Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Good reserves management: +3
Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Reasonable growth: +1
Deficit latest year: -2

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
All male board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

KIDS OUT UK

KidsOut brings fun and happiness into the lives of disadvantaged children. KidsOut is a charity based on action rather than words, making a real difference to lives of disadvantaged young people. Through our amazing work we give them positive experiences to support them becoming future members of our society and workforce.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Income was lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 25 years

kidsout.org.uk

info@kidsout.org.uk

01525385252

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
30/06/23		£4,125	£4,645	£-520	£550	£3,984	£1,410	3.6	13	1,376
30/06/22	*	£4,879	£4,381	£498	£482	£4,504	£1,752	4.8	11	500
30/06/21		£3,539	£2,577	£963	£102	£3,705	£1,715	8	12	20
30/06/20		£3,768	£2,699	£1,069	£266	£2,571	£905	4	16	100
30/06/19	*	£3,387	£3,307	£79	£574	£1,814	£1,083	3.9	12	30
30/06/18		£3,313	£3,166	£147	£506	£1,734	£1,143	4.3	11	0
30/06/17		£2,552	£2,438	£113	£432	£1,543	£1,051	5.2	10	0
30/06/16		£2,450	£1,932	£518	£168	£1,474	£1,157	7.2	8	0
30/06/15		£2,036	£1,809	£227	£222	£956	£925	6.1	9	0
30/06/14		£1,612	£1,581	£31	£201	£729	£713	5.4	9	0
30/06/13		£791	£730	£61	£275	£698	£666	11	8	0
30/06/12		£772	£637	£135	£237	£637	£575	10.8	8	0
30/06/11		£646	£582	£64	£275	£502	£451	9.3	8	0
30/06/10		£582	£564	£18	£161	£438	£438	9.3	8	0
30/06/09		£737	£717	£20	£175	£420	£397	6.6	11	0
30/06/08		£1,306	£1,091	£216	£210	£400	£338	3.7	13	0
30/06/07		£757	£932	£-175	£336	£185	£151	1.9	13	0
30/06/06		£586	£906	£-320	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/05		£640	£755	£-115	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/04		£744	£470	£274	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 35%
Reserves/Spending: 3.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 4.9

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Disability
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

13 employees
1,376 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

Home Office	£373,625
City Bridge Trust	£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,300
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation	£4,300

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to KidsOut
£250	15/09/2022	As requested by the donor towards positive experiences for disadvantaged children and young people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to KidsOut
£500	23/02/2021	As requested by the donor towards positive experiences for disadvantaged children and young people.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to KidsOut
£3,820	24/10/2020	Our Bedfordshire and Luton fun days, enhance the social inclusion of the region’s most disadvantaged children in their local communities.
Home Office - Covid-19 Support for Domestic Abuse Charities
£130,000	06/07/2020	Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
City Bridge Trust - Grant to KidsOut
£10,000	15/05/2020	A grant of £10,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to KidsOut
£750	12/05/2020	to provide supermarket vouchers for 30 families self-isolating in women's refuges across Cambridgeshire
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Stream 1 - Delivery or Support Costs
£4,300	30/04/2020 1	Grant to Kids Out
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Relief - Food Vouchers for families in Scottish refuges
£9,300	24/04/2020 2	This group will use the funding to distribute food vouchers to families in Women's Aid refuges across Scotland.
Home Office - KIDS OUT UK
£129,800	01/04/2020	This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through ....more This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through providing support to front-line services, including other charitable organisations or the statutory sector, to better respond to victims.
Home Office - KIDS OUT UK
£113,825	01/04/2020	The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual ....more The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual levels of demand, to keep pace with rising levels of demand during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and to remain solvent such that they can continue to provide support both during and after the pandemic. This will all help to safeguard victims of DA and provide essential emergency support to those affected by COVID-19.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to KidsOut
£24,700	23/10/2017	Refurbishment for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Leighton Buzzard
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to KidsOut
£33,000	24/11/2011	the salaries of two Support Workers
National Lottery Community Fund - World Stories
£108,814	10/03/2010 24	This England-wide project aims to develop the listening and speaking skills of children aged under 11 who speak the 20 most common languages for people with English as a second language. It will ....more This England-wide project aims to develop the listening and speaking skills of children aged under 11 who speak the 20 most common languages for people with English as a second language. It will create a bank of stories in both these languages and in English, which will then be downloaded by people working with children in educational, play and care settings. The children will be encouraged to create their own responses such as pictures, poems and stories and send them in to the organisation.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to KidsOut
£37,523	15/09/2009 24	Towards Project costs Towards the salary and costs of a part-time project co-ordinator to create a bank of stories in the 20 languages most commonly spoken by children with English as an additional ....more Towards Project costs Towards the salary and costs of a part-time project co-ordinator to create a bank of stories in the 20 languages most commonly spoken by children with English as an additional language.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 37-84

CHRIS ADCOCK Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Recruitment Consultant

DAVID PALMER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: CHARITABLE TRUST OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 1130 (GREATER LONDON),

IAN CHILD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

JOHN ROWLAND Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

KEVIN MACK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

MARK STEVENS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

STEVE CARTWRIGHT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Sales Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/06/1999, number: 1075789
Registered at Companies House on 22/09/1998, number: 03636219

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

20/08/2021 - Asset transfer in from THE ROTARY CLUB OF GLASTONBURY AND STREET TRUST FUND
14/03/2022 - Asset transfer in from ROTARY CLUB OF ITCHEN VALLEY
26/08/2022 - Asset transfer in from NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH (LEIGHTON BUZZARD)

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR22: 37 days late, AR19: 48 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE ROTARY CLUB OF GLASTONBURY AND STREET TRUST FUND on 20/08/2021
Asset transfer in from ROTARY CLUB OF ITCHEN VALLEY on 14/03/2022
Asset transfer in from NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH (LEIGHTON BUZZARD) on 26/08/2022

Main office

Kidsout UK Ltd
14 Church Square
Leighton Buzzard
LU7 1AE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SICK, DISABLED OR OTHERWISE IN NEED IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND SO TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE:1) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY;2) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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