Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

SPURGEONS

We currently deliver more than 50 high-quality services to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges faced by many across the UK - including poverty, abuse problems, offending and other social issues. By partnering with local authorities, supporters and other funding bodies, we come alongside children and their families to help them to work together to find long-lasting solutions.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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 well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

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£12,463£14,307£-1,844£450£20,933£12,41410.4418116
31/03/22£14,159£12,795£1,364£448£22,859£13,61312.8337199
31/03/21£13,128£12,505£623£352£20,316£11,83711.435753
31/03/20£13,432£12,849£583£395£17,873£10,0649.4354219
31/03/19£13,605£12,800£805£388£17,592£10,86710.2332163
31/03/18£10,286£10,413£-127£379£16,691£11,08512.83220
31/03/17£13,210£13,200£9£294£16,714£11,59210.54950
31/03/16£15,164£14,866£298£369£15,894£10,9678.96110
31/03/15£16,272£15,508£764£437£14,814£10,1137.84200
31/03/14£17,115£16,936£179£486£13,310£8,7916.24560
31/03/13£18,161£18,163£-2£543£8,891£5,6743.74820
31/03/12£13,678£14,923£-1,245£502£8,465£5,2454.24200
31/03/11£12,943£14,221£-1,278£553£9,390£5,7104.83790
31/03/10£13,373£15,958£-2,585£379£10,486£6,2704.73560
31/03/09£14,670£16,347£-1,677£398£12,112£5,5604.14170
31/03/08£14,746£14,343£403£577£15,513£8,0336.74420
31/03/07£14,537£14,309£228£476£10,389£5,1174.34350
31/03/06£13,936£13,856£80n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£12,295£11,827£468n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£10,737£10,135£602n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 59%
Reserves/Spending: 10.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 7.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 24 years

