Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

YOUTH ACTION ALLIANCE 

The charity works across the Golborne area of London and the main focus is to provide detached youth work provision for young people aged 13 to 19 in this area. The charity works to provide additional support and learning opportunities as part of a young persons natural process of development through their transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 23 years

c_alkaff@yahoo.com

02089643149

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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£494£555£-61n/an/an/an/an/a59
31/03/22£490£351£138n/an/an/an/an/a59
31/03/21£327£256£71n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£193£207£-14n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£237£227£10n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18*£189£185£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£120£115£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£136£137£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£191£191£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£222£203£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£188£193£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£130£126£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£62£65£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£73£76£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£65£78£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£63£72£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£66£72£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£108£120£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£102£98£4£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 16%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brent, Kensington And Chelsea,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 59 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
National Lottery Community Fund£448,332
John Lyon's Charity£133,300
DCMS£81,247
City Bridge Trust£32,296
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
CHK Foundation£20,000
Sport England£5,472
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Youth Action Alliance
£4,000 17/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to YAA
£1,880 21/06/2022
towards the cost of a day trip to Go Ape for children from the Traveller Community in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 02/07/2021
Cultivating and sustaining communities - revenue/core costs
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£15,000 27/04/2021
to support specified work
National Lottery Community Fund - Cultivating and sustaining communities
£398,394 15/03/2021
36
The project is using funding to provide detached youth work provision for young people aged 13-19 in Golborne. The project delivers street-based targeted group work and projects for young people to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Youth Action Alliance
£3,896 15/12/2020
0
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£81,247 05/10/2020
"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 Youth Action Alliance
£28,400 11/09/2020
towards the costs of one additional senior youth worker (including a pro rata of management, admin and activities costs) plus the costs of food, premises deep clean and digital upgrade (but not the ....more
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Youth Action Alliance
£5,300 13/08/2020
12
Staying Connected Summer
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Youth Action Alliance
£120,000 18/06/2020
36
Core salary costs
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£5,472 01/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project is a Sport participation and capacity building project, with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Staying Connected - COVID - 19
£49,938 11/05/2020
6
The funding will be used to provide vital one-to-one support to some of the most vulnerable children young people and families in North Kensington who are not able to access mainstream education due ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Youth Action Alliance
£4,800 09/04/2020
The funding is to provide traveller and other vulnerable families we already work with, with access to vital food and other resources.
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£5,000 01/04/2020
to support work undertaken with vulnerable young people during the COVID lockdown
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Youth Action Alliance
£4,000 17/06/2019
12
Stable Way Summer
Greater London Authority - Young Londoners Fund
£149,139 07/01/2019
The Market gives opportunities for young people with offending histories to access employment. Working creatively and collaboratively on three market stalls will provide 16-21-year olds not only with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - North Kensington Community Youth Festival
£42,680 12/01/2018
6
North Kensington Community Youth Festival
National Lottery Community Fund - North Kensington Community Youth Festival
£12,484 01/08/2017
12
This group planned a football tournament and community day at Westway Sports (which is situated opposite Grenfell Towers) for local residents and residents of the Grenfell Tower to come together and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/06/2001, number: 1086902
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR18: 100 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR14: 138 days late, AR13: 113 days late, AR09: 81 days late, AR08: 480 days late, AR07: 846 days late, AR06: 1211 days late, AR05: 1576 days late,
Main office

Youth Action Alliance
202 Wornington Road
London
W10 5RE

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12-25 YEARS WHO LIVE IN THE GOLBORNE WARD OF THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA:THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO THAT THEY MAY DEVELOP THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GOLBORNE WARD OF THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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