Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

TOWER HAMLETS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS 

Advocacy and Befriending service for socially isolated and lonely older people living in the borough of Tower Hamlets
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

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 recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 21 years

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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£128£207£-79n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/22*£250£186£64n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/21£250£186£64n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/20£176£181£-4n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/19£196£205£-9n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/18£224£218£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£202£191£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£193£191£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£235£234£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£200£209£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£196£192£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£208£207£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£195£193£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£196£195£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£196£195£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£191£188£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£156£180£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£159£180£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£182£188£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£154£39£115£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 18 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
City Bridge Trust£229,016
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£5,813
CAF£5,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours
£4,000 30/09/2022
Befriending services for older people
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends & Neighbours
£196,440 24/06/2020
£196,440 over 5 years (£40,840; £36,980; £39,340; £39,440; £39,840) for salary, volunteers’ expenses and management costs.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends & Neighbours
£32,576 05/06/2020
£32,576 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid 19 Telebuddy Scheme
£5,813 22/05/2020
4
The funding will be used to run a telephone befriending service for older people.
CAF - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends And Neighbours
£5,000 15/04/2020
3
Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends And Neighbours to support the organisation through COVID19
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours
£150,000 11/09/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing befriending, advocacy and support for older people in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£30,000 28/05/2019
Older Peoples Befriending Project
London Catalyst - Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours - 3
£3,000 13/11/2018
Befriending and Advocacy Improves Lives (BAIL)
National Lottery Community Fund - Activities for Health in Elders
£10,000 22/06/2018
12
The funding will be used to provide practical and emotional support to older people. The project aims to improve mental and physical wellbeing for people living in social isolation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours
£2,967 29/11/2017
We want to befriend lonely older people, visit them on a regular basis and take them outings so they can make new friends and reconnect.
National Lottery Community Fund - Befriending & Advocacy Project
£293,378 04/04/2016
36
A project to support isolated older people, including those with complex physical and mental health problems, such as dementia and depression. The scheme will offer long-term befriending support at ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends & Neighbours
£45,000 08/09/2015
24
over two years as continuation funding towards core costs, including salaries, for a charity providing older people with befriending and advocacy support in Tower Hamlets, East London
Dunhill Medical Trust - Befriending and Advocacy Service
£93,528 07/09/2015
36
Befriending and Advocacy Service for older people, to ensure older people in LB Tower Hamlets are not alone, have the opportunity to go out and meet other people, and have access to health care and ....more
London Catalyst - Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours - 2
£8,000 19/11/2014
Core costs - assessment of the impact of loneliness on health amongst the elderly
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours
£79,500 14/03/2013
36
towards three years' running costs of a befriending and healthcare project for older people in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Nationwide Foundation - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends & Neighbours
£4,910 06/02/2012
Salary costs of befriending workers who provide financial and housing advice to isolated and vulnerable older people.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours
£36,900 28/07/2011
the salary of the Volunteer Co-ordinator and associated costs (recruitment, CRB, training, travel and office costs)
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-72
  • NANCY EASTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Operations
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/09/2003, number: 1099403
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/02/2003, number: 04657449
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR22: 3 days late,
Main office

ST. MARGARETS HOUSE SETTLEMENT
21 OLD FORD ROAD
LONDON
E2 9PL

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS, AMONG THOSE RESIDENT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FORMER BOROUGH OF STEPNEY AND MORE GENERALLY GREATER LONDON, BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH SUPPORT (IN PARTICULAR TO THE ELDERLY, ISOLATED AND VULNERABLE) AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME CONSIDER APPROPRIATE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE FORMER BOROUGH OF STEPNEY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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