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

Grant maker 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:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
There are only 3 trustees
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
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
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
31/03/23		£327	£308	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/03/22		£370	£340	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/21		£355	£347	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/20		£399	£397	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19	*	£484	£470	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/18	*	£555	£553	£2	£45	£-13	£-13	-0.3	34	0
31/03/17		£475	£543	£-68	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£501	£516	£-15	£40	£52	£52	1.2	28	0
31/03/15		£480	£501	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£529	£475	£54	£29	£88	£79	2	20	0
31/03/13		£391	£283	£108	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£183	£187	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£200	£201	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£210	£204	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£214	£202	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£257	£263	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£136	£200	£-64	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£246	£214	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£239	£251	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£205	£253	£-48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 25 years

www.realaction.org.uk

admin@realaction.org.uk

02089602065

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Technical, vocational and continuing education

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
16 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000	03/09/2021	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

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