Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

SOUTH OF ENGLAND FOUNDATION 

Charlton Athletic Community Trust works with all people regardless of their background, etnicity, economic status or physical ability. Its legal objectives are to promote any charitable purpose for the community and in particular those living and working in the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Bexley, other parts of South East England and outside the UK
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 21 years

www.cact.org.uk

mark.gregory@cact.org.uk

020 8850 2866

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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£6,887£6,676£211£187£2,884£1,8433.321637
31/03/22£6,371£6,422£-51£146£1,993£1,2312.322620
31/03/21£5,598£5,374£224£130£1,840£1,1062.518968
31/03/20£5,576£6,021£-445£200£1,787£1,2222.421520
31/03/19£5,284£5,586£-302£276£2,176£1,6053.420927
31/03/18£5,430£5,445£-15£232£2,474£1,8564.11880
31/03/17£6,956£5,574£1,382£87£2,456£1,7463.81930
31/03/16£5,513£5,825£-312£87£1,248£4560.92280
31/03/15£5,643£5,755£-112£118£1,380£48711030
31/03/14£4,946£5,435£-489£198£1,542£4721910
31/03/13£4,970£4,600£370£229£2,132£7642390
31/03/12?£3,675£3,698£-23£182£1,763£4301.41420
28/02/11£3,450£3,113£337£181£1,785£4161.61480
28/02/10£2,739£2,644£95£170£1,449£2961.31290
28/02/09£2,381£2,541£-161£152£1,354£3231.51300
29/02/08*£2,564£1,960£604£162£1,514£2281.41260
28/02/07*£895£280£615£116£911£28612.310
28/02/06£188£297£-110£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/05*£65£136£-71£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/04*£508£31£476£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 64%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Kent,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 216 employees
  • 37 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
BBC Children in Need£104,999
Department of Health£35,000
The Childhood Trust£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Hyde Charitable Trust - Booster Fund 2022/23
£2,707 09/03/2023
Booster Fund 2022/23
The Childhood Trust - C-59098
£5,000 28/06/2022
This project will help us to provide healthy and nutritious meals on CACT's tutoring programmes and summer holiday camps for children and young people from disadvantaged communities.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£1,000 03/12/2021
This project will provide training and mentoring to a project worker who will deliver money management sessions to disadvantaged children. Children will improve their life skills through developing ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£1,764 23/10/2021
We will provide children, young people, the elderly and disadvantaged with essentials such as clothes, food, and personal hygiene/haircuts, so they can participate in our programmes, school and work.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£100,499 10/08/2021
This project will deliver mentoring and talk therapy to young people experiencing poverty and at risk of gang exploitation in Thanet. The activities will result in increased educational engagement, ....more
Sport England - Toyota Parasport CACT Upbeats
£4,830 03/08/2021
5
Funding under Sport England's Toyota Parasport Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Toyota Parasport CACT Upbeats. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 30/07/2021
Empowering Communities and Changing Lives in South East London and Kent
The Childhood Trust - Food for children in the summer holidays
£5,000 22/06/2021
Help us provide healthy, nutritious meals to children and young people in Greenwich this summer holiday. Children and young people eligible for free school meals will be offered breakfast and a ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£3,500 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund mentoring provision mostly on the doorstep to the most vulnerable children and young people, living in increasing poverty during COVID-19, who are not accessing online ....more
Department of Health - Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£35,000 28/04/2020
Competitive Grants Scheme on Social PrescribingNeed review after Q2 for COVID19 impactBAU Yr 3 of 3 - £ 925,000Chnaged to Section 70 for 20/21 was previously Section 64
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£3,737 15/11/2019
We want to run residential trips for people in our community accessing mental health services, to improve confidence and reduce isolation.
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing - Social Prescribing Fund -Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£87,500 01/04/2019
An intervention through which people are supported to access non-medical services in the community.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£139,650 27/06/2018
36
Mentoring for 160 young people who have disengaged from education and are at risk of involvement in criminal activity. Through 1:1 support, young people will develop better decision-making skills, ....more
Department of Health - Health and Wellbeing - Social Prescribing Fund -Charlton Athletic Community Trust
£175,000 01/04/2018
An intervention through which people are supported to access non-medical services in the community.
Ministry of Defence - Local Grants 2017/18
£18,555 01/04/2017
Community Integration and Local Service Delivery
Sport England - Integration Through Sport
£100,000 15/11/2013
Funding under Sport England's IntegrationThrough Sport Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Integration Through Sport'. This project lists its main activity as Sport Participation and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Recovery to Wellbeing
£147,990 17/01/2013
36
The continuation of an existing project run by South of England Foundation in partnership with the Kent and Oxley NHS Trusts and the mental health charity Time to Change, which works with young ....more
Sport England - Bexley Youth Impact Project
£15,000 20/05/2011
Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Bexley Youth Impact Project'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-71
  • MARILYN TOFT Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Education Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/02/2003, number: 1096222
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/02/2003, number: 04654582
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
  • Investment
  • 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; AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 129 days late, AR05: 348 days late, AR04: 103 days late,
Main office

Charlton Athletic FC Ltd
Training Ground
Sparrows Lane
LONDON
SE9 2JR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, AND IN PARTICULARTHOSE PEOPLE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS INCLUDING GREENWICH,BEXLEY AND BROMLEY, OTHER PARTS OF SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND AND OUTSIDE THE UK,AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:(A) TO DELIVER INITIATIVES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY DESIGNED TO LESSEN THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION CAUSED BY POVERTY, OLD AGE, DISABLEMENT, HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION.(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, INCLUDING SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, ACCREDITED AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING, THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS AND ADULT EDUCATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.(C) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATIONFOR THOSE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF UNIVERSAL AND TARGETED PROGRAMMES.(D) TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY THROUGH WORKING WITH KEY PARTNERS AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS.(E) TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.(F) TO PROMOTE HARMONY BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT ETHNIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREENWICH, BEXLEY, SOUTH EAST ENGLAND.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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