Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

VALLEYS KIDS 

Valleys Kids is a charity based in South Wales with a 34-year track record of working with disadvantaged children and families.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 25 years

www.valleyskids.org

lynne@valleyskids.biz

01443420870

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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*£1,477£3,103£-1,626£128£3,421£3,22412.5510
31/03/22£2,190£1,805£385£80£5,071£3322.25050
31/03/21£1,847£1,715£132£58£4,654£4,64932.54140
31/03/20£1,828£1,801£26£148£4,554£4,53930.243106
31/03/19£2,234£1,722£512£151£4,453£4,11028.637103
31/03/18£2,312£1,793£519£28£3,970£3,94526.4370
31/03/17£1,996£1,634£363£21£3,451£3,42325.1390
31/03/16£1,361£1,518£-157£11£3,088£3,07824.3450
31/03/15£1,707£1,752£-45£48£3,246£3,18821.8450
31/03/14£1,776£1,856£-80£97£3,290£3,26621.1570
31/03/13£2,008£2,221£-213£87£3,370£3,37018.2520
31/03/12£2,167£1,967£200£80£3,583£3,41020.8500
31/03/11£2,028£1,829£199£87£3,384£3,37922.2450
31/03/10£1,692£1,736£-44£75£3,185£3,15321.8480
31/03/09£1,705£1,739£-34£98£3,229£3,20322.1490
31/03/08£1,952£1,726£226£118£3,263£3,26322.7550
31/03/07£2,372£1,746£626£102£3,037£3,03720.9460
31/03/06£3,489£1,636£1,853£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£1,510£417£1,093£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,403£1,311£91£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 44%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 94%
Reserves/Spending: 12.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 51 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout Wales,

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 Heritage Fund£254,422
Tudor Trust£147,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£125,000
BBC Children in Need£119,266
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£100,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£35,200
Esmee Fairbairn£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Valleys Kids
£247,922 30/08/2023
Valleys Voices - A Living History / Lleisiau'r Cymoedd - Hanes byw
Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
£9,978 06/02/2023
community grant
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Valleys Kids
£100,000 01/12/2021
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Valleys Kids
£89,416 10/08/2021
This project will provide a dedicated youth club for children and young people in a disadvantaged area. They will increase their confidence, be more resilient, and have improved wellbeing.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 12/02/2021
Building Core Resilience
Tudor Trust - Grant to Valleys Kids
£2,000 11/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Valleys Kids
£145,000 23/11/2020
36
over three years towards the salary of a new Head of Programmes at an organisation supporting young people in the South Wales Valleys
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Valleys Kids
£6,500 11/11/2020
#15 Fernhill Colliery Heritage Trail
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Valleys Kids
£15,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Sensory Oasis@The Play Yard
£9,594 18/03/2020
12
Valleys Kids in Rhondda Cynon Taf will create The Sensory Oasis, a multi-purpose interactive sensory room within The Play Yard in Treorchy, for use by people with special educational needs and ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Valleys Kids
£35,200 04/02/2020
construction of an activity centre for a charity which works with disadvanatged young people in Wales
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 11/09/2019
Little Bryn Gwyn - Activity Centre
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Valleys Kids
£29,850 21/05/2019
36
This project will provide activities for children and young people from deprived communities. They will increase their self-esteem, better understand their feelings, and make better decisions around ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Valleys Kids
£60,000 08/04/2019
36
Towards the Artworks programme, providing further progression routes and opportunities for young people from the Valleys through partnerships with cultural organisations
National Lottery Community Fund - Fields of Dreams @ Little Bryn Gwyn
£10,000 18/03/2019
12
Fields of Dreams @ Little Bryn Gwyn
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Links
£498,833 24/01/2019
36
Project Summary :_x000D_ The project will be working with families in poverty and or struggling to cope following austerity measures in Rhondda Cynon Taff. Beneficiaries will be families and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 18/12/2018
The Big Give 2018
National Lottery Community Fund - HWF Connecting Communities
£547,440 26/07/2018
48
HWF Connecting Communities
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Valleys Kids
£101,931 02/03/2018
36
This project will fund youth clubc activities for children and young people from a disadvantaged area. They will improve their confidence & self esteem, raise their aspirations, and improve ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Pic 'n' Mix@The Factory
£9,500 28/11/2017
12
Pic 'n' Mix@The Factory
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Valleys Kids
£50,000 16/06/2017
Learning and residential centre near Swansea
Dulverton Trust - Little Bryn Gwyn - Building our Dream - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017
£5,000 14/06/2017
Little Bryn Gwyn - Building our Dream - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017
Dulverton Trust - Time to Grow Activities
£53,400 25/10/2016
Time to Grow Activities
Comic Relief - BA Flying Start initiative 2016
£100,000 13/07/2016
24
The Rhondda Cynon Taf area of South Wales is the 3rd most deprived local authority in Wales and experiences high levels of unemployment, poverty,poor literacy and numeracy and low aspiration. Many ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Families Today
£497,202 25/11/2015
36
Families Today
Tudor Trust - Grant to Valleys Kids
£30,000 23/09/2015
12
towards the purchase of the Old Library in Penygraig, to provide a base for work with young people and families in the South Wales Valleys
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Valleys Kids
£90,000 19/11/2014
Towards core costs associated with ArtWorks, a multi-disciplinary approach to helping disaffected young people tackle issues and events affecting their lives in a meaningful way.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Valleys Kids
£98,300 12/06/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Youth and Family Health Worker at a youth project in a deprived area of South Wales
Dulverton Trust - Time to Grow activities
£26,700 11/06/2014
Time to Grow activities
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Valleys Kids
£75,000 05/05/2011
Towards the salary of the ArtWorks programme manager.
National Lottery Community Fund - LS CONV Rd 5 Economically Inactive Families Convergence
£569,900 30/09/2010
60
The contract has been awarded over a four year period to support targeted groups of 120 economically inactive people in areas of Rhondda Cynon Taff, to engage or re-engage with education, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-84
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/03/1999, number: 1074840
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/02/1999, number: 03717865
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 33 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from TIME BANKING WALES on 10/12/2020
Main office

VALLEYS KIDS
1 CROSS STREET
PENYGRAIG
TONYPANDY
CF40 1LD

Objectives

TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR EDUCATION, PLAY, ARTS, RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF SOUTH WALES, THESE BEING FACILITIES AND SERVICES.1. OF WHICH SUCH PEOPLE HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES2. WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PEOPLE BY PROMOTING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL BEING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTH WALES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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