Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

CRIMINON UNITED KINGDOM 

providing educational life skills courses to offenders and ex-offenders
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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 has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 21 years

www.criminon.org.uk

info@criminon.org.uk

01342316042

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
30/06/23£130£178£-48n/an/an/an/an/a50
30/06/22£119£178£-59n/an/an/an/an/a58
30/06/21£142£170£-28n/an/an/an/an/a51
30/06/20£116£167£-51n/an/an/an/an/a57
30/06/19£290£150£139n/an/an/an/an/a47
30/06/18£630£131£499£4£505£50546.120
30/06/17£110£112£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£82£82£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£48£47£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£49£47£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£32£37£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£47£43£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£23£22£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£27£29£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£17£18£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£16£16£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£15£14£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06*£14£14£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05*£11£12£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£17£13£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 50 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Criminon UK
£2,125 28/04/2023
to support the delivery of free distance-learning courses for 25 serving young offenders (aged 18-25), covering subjects such as drug awareness, literacy, effective communication and creating a clear ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Criminon UK
£250 08/07/2021
As directed by the donor towards the work of the organisation in improving the social welfare of offenders by assisting them in their education and rehabilitation, so that they can make a positive ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Criminon UK
£7,740 13/06/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing distance learning courses to prisoners in HMP Gartree and HMP Stocken in Leicestershire
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Criminon UK
£2,050 08/12/2016
towards one year's running costs of a project providing distance learning courses to prisoners in HMP Gartree and HMP Stockton in Leicestershire

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/06/2003, number: 1098120
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/06/2003, number: 04801751
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 46 days late, AR05: 58 days late,
Main office

Criminon UK
PO Box 200
East Grinstead
RH19 4GL

Objectives

TO REFORM AND REHABILITATE PERSONS WHO ARE FOR THE TIME BEING OR WHO HAVE AT ANY TIME BEEN DRUG ADDICTS;TO ASSIST IN THE REFORMATION AND REHABILITATION OF PERSONS WHO HAVE AT ANY TIME BEEN CONVICTED (WHETHER IN THE UNTIED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE) OF ANY CRIME;TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN DEPENDENT UPON OR AFFECTED BY THE USE OF DRUGS ABOUT ALL MATTERS RELATING TO DRUG ABUSE/ADDICTION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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