Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Dynamic board: +3
    • Grant maker support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

    COMMUNITY BARNET 

    General Charitable Purposes, the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness; to promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of these purposes and to that end to bring together representatives of voluntary organisations and statutory authorities; makes grants to organisations and individuals.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

    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£1,521£1,412£109£0£606£3923.32775
    31/03/22£1,493£1,496£-3£0£497£3823.12975
    31/03/21£1,320£1,351£-31£0£500£3823.42975
    31/03/20£1,251£1,347£-97£0£531£3983.52836
    31/03/19£1,388£1,286£102£0£633£2242.12560
    31/03/18£1,301£1,062£239£0£531£2312.6220
    31/03/17£757£684£73£0£292£981.7200
    31/03/16£634£544£91£0£219£1032.3170
    31/03/15£664£676£-12£8£128£260.5220
    31/03/14£796£796£0£8£141£260.4190
    31/03/13£732£690£41£6£140£520.9160
    31/03/12£791£758£33£27£99£570.990
    31/03/11*£953£934£19£17£139£971.2200
    31/03/10£956£983£-27£34£82£821100
    31/03/09£885£901£-16£158£149£1492100
    31/03/08*£816£826£-10£148£176£1762.6130
    31/03/07*£723£740£-17£166£193£1933.1110
    31/03/06£830£812£18£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£732£710£22£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£479£488£-10£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 20%
    Liabilities/Income: 10%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 65%
    Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
    Quick Ratio: 3.5
    Asset Split ?
    Established: 26 years

    www.communitybarnet.org.uk

    Julie.Pal@communitybarnet.org.uk

    02083648400

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    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Community services
    How it operates
    • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
    • Makes Grants to Individuals
    • Makes Grants to Organisations
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England,
    Who it helps
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • Other Defined Groups
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • 27 employees
    • 75 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£634,386
    Trust for London£107,000
    City Bridge Trust£84,262
    Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime£21,314
    Greater London Authority£19,906
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Greater London Authority - Barnet Community Resilience Project
    £5,000 08/09/2023
    We will use our community partnerships and connections and in-depth working knowledge and relationships with statutory services and first providers, to improve engagement and preparedness. We will ....more
    Greater London Authority - Barnet Community Resilience Project
    £4,906 28/02/2023
    Barnet Community Resilience Project We will use our community partnerships and connections and in-depth working knowledge and relationships with statutory services and first providers, to improve ....more
    Greater London Authority - The Romanian and Eastern European Hub
    £10,000 11/01/2023
    This project will support 120 vulnerable Eastern Europeans with access to health, employment, welfare benefits, housing and education services
    Trust for London - CommUNITY Barnet
    £87,000 16/11/2022
    The funding is for research into the barriers currently faced by local Black businesses that will inform a campaign to increase investment and support of Black social enterprise and entrepreneurs, to ....more
    Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime - Safer Neighbourhood Boards Contribution
    £21,314 01/10/2022
    Barnet Safer Neighbourhood Board
    National Lottery Community Fund - Barnet Wellbeing Matters
    £475,386 15/12/2021
    36
    The project will use the funding over three years for their mental wellbeing service delivered through a partnership of charities. This will include training for staff in Mental Health First Aid ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Enfield Connections Homelessness Project
    £9,000 14/05/2021
    The funding will be used to offer advice to homeless people in Enfield. The project aims to provide early support to prevent reaching crisis point and effects on mental health.
    Trust for London - Community Barnet
    £20,000 24/02/2021
    The funding is for development of the Network in order to fully engage and lead the Eastern European community in identifying and delivering on their priorities. This will entail providing community ....more
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to CommUNITY Barnet
    £10,000 15/12/2020
    0
    National Lottery Community Fund - Giving Schemes-Community Barnet & Barnet Giving
    £150,000 02/12/2020
    11
    The funding will help reach charities and community groups in Barnet which are trying to tackle key issues such as equality physical & mental wellbeing poverty and more.
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to CommUNITY Barnet
    £49,348 28/09/2020
    towards the salaries of a Development Worker and Befriending Co-Ordinator and associated costs to run the befriending and development programmes, as outlined in the revised budget agreed during ....more
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to CommUNITY Barnet
    £15,000 06/08/2020
    A grant of £15,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that RCCT can carry on providing support to Londoners.
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Community Barnet
    £9,914 04/05/2020
    A grant of £9,914 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Barnet Parent Plus
    £10,000 04/10/2013
    12
    The charity in Colindale will use the funding to run a pilot project to support vulnerable parents affected by learning disabilities. This will help minimise the number of their children taken into ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (10)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees: 32-76
    • MAV GHALLEY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Designated Clinical Officer
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/08/1998, number: 1071035
    • Registered at Companies House on 28/04/1998, number: 03554508
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • 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; AR11: 57 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 35 days late,
    Main office

    Community Barnet
    SEIDs Hub Empire Way
    Wembley
    Wembley
    Middlesex
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    Objectives

    (A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOROUGH OF BARNET AND IN PARTICULAR, THEN ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. (B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    BARNET

    Data Sources

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    360 Giving
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