Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 5
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

THE OTHERWISE CLUB 

The Otherwise Club is a community centre for families choosing to educate their children out of school. It provides support, activities, sporting and drama events and outings as well as project groups that specialise in topics.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently

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
31/08/23£22£24£-2n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/08/22£28£36£-8n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/21£20£14£6n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/20£32£29£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/19*£4£2£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/08/18£21£20£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/17£18£19£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£37£37£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15*£18£20£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£16£15£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£15£15£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£11£10£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/11£12£12£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/10*£10£10£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/09£15£15£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/08£10£10£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/07£24£24£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/06£7£7£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/05£8£7£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/04£9£10£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 26 years
Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebook
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Youth Music - Cre8tive Granville
£22,253 12/03/2021
Cre8tive Granville
National Lottery Community Fund - Drama Celebrations! 25 Years!
£3,400 28/02/2018
12
This project will run weekly drama workshops for young people culminating in a show for the local community. The young people will create and perform in the show and through this will develop ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 52-68
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/10/1998, number: 1071831
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/06/1997, number: 03379478
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 4 days late, AR15: 22 days late, AR10: 20 days late,
Main office

1 CROXLEY ROAD
LONDON
W9 3HH

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WHOSE FAMILIES CHOSE TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL AND WHO REMAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION AT ALL TIMES WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, SEX, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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