Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 3

Accounts overdue -5
Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -6

BARRIER BREAKERS FOUNDATION

We provide soft skills training & development to improve wellbeing, build employability, reduce offending or re-offending, and improve the life chances of disadvantaged individuals, especially of young people. We do this using Barrier Breakers Methodology for Soft Skills Development & Evaluation (BBM), which builds soft skills capacity & produces data to evidence progress.

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Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Latest accounts are overdue for filing
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
05/04/22	£47	£61	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
05/04/21	£11	£5	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
05/04/20	£29	£25	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
05/04/19	£19	£26	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
05/04/18	£27	£8	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	5
05/04/17	£6	£5	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/16	£2	£0	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/15	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/14	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/13	£1	£1	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/12	£1	£0	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/11	£2	£1	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/10	£2	£3	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/09	£3	£19	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/08	£23	£19	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/07	£16	£6	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£18	£16	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£22	£29	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£37	£30	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 23 years

www.barrierbreakersfoundation.org

info@barrierbreakersfoundation.org

02071939852

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Soft Skills to Build Wellbeing
£9,975	18/11/2022	The funding will used to deliver a series of wellbeing workshops for young people from low income and mixed ethnic minority communities. The project aims to address the effects of the pandemic and ....more The funding will used to deliver a series of wellbeing workshops for young people from low income and mixed ethnic minority communities. The project aims to address the effects of the pandemic and reduce isolation loneliness and anxiety rebuilding social skills.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Barrier Breakers Foundation
£4,920	02/11/2021	Soft Skills for Wellbeing at CANDI
National Lottery Community Fund - Soft Skills For Wellbeing Workshops 2022
£9,825	08/10/2021	The funding will be used to deliver a series of skills workshops for young people from black and ethnic minority communities. The project aims to address the effects of bullying anxiety and ....more The funding will be used to deliver a series of skills workshops for young people from black and ethnic minority communities. The project aims to address the effects of bullying anxiety and depression which is experienced by people who are refugees and speak English as a second language.
National Lottery Community Fund - BYB! Extend Reach Expand Offering
£9,936	08/08/2019 19	The funding will be used to extend the reach of current workshops and to pilot a coaching element alongside. The project aims to help disadvantaged young people to fulfil their potential.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Barrier Breakers Foundation
£4,922	05/03/2019	Soft Skills for Employability: workshop series at City & Islington College
National Lottery Community Fund - BYB new series & new facilitators
£9,900	17/01/2018 12	This project will deliver a series of skills workshops for young women who are experiencing the effects of social disadvantage. This will equip them with new skills that will improve their chances in ....more This project will deliver a series of skills workshops for young women who are experiencing the effects of social disadvantage. This will equip them with new skills that will improve their chances in life.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 44-56

LUCILLA DE SARLO Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Digital Consultant & Marketing Strategist

JUDITH CHERRY MBA (Chair), Occupation: Consultant (Equality & Diversi

RALPH REID Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/08/2001, number: 1088253
Registered at Companies House on 07/07/2000, number: 04028871

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; all on time

Main office

Barrier Breakers Foundation
124 City Rd
LONDON
EC1V 2NX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, INCLUDING THROUGH TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS SOFT SKILLS, PRIMARILY USING BARRIER BREAKERS METHODOLOGY FOR SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION (BBM), IN ORDER TO OPTIMISE THE SOFT SKILLS CAPACITY OF INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS, ENVIRONMENTS, AND ACTIVITIES, AND TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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