Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

UNFOLD 

Unfold gets people where they want to be. Powered by volunteers, our one-to-one mentoring is for young people aged 10 - 25 and women with children over 5. Open to everyone, we target those who face the most challenges,with specialised programmes for refugees, peer support groups for women. Goal-focused, we boost confidence and well-being, connecting people to their community for lasting impact.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • 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:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 24 years

www.unfold.org.uk

hello@unfold.org.uk

07591405514

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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£390£373£17n/an/an/an/an/a243
31/03/22£244£223£22n/an/an/an/an/a184
31/03/21£261£149£112n/an/an/an/an/a96
31/03/20£128£97£30n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/19£118£100£18n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/18£103£95£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£169£170£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£163£290£-127£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£282£280£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£314£264£50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£282£229£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£266£277£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£211£380£-169£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£371£339£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£276£252£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£251£258£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£278£203£75£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£204£168£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£162£173£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£153£150£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 243 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
John Lyon's Charity£80,000
DCMS£49,899
Westminster Foundation£26,064
The Linbury Trust£15,000
The Childhood Trust£15,000
City Bridge Trust£9,964
Co-Operative Group£6,102
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Linbury Trust - core work - Unfold
£15,000 13/12/2023
One off donation towards core work.
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Unfold
£5,000 02/02/2023
Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Westminster Befriend a Family
£75,000 16/06/2021
Youth and Family Support
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Westminster Befriend a Family
£9,964 15/12/2020
0
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Westminster Befriend a Family
£2,921 24/10/2020
We would like to match young people with mentors so they can be supported in school, social challenges and work experience opportunities.
The Childhood Trust - Not home alone: Mentoring and Befriending
£15,000 03/07/2020
Westminster Befriend a Family is providing critical social, emotional and practical support in the Coronavirus epidemic, online and over the phone. Our team of dedicated volunteers is expanding to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,899 03/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£26,064 14/05/2020
6
Mastering My Future 2.0', mentoring workshops (Covid-19)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Westminster Befriend a Family
£3,181 15/11/2019
We want to provide a Christmas party and summer away day for families living in poverty.
London Catalyst - Westminster Befriend a Family - 2
£2,500 13/11/2019
Reach Out - Enhancing signposting and referral in mentoring and befriending
National Lottery Community Fund - Access to Training
£8,600 29/11/2018
12
The project will train volunteers through an online training portal. The aim is to increase family support.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Westminster Befriend A Family
£20,000 08/12/2016
12
over one year towards the core running costs of an organisation supporting vulnerable families in the London Borough of Westminster
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Westminster Befriend A Family
£64,500 11/10/2016
36
This project will offer academic support to young people living in a disadvantaged area and who may also be living within low-income households. They will benefit through improved academic ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2013
£5,000 18/12/2013
200 Volunteers support 120 children and their families living in long-term temporary accommodation (up to 10 years). Volunteers provide a home-visiting service and also provide weekly community-based ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Westminster Befriend a Family
£30,000 31/05/2013
Westminster Befriend a Family supports vulnerable and isolated families in Westminster. It provides individual family support, young peoples activities and parent coaching classes. The Senior Project ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Westminster Befriend A Family
£120,000 21/11/2012
36
The project will offer a support and befriending service for disadvantaged and vulnerable children and YP (aged up to 16 years) delivered by volunteer university students and retired professionals ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Westminster Befriend a Family
£20,000 14/03/2012
24
towards two years' continuation funding of the running costs of a volunteer project to provide family support services in the London Borough of Westminster
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards costs of the Homeless Families Project
£2,000 14/02/2012
Towards costs of the Homeless Families Project which reduces isolation and improves living conditions.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Westminster Befriend a Family
£10,000 21/05/2008
12
Towards Unrestricted core costs Toward core costs to provide befriending, mentoring and family support to families with children aged 0-8 years.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 27-57
  • JACK ROWAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Civil Servant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/09/2000, number: 1082452
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/05/2000, number: 04002287
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • 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; AR17: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

Unfold
8
10 Grosvenor Gardens
London

Objectives

(I) TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;(II) TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO, OR MALTREATMENT OF, CHILDREN;(III) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;(IV) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CARE WITHIN THE AREA OF WESTMINSTER AND ITS ENVIRONS

Defined Area of Benefit:

WESTMINSTER

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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