www.spurgeons.org

info@spurgeons.org

01933417405

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£367,767
Department of Health£159,142
Harpur Trust£49,150
BBC Children in Need£31,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Spurgeons Young Carers Festival Project
£9,720 10/03/2023
The funding will be used to take young carers to a festival which has been created to bring them together for respite and fun activities. The project aims to improve the wellbeing of young people through a network of peer support.
National Lottery Community Fund - Invisible Walls
£348,047 18/11/2022
This funding will support Spurgeons to continue to deliver support to fathers in HMP Winchester prison and their families through one to one and group sessions. The project will seek to improve parenting skills family relationships during sentence ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Spurgeons
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 04/02/2022
Invisible Walls
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Spurgeons
£30,500 31/01/2022
This project will deliver holiday respite activities to young carers in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. The activities will result in improved mental health, social inclusion and developed support networks.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Art of Being a Dad
£10,000 30/09/2021
The funding will be used to deliver art therapy sessions in prisons for fathers. The project aims to invoke a sense of positivity and achievement strengthen family relationships and to improve and encourage a sense of empathy and understanding ....more
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£7,895 18/06/2021
For local projects that reduce isolation and promote integration
Walton Charity - Elmbridge Family Centre Delegated Fund
£7,000 10/05/2021
Providing a delegated fund for school uniform costs for low-income families
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Spurgeons Children's Charity
£20,000 01/02/2021
Towards an extension grant to contribute to the running costs of the BeLeave service.
Harpur Trust - Project 229
£49,150 08/12/2020
Support for children and young people affected by domestic abuse (SPACE)
Department of Health - Spurgeons
£159,142 28/08/2020
Grant funding to members of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance for priority project work in support of DHSC, NHS England and Improvement and PHE strategic priorities.
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Families with young children
£5,000 21/04/2020
Funding toward bulk buying of essential items, for an organisation based in Elmbridge, to enable families in poverty to have food, baby items and entertainment, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Invisible Walls
£451,995 20/09/2019
35
Invisible Walls
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Spurgeons Children's Charity
£40,000 11/03/2019
24
Towards a service in Greater Birmingham which uses a whole family approach to protect young girls from criminal exploitation and the dangers of gang involvement.
Comic Relief - Police and Schools, Spurgeons (PaSS) project
£456,580 25/01/2017
18
Spurgeons is a children's charity working across the UK offering whole family support to vulnerable young people. This project will work in partnership with the Police and Schools in Birmingham to support the whole family of girls at risk of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Intervention for Self Harm
£228,852 11/01/2017
24
The project aims to establish an intervention support programme to tackle self-harm in children and young people. The programme will provide intensive therapy, while also offering parents support alongside their children's treatment, allowing for ....more
DCMS - Police and Schools, Spurgeons (PaSS) project
£73,471 30/11/2016
Spurgeons is a children's charity working across the UK offering whole family support to vulnerable young people. This project will work in partnership with the Police and Schools in Birmingham to support the whole family of girls at risk of ....more
DCMS - Police and Schools, Spurgeons (PaSS) project
£73,471 30/11/2016
Spurgeons is a children's charity working across the UK offering whole family support to vulnerable young people. This project will work in partnership with the Police and Schools in Birmingham to support the whole family of girls at risk of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Spurgeons' Invisible Walls
£435,000 21/09/2016
36
Fathers in prison and their families will be supported through this project by helping them improve their parenting and family relationship skills. The project will deliver monthly family homework clubs to enable fathers to support and encourage ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Spurgeons
£235,000 11/02/2016
36
Towards the cost of the Phoenix Project which will support children, young people and their families experiencing (or at risk of) sexual exploitation in eastern and central Birmingham .
National Lottery Community Fund - Spurgeons Phoenix Project
£315,000 04/06/2015
36
This is an expansion of a three year pilot project that aims to support children and young people affected by sexual exploitation. This project will also address the issue by engaging families affected and delivering training for community ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Spurgeons Invisible Walls
£299,848 30/05/2013
36
This is the continuation of a Hampshire project delivered by Spurgeons which aims to improve the lives of children and families affected by fathers imprisonment by giving parenting advice and reducing reoffending rates of fathers upon release. The ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Spurgeons
£81,202 27/02/2013
Towards the cost of the Phoenix Project which will support children, young people and their families experiencing (or at risk of) sexual exploitation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wolverhampton Young Carers Project
£10,000 19/05/2011
12
This is a project by a charity in Northamptonshire serving beneficiaries in Wolverhampton. The group will use the funding to run trips and educational activities for young carers. This will enable beneficiaries to increase their communication, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The 'Sisters' Project
£948,757 05/05/2011
48
'The Sisters Project' is led by Spurgeons based in Wolverhampton and will deliver services across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. It will provide mentors for young women leaving YOIs, ensure they access any counselling they need and practical ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-66
  • ALICIA FOWLER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Bmw Manager
  • CHRISTOPHER PAUL JAMES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
  • COLIN NEAL JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Finance
  • DAVID BUCHAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Trustee
  • DEBORAH ANNE CLINTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director For Vision And Strategy
  • DR TIMOTHY MARK ELWELL-SUTTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • LINDA JANE EMERY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Strategy Consultant
  • LOUISE VIRGINIA WHITEHEAD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Manager
  • MICHAEL VICTOR REBEIRO (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Lawyer
  • MICHELLE YOLANDA BRISSETT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director Of Finance & Resources
  • NICOLA RAYNER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
  • RACHEL WARWICK Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director Of Mobilisation
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/06/2000, number: 1081182
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/05/2000, number: 03990460
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
  • Care Quality Commission
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
  • Investing charity funds 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; AR05: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE D L MOODY TRUST on 31/01/2023
  • Asset transfer in from FEGANS on 27/06/2023
  • Asset transfer in from THE BRENAN REST TRUST on 10/09/2024
Main office

Spurgeons
74 Wellingborough Road
RUSHDEN
NN10 9TY

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECT, WHICH IS CARRIED OUT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHARITY’S CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION AND HISTORY AND IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IS TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, SUPPORT SERVICES, SOCIAL CARE, MAINTENANCE, VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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