young Leaders for Sustainable Cities programme to support and encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to obtain an environmental qualification
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Young Leaders Programme
£90,000 17/05/2021
VOYAGE (Voice of Youth and Genuine Empowerment) aims to empower marginalised Black and minoritised young people aged 14-25 years and provide them with the self-awareness and motivation to transform ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to Voyage
£39,942 24/03/2021
12
Wave 5 (Project): The development and initial pilot of Young Leaders for Sustainable Cities, which will help address the racial imbalance within the environmental sector while providing educational, ....more
Indigo Trust - Empowering marginalised young black people
£2,000 15/12/2020
Core unrestricted funding to support its work
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£35,000 29/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Voyage
£20,125 28/09/2020
towards updating systems and employing a digital consultant to improve and encourage online discourse in the community regarding COVID 19 and Black Lives Matter, as outlined in your application
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Voyage
£5,000 04/05/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Voyage
£7,700 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £7,700, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisations current grant.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Voyage Youth
£8,470 15/11/2019
We want to run a weekend, half term and holiday leadership academy for students completing our structured courses.
National Lottery Community Fund - Leadership Project
£9,500 21/06/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a leadership and support programme focusing young people at risk in order to raise participant's aspiration, confidence and skills.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,000 14/02/2019
to cover a P/T Youth Leadership Coordinator for 6 months
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Voyage
£3,100 04/02/2019
purchase of computers for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in London
Trust for London - Voyage
£71,000 12/10/2017
24
The funding is towards Voyage appointing a Youth Leadership Coordinator (YLC) to implement our youth take over strategy in time for 2020. The YLC will maintain a strong focus developing Voyage; youth ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Voyage
£100,700 24/11/2016
36
£100,700 over three years (£36,000, £33,900, £30,800) for the salary of a part-time (14hpw) Project Coordinator, the cost of Tutors and Mentors, related overheads and associated costs for the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/02/1998, number: 1068108
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
  • 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
  • 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; AR18: 16 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR09: 1 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR04: 2 days late,
Main office

New City College
FALKIRK STREET
LONDON
N1 6HQ

Objectives

(1) TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP PARTICULARLY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE BLACK OR WHO ARE FROM OTHER MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS (2) TO PROMOTE RACIAL HARMONY BY WORKING TOWARDS THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THE POLICE SERVICE AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE BLACK OR WHO ARE FROM OTHER MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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