Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

HOPSCOTCH WOMEN'S CENTRE 

Hopscotch seeks to address racial and gender inequality and empowers women facing this injustice and disadvantage in a culturally sensitive way, so they can be included and equal in society. We are responsive to changing needs. We aspire to maximize opportunities for women so they feel confident in achieving their aspirations. We advocate for individuals and communities.
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 unusually 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 24 years
(26 years as a company)

https://hopscotchuk.org/

info@hopscotchuk.org

02073888198

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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£2,434£2,391£43£25£380£3741.9844
31/03/22£2,365£2,217£148£0£337£3201.7802
31/03/21£1,697£1,527£170£0£189£1761.4735
31/03/20£1,568£1,620£-53£0£18£80.1812
31/03/19£1,493£1,497£-3£0£71£710.68416
31/03/18£1,446£1,460£-14£0£75£630.5750
31/03/17£1,160£1,215£-55£0£89£890.9660
31/03/16£1,335£1,292£44£0£163£910.8620
31/03/15£1,224£1,234£-11£10£119£960.9250
31/03/14*£1,041£1,103£-63£6£200£1972.1470
31/03/13£724£714£11£6£263£2544.3260
31/03/12£730£730£0£8£252£2524.1210
31/03/11£856£891£-35£10£252£2523.4280
31/03/10*£1,117£1,111£6£13£287£2823370
31/03/09£1,004£1,081£-77£11£281£2713320
31/03/08£1,022£1,056£-34£10£358£3033.4320
31/03/07£911£811£100£17£392£3425.1350
31/03/06*£675£687£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£564£581£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£530£459£70£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 58%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 1.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 84 employees
  • 4 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden,

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
City Bridge Trust£249,210
Camden Giving£211,000
The London Community Foundation£135,635
Trust for London£95,700
National Lottery Community Fund£78,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Hopscotch Women’s Centre
£8,700 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2021-8989
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hopscotch Women's Centre
£244,210 29/03/2022
£244,210 over 5 years (£48,087; £47,769; £48,755; £49,600; £49,999) towards 0.8 FTE salary costs, programme costs and overheads of delivering a holistic and trauma-informed programme to women ....more
Trust for London - Hopscotch Women’s Centre
£87,000 09/06/2021
36
The funding is for a Better Employment work programme, tackling in-work poverty for mainly BAME women in a culturally sensitive way.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£9,557 08/01/2021
3
Driving forwards our floating services into even more areas than previously planned, so we can reach disadvantaged BAME women close to their homes, and provide the essential support they need to feel ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to Polka Community Garden
£20,000 01/12/2020
Polka Community Garden
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£25,008 07/10/2020
us to deliver our services in an appropriate way to reach more underrepresented and disproportionately affected BAME women by moving services to where the women are, as well as more online support ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£75,461 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget. Please note that your application has been part funded as confirmed with you by MOPAC.
Camden Giving - Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£5,000 08/06/2020
0
N/A
National Lottery Community Fund - Hopscotch Womens Centre- Covid -19
£78,000 02/06/2020
6
Hopscotch are a BAME women’s charity with abuse and welfare support central to their work and they are focusing heavily on Domestic Abuse support at this time with the increase in disclosures and ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£25,609 27/04/2020
A response to the urgent increase in rates of domestic abuse and poverty due to isolation, with increased risk rate coming through to us daily. We need help with matching infrastructure to need so we ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£5,000 17/04/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Camden Giving - Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre - Covid19 Charity Fund
£6,000 09/04/2020
Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre require urgent funding for:-- work laptops for staff (we currently have 1)- work phones for all staff engaged in the crisis work- increased data for all work phones- ....more
GMSP Foundation - Grant to Hopscotch
£10,000 06/04/2020
Support towards clinical supervision and a Mental Health advocate
Camden Giving - On Track - Sustaining Families into the Future
£100,000 07/02/2020
38
This project will provide practical and emotional support to struggling families with young children to enable them to meet their children’s needs and move towards skills for training and ....more
Camden Giving - On Track - Sustaining Families into the Future
£100,000 07/02/2020
24
This project will be a package of practical and emotional support offered to struggling families with young children to enable them to meet their children’s needs and move towards skills for ....more
Greater London Authority - Citizen Led Engagement Programme
£11,999 26/03/2019
Citizen-Led is a peer research project designed to enhance engagement with communities whose voice and influence over public policy has previously been unheard. 
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£102,403 23/10/2018
36
Outreach, mentoring, healthy relationships workshops and fun activities for BME girls who are from low income families and are socially isolated. Activities will enable them to increase their ....more
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£30,000 24/05/2018
24
Kotha Bol (Speak Out) Plus; Support for women experiencing domestic violence
Trust for London - Hopscotch Asian Women’s Centre
£82,000 12/10/2017
24
The funding is towards recruit, train and support carers and other low paid workers to improve their skills and confidence and help them to move into better paid conditions and/or job. Develop ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - LON 1.1 - Women at the Centre
£740,400 14/07/2016
36
This project seeks to increase the skills and self-confidence of unemployed and economically inactive BAME women from the Central London boroughs, to improve their work readiness and support them ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Lon/1/1 Women at the Centre
£39,391 06/11/2015
12
This grant will be used to develop plans for a project across all nine boroughs of London to help tackle unemployment and economic inactivity among BME women. Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre will lead ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Kotha Bol
£295,698 17/04/2013
36
This is a continuation and expansion of a project by Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre to tackle the issue of domestic violence against Asian women in Camden through improving Asian women's ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre
£34,200 21/01/2013
Hopscotch provides a range of advice, training and family support services for Asian women and their families in Camden. Their advice service supports women to receive their benefits, know their ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-48
  • RIA BROOKES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Assistant Knowledge Manager
  • SIMRAN CHAWLA (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Public Involvement Advisor, Other trusteeship: TB ALERT,
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/02/2000, number: 1079574
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/02/1998, number: 03512914
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR14: 1 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR06: 303 days late, AR05: 15 days late, AR04: 24 days late,
Main office

50-52 Hampstead Road
London
NW1 2PY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE:(A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE PARTICULARLY AMONG THE ASIAN COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR THE BANGLADESHI COMMUNITY RESIDENT IN CAMDEN(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION(C) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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