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Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 4
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -2 ?

REAL ACTION (Q.P.C.T.) LTD

The company is a community led educational charity. Its formal activities are to: Advance the education of children, young people and families. It also provide education and training for adults so as to assist them in finding employment. The company operates the Learning store which is the base of the company activities. The store has the appearance of a bookshop with borrowing facilities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
  • 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 £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£327£308£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£370£340£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£355£347£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£399£397£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19*£484£470£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£555£553£2£45£-13£-13-0.3340
31/03/17£475£543£-68n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£501£516£-15£40£52£521.2280
31/03/15£480£501£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£529£475£54£29£88£792200
31/03/13£391£283£108n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£183£187£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£200£201£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£210£204£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£214£202£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£257£263£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£136£200£-64n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£246£214£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£239£251£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£205£253£-48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 26 years

www.realaction.org.uk

admin@realaction.org.uk

02089602065

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 03/09/2021
36
Butterfly Education Resurrection
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Real Action
£90,000 18/11/2020
36
Butterfly Action

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • DENNIS HAYES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Professor
  • DR FOLASADE HELEN LAMIKANRA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Professor
  • PATRICIA ARCENEGUI CALVO Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/11/1998, number: 1072633
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/12/1997, number: 03485360
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 32 days late, AR18: 5 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 14 days late, AR10: 143 days late, AR09: 117 days late, AR08: 11 days late, AR07: 248 days late, AR06: 27 days late, AR05: 14 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

THE LEARNING STORE
3 MOZART STREET
LONDON
W10 4LA

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF QUEEN'S PARK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY (A) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES. AND (B) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ADULTS PARTICULARLY SO AS TO ASSIST THEM IN FINDING EMPLOYMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

QUEEN'S PARK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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