Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

HEADWAY EAST LONDON 

The objectives of the charity are the relief, continuing rehabilitation and support of people who have suffered head injury or brain injury through illness or accident and their spouses, partners or relatives who have an unpaid responsibility for their daily care and treatment.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 23 years

www.headwayeastlondon.org

anna.mcewen@headwayeastlondon.org

020 7749 7790

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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£2,005£2,067£-61£134£595£5012.95535
31/03/22£1,884£1,846£37£92£657£4873.25616
31/03/21£1,767£1,766£1£84£619£5253.65741
31/03/20£1,873£1,914£-41£72£618£4993.14361
31/03/19£1,819£1,910£-92£52£659£5413.44379
31/03/18£1,905£1,730£175£51£751£6494.5400
31/03/17£1,650£1,584£66£50£576£4583.5360
31/03/16£1,414£1,480£-66£54£510£3723360
31/03/15£1,232£1,283£-50£78£576£4444.2280
31/03/14£1,213£1,088£125£69£626£4194.6220
31/03/13£1,147£1,058£89£76£501£3023.4210
31/03/12£909£971£-62£73£413£2192.7200
31/03/11£886£925£-39£64£475£2493.2190
31/03/10£828£827£1£51£514£2453.6210
31/03/09£840£758£82£106£513£2423.8160
31/03/08£821£547£274£75£431£2375.2140
31/03/07£528£478£50£111£157£1473.7140
31/03/06£436£409£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£299£299£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£226£215£12£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 6.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 84%
Reserves/Spending: 2.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 55 employees
  • 35 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

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 Community Fund£389,976
National Lottery Heritage Fund£193,300
City Bridge Trust£146,590
Henry Smith Charity£142,900
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Headway East London
£193,300 08/03/2023
25 Years of Headway East London: A journey of discovery
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Headway East London - 16/11/22
£3,000 20/12/2022
Core Funding
City Bridge Trust - Eco audit to Headway East London
£2,800 21/10/2022
£2,800 (7 days) to provide an eco-audit.
Sport England - Toyota Parasport Get Physical Together
£5,000 24/01/2022
Funding under Sport England's Toyota Parasport Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Toyota Parasport Get Physical Together. This project is a Adapted Sport project, with a focus on ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Impact: Outcomes measurement for brain injury survivors
£9,976 07/01/2022
The funding will be used to implement a new outcomes measurement system for members that have survived brain injury. The project aims to equip the organisation to monitor progress establish goals and ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Headway East London - 01/10/21
£1,500 19/10/2021
Public Engagement Project for Brain Injury Survivors
London Catalyst - Headway East London - 10
£750 23/09/2021
Hardship Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 25/06/2021
Community Support Worker Service for brain injury survivors
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Headway East London
£5,000 02/12/2020
12
Covid additional main grant unrestricted core costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,000 11/08/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Headway East London
£41,560 28/05/2020
A grant of £41,560 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Headway East London
£142,900 07/05/2020
36
towards three years' salary and running costs of a 'Day Service Project' which provides 1:1 key work, social opportunities and peer support and fulfilling activities to survivors of acquired brain ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Headway East London
£102,230 25/07/2019
24
£102,230 over two further and final years (£50,300, £51,930) towards the costs of the Artist Studio, including salaries, on costs, art materials, marketing the work and enhancing public awareness.
National Lottery Community Fund - Headway East London - Casework Project
£380,000 30/05/2019
48
The project will use the funding to partly fund the salary of a full-time case work manger, one full-time case worker, one full-time assistant case worker, as well as general running expenses, ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Headway East London
£16,000 16/10/2018
refurbishments to a premises for a charity which works with people with disabilities in London
London Catalyst - Headway East London - 7
£3,000 06/02/2018
Member-Led Training (MLT) Programme
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Headway East London
£60,000 09/03/2017
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
London Catalyst - Headway East London - 4
£3,000 10/05/2016
Special Interest
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Headway East London
£146,000 18/03/2016
36
£146,000 over 3 years (£46,600, £48,600, £50,800) towards the costs of establishing a flagship studio, marketing the work and enhancing public awareness.
National Lottery Community Fund - First Steps for Survivors
£446,956 23/02/2015
48
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Headway East London
£96,800 13/06/2012
36
towards three years' salaries of a Physiotherapist, Psychotherapist and Occupational Therapist to provide support to people with acquired brain injury in east London
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-60
  • GLEN HODGSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Healthcare
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/12/2000, number: 1083910
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/05/2000, number: 03998925
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Headway East London
238 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8AX

Objectives

THE RELIEF, CONTINUING REHABILITATION AND SUPPORT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEAD INJURY OR BRAIN DAMAGE THROUGH ILLNESS OR ACCIDENT AND THEIR SPOUSES PARTNERS OR RELATIVES WHO HAVE AN UNPAID RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR DAILY CARE AND TREATMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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