Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

THE 999 CLUB AND LADY FLORENCE TRUST 

THE 999 CLUB AND LADY FLORENCE TRUST PROVIDES SERVICES FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE. FROM OUR CENTRE IN DEPTFORD WE RUN AN OPEN ACCESS SERVICE FOR ROUGH SLEEPERS AND THE HOMELESS, A WELFARE ADVICE SERVICE, EMPLOYMENT ADVICE AND SUPPORT, AND A NIGHT SHELTER THAT IS OPEN ALL YEAR.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
  • 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
31/08/23£1,359£1,323£36£99£3,517£2,24320.42869
31/08/22£916£1,060£-144£103£3,481£2,23725.31650
31/08/21£990£1,123£-133£151£3,624£2,34425.11652
31/08/20£1,683£1,070£613£118£3,757£2,33526.218153
31/08/19£1,075£930£145£77£3,144£1,80323.316110
31/08/18£855£771£83£85£2,999£1,67826.1150
31/08/17*£753£793£-40£71£2,916£1,53223.2110
31/08/16£694£673£21£58£2,956£1,55427.780
31/08/15*£556£625£-68£69£218£831.690
31/08/14?£415£369£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£627£520£107£52£197£461.1110
31/12/12£563£528£34£28£90£410.9150
31/12/11£525£570£-44£26£56£130.3140
31/12/10£479£556£-77£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£542£538£4£52£178£952.1130
31/12/08£604£562£42£52£173£791.7140
31/12/07£470£526£-56£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£370£446£-75£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£308£471£-163£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£472£412£60£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 64%
Reserves/Spending: 20.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 9.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 22 years

www.999club.org

office@999club.org

02086945797

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Shelter for homeless, vulnerable & excluded people
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lewisham,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports 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£506,519
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£175,000
City Bridge Trust£67,650
Lloyds Bank Foundation£67,250
Garfield Weston Foundation£55,000
The London Community Foundation£40,304
The Linbury Trust£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Core work - 999 Club
£15,000 13/12/2023
One off donation towards core work.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to 999 Club and Lady Florence Trust
£85,000 29/06/2023
Funding to continue and expand the services for homeless, insecurely housed and other vulnerable women.
National Lottery Community Fund - Changing Lives
£496,519 01/02/2023
This funding will enable the development of a new service: Changing Lives that will work with 120 people in Lewisham and Greenwich who have experienced homelessness across the life cycle of the ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to The 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - Confidence Resilience & Skills Programme
£10,000 15/08/2022
The funding will be used to run a peer support and personal development programme for people who have been homeless. The project aims to help people to develop their skills and confidence and to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
£50,000 29/07/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of The 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£25,000 18/03/2022
36
Unrestricted core costs
London Catalyst - 999 Club - 9
£1,500 11/05/2021
Hardship Fund
Tudor Trust - Grant to 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
£2,000 14/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
City Bridge Trust - Grant to 999 Club
£67,650 14/12/2020
£67,650 for a further and final two years (£33,125; £34,525) for the salary and on-costs of a f/t Senior Advice Worker to provide an advice service to people experiencing homelessness or in ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The 999 Club
£9,844 01/10/2020
To revamp and re-open our Gateway Day Centre which is a vital hub for homeless people in South London. Here people can get a hot meal, a shower, do laundry, see a GP, get advice with benefits. We ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,844 01/10/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to The 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
£15,000 23/07/2020
Grant to The 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The 999 Club
£30,460 30/06/2020
This funding is for new work in response to Covid-19 supporting 110 homeless people through 12 weeks of lockdown with emergency poverty relief, outreach and digital infrastructure. Costs for three ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 05/06/2020
Homelessness Prevention and Relief
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to 999 Club and Lady Florence Trust
£90,000 29/01/2020
24
Funding towards core costs to enable the delivery of a night shelter and day centre.
National Lottery Community Fund - Homelessness Prevention and Sustainable Housing Project
£412,080 30/05/2019
36
The project will use the funding to develop the 999 Club's existing work to support homeless people in Lewisham. They will also take a 'housing led' approach and will focus on re-housing individuals ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
£75,000 30/11/2017
36
towards the salary of the CEO
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The 999 Club and Lady Florence Trust
£123,840 15/06/2017
36
£123,840 over 3 years (£40,465, £41,275, £42,100) for the salary of a Senior Advice Worker (including on costs)
Tudor Trust - Grant to 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
£100,000 08/03/2017
36
over three years to employ one of two asset coaches to focus on the Personal Transition Service (developed by the Mayday Trust) to work with people affected by homelessness in Lewisham and South ....more
Comic Relief - Steps away from the street: Building a Better Future
£20,000 30/11/2016
24
The 999 Club has been supporting people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Lewisham since 1992 and supports around 1000 people per year through its Gateway Centre. The Club provides a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Move on Up
£360,072 09/03/2016
36
This project will combat homelessness for homeless people and those at risk of homelessness living in Lewisham, Bromley, Southwark and Greenwich. At the day centre beneficiaries will be fully ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The 999 Club Trust and Lady Florence Trust
£15,000 12/11/2014
The 999 Club, based in Deptford, works with people with multiple problems and chaotic lifestyles, who are usually homeless. This grant request is for a management information system, PQASSO stage 1 ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to 999 Club
£75,000 05/12/2013
36
towards three years' core costs of an organisation providing support services to deprived residents in the London Borough of Lewisham
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The 999 Club and Lady Florence Trust
£20,000 04/10/2011
Towards core costs, to enable people excluded from statutory and voluntary services through their mental needs, addictions and abusive relationships to be engaged with the care they need.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The 999 Club and Lady Florence Trust
£20,000 17/12/2008
24
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards core costs to run three centres for vulnerable people.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-57
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/03/2002, number: 1091077
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/06/2001, number: 04238295
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR17: 3 days late, AR15: 104 days late,
Main office

THE 999 CLUB
21 DEPTFORD BROADWAY
LONDON
SE8 4PA

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE:-(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF AN ADVICE AND COUNSELLING SERVICE.(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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