Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE 

A membership organisation for early years providers, our charitable purpose is to give children the best start in life by providing services that promote child development and support families especially those in deprived areas. This is achieved through early intervention and family services programmes, advising and representing our members and developing our own settings in deprived communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 21 years

www.eyalliance.org.uk

info@eyalliance.org.uk

02076972500

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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£26,012£26,647£-635£0£6,292£5,4392.498425
31/03/22£26,346£25,952£394£0£7,158£6,39731,05025
31/03/21£22,847£23,674£-827£0£6,227£5,5192.81,200275
31/03/20£27,814£28,376£-562£0£6,479£5,7802.41,322476
31/03/19£29,937£30,967£-1,030£0£7,021£6,0972.41,663500
31/03/18£34,567£35,442£-875£0£7,787£6,7252.32,0290
31/03/17£34,351£35,964£-1,613£0£8,564£7,6382.52,2370
31/03/16£36,108£36,621£-513£0£9,682£9,07632,2620
31/03/15£35,275£35,651£-376£90£10,765£10,3523.51,3450
31/03/14£36,110£35,902£208£104£11,003£10,5023.51,3830
31/03/13£36,732£36,050£682£118£10,774£10,1083.41,4300
31/03/12£37,845£37,353£492£111£10,033£9,42231,5090
31/03/11£41,662£41,747£-85£111£9,502£8,8952.61,5840
31/03/10£40,197£41,555£-1,358£101£9,593£9,0512.61,6110
31/03/09£39,671£40,453£-782£171£10,928£10,3603.11,5960
31/03/08£39,717£39,534£183£166£11,772£11,2233.41,6340
31/03/07£38,497£38,680£-183£206£11,645£8,5112.61,5680
31/03/06£37,844£36,074£1,770£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£32,876£32,658£218£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£28,979£27,283£1,696£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 42%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 984 employees
  • 25 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
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£739,068
National Lottery Community Fund£578,196
Department for Education£54,631
Greater London Authority£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Flying Start Programme- It has a particular focus on those babies and children who are born in areas of the town with the highest levels of disadvantage and poorer outcomes, as we know these families could suffer health inequalities.
£170,000 28/03/2023
Flying Start
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Safe at Home Scheme
£71,700 05/01/2023
Safe at Home Scheme
National Lottery Community Fund - Flying Start Luton Evaluation Costs
£82,283 20/10/2022
Funding will be used to support the evaluation costs for Flying Start Luton a Reaching Communities funded project delivering early years interventions for 0-5 year olds across Luton. The cost of the ....more
Greater London Authority - Pre-School Learning Alliance
£30,000 13/06/2022
This work aims to ensure that the one-stop-shop (OSS) for early years business support on the London Business Hub (www.businesshub.london/early-years) remains active and fit for purpose, with a plan ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Flying Start Luton
£495,913 11/02/2022
The funding will be used to support the project's Flying Start programme of services delivering both universal and targeted early years interventions across Luton. Flying Start would provide early ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Safe at Home Scheme
£77,368 22/12/2020
Grant to Early Years Alliance
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Flying Start
£170,000 22/12/2020
Grant to Early Years Alliance
Department of Health - Pre School Learning Alliance (Lead org in Early Years Alliance partnership)
£21,025 28/08/2020
Grant funding to members of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance for priority project work in support of DHSC, NHS England and Improvement and PHE strategic priorities.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Early Years Alliance
£170,000 08/04/2020
11
Talking Takes Off Community Engagement
Department for Education - Apprenticeships Participation 16 - 18
£20,283 01/04/2020
To fund the provision of apprenticeship training.
Department for Education - Apprenticeships Participation 18+
£34,348 01/04/2020
To fund the provision of apprenticeship training.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Early Years Alliance
£80,000 30/01/2020
11
Safe at Home Scheme
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Early Birds Nursery
£3,429 15/11/2019
We want to improve our nursery by restructuring the playroom to support the development of children's communication and language skills.
County Durham Community Foundation - Growing up Healthy and Safe
£7,622 23/08/2018
To support the Growing up Healthy and Safe project.
National Lottery Community Fund - Eco-adventures Forest School
£9,368 20/04/2018
12
The funding will be used by a pre-school to create a forest school. The facility will also be used to train teachers and early year practitioners in the use of forest schools. The project aims to ....more
Youth Music - Growing Through Music in the Coastal North
£91,155 10/11/2017
Growing Through Music in the Coastal North
Woodward Charitable Trust - Developing and implementing the “Being Dad” practical parenting course
£1,000 04/11/2016
Towards developing and implementing the “Being Dad” practical parenting course for male prisoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Lewisham Family Nutrition Project
£10,000 20/04/2016
12
The group will use the funding to build capacity for its nutritional awareness work through the delivery of staff training. This will create new ambassadors for the organisation’s service ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the “Me and My Dad Programme” for offenders
£4,000 06/08/2015
Towards the “Me and My Dad Programme” for offenders and their children.
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Children, Our Community, Our Future
£40,044,000 12/05/2014
120
Not Available
Woodward Charitable Trust - Story Book Dads and Me and My Dad Project
£3,525 30/01/2014
Towards the “Story Book Dads’” and “Me and my Dad” Project in HMP and YOI Stoke Heath, Shropshire.
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Children, Our Community, Our Future
£199,260 01/08/2013
12
In Southend the Alliance has received £199,260 for plans to develop a centre of excellence that provides support for professionals and volunteers and will integrate mother and infant services and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Flying Start in Luton
£380,000 01/08/2013
8
In Luton the Pre-school Learning Alliance has received a development grant of £380,000 to develop plans to ensure that by the age of three most children are able to communicate and socialise with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Continuation of Parent/Carer Baby and Toddler Support and Development Proje
£497,593 19/09/2012
60
This project will deliver child health and safety training to parents/carers. It will also support child development, decrease isolation and enable parents and children to interact in high-quality ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Pathways
£1,079,542 13/12/2011
60
This project will provide targeted and holistic support to families focussing on children demonstrating anti-social or destructive behaviour as a result of being traumatised by domestic violence or ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Pathways
£10,000 22/06/2011
12
This is a development grant which has been awarded so that the applicant can work up a more detailed application.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Cohesion Worker
£87,290 11/01/2011
48
This project aims to increase community cohesion and inclusion in the deprived wards of Wensley Fold, Beardwood with Lammack and Corporation Park in the Blackburn and Darwen area. The scheme will ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-71
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/03/2003, number: 1096526
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/09/2002, number: 04539003
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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; all on time
Main office

Pre School Learning Alliance
T/A EARLY YEARS ALLIANCE
50 Featherstone Street
LONDON
EC1Y 8RT

Objectives

THE CHARITY WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT HAVING AS ITS OBJECTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY:3.1 PROMOTING THEIR CARE AND SAFETY 3.2 PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND PROMOTING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT3.3 PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING3.4 PROVIDING SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS3.5 PROVIDING SERVICES TO SUPPORT OTHER ORGANISATIONS WITH SIMILAR OBJECTS3.6 PROVIDING SERVICES TO ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS HOLDING MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHARITY’

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

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