Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

XLP 

XLP is working to create positive futures for young people in London.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 20 years

www.xlp.org.uk

info@xlp.org.uk

02072566240

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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
31/08/22£2,319£1,939£380£111£1,583£814549100
31/08/21£2,045£1,501£544£101£1,204£5844.740150
31/08/20£1,845£1,494£351£114£660£3422.840141
31/08/19£1,899£1,903£-3£178£309£161147150
31/08/18£2,195£2,146£49£189£429£3041.741130
31/08/17£1,894£1,858£36£208£380£3592.3410
31/08/16£1,576£1,496£80£218£344£3212.6350
31/08/15£1,387£1,373£15£177£264£1501.3350
31/08/14£1,247£1,241£6£133£249£1911.9300
31/08/13£1,078£1,173£-95£104£243£1511.5230
31/08/12£1,042£1,033£9£91£337£2412.8230
31/08/11£991£910£81£81£328£2253230
31/08/10£816£755£61£83£247£1923210
31/08/09?£678£606£71£66£186£1643.2170
29/02/08£306£357£-51£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/07?£491£420£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/05£184£171£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/04£36£0£36£0£0£0NAN00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 51%
Reserves/Spending: 5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 4.7
Asset Split ?
Comment: - Unrestricted reserves decreased from £358,779 to £304,195 during the 2018 financial year. Of this, £162,295 is a designated reserve relating to motor vehicles, leaving general (“free”) reserves at the end of the year of £141,900 compared with £193,463 at the end of the financial year 2017

Source: Giving is Great

Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden, City Of London, Greenwich, Hackney, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 49 employees
  • 100 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£617,300
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£380,000
National Lottery Community Fund£373,970
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
Comic Relief£113,625
DCMS£100,000
Haberdashers' Company£56,717
Suffolk Community Foundation£33,200
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to XLP
£614,500 04/03/2024
£614,500 over five years (£112,100, £117,400, £123,000, £128,300, £133,700) towards keeping young people in schools and out of criminal gangs through a Community Bus Project, Mentoring for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - MH XLP Youth Summer Programme
£10,000 14/07/2023
The funding will be used to deliver weekly activities for vulnerable young people aged 11-18 during the school holidays including sports music recording dance and cooking sessions and a week of ....more
Haberdashers' Company - Major Grant 2022_23
£50,000 11/05/2023
Exclusion Reduction Programme, Literacy and Numeracy Tutoring
Haberdashers' Company - Uplift grant
£5,000 10/05/2023
Contribution to core costs in Cost of Living crisis
Haberdashers' Company - City Giving Day 2022
£1,717 19/10/2022
Unrestricted contribution to Major Grant holders
City Bridge Trust - Eco audit to XLP
£2,800 24/06/2022
£2,800 (7 days) to provide an eco-audit.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to XLP
£330,000 03/03/2022
Supporting young people as they transition from school to further education and employment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Keeping young people in schools and out of gangs
£240,000 30/09/2021
The project is using funding to develop and expand two of their existing core programmes; Community Bus Project and Exclusion Reduction Programme. The project aims to engage with young people aged ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£30,000 20/08/2021
Keeping Young people in School and out of gangs
Youth Music - XLP Arts and Mobile Music Project
£25,888 25/06/2021
XLP Arts and Mobile Music Project
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to XLP
£4,400 01/06/2021
12
The grant will be used for the core projects costs of XLP.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to XLP
£29,000 25/05/2021
purchase of a vehicle for a charity supporting disavantaged young people in London
Trust for London - XLP
£7,000 03/03/2021
The funding is for our Exclusion Reduction Programme which is aimed to help those at risk of exclusion to remain in school and engage in education. The three strands of this programme are youth ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to XLP (The Excel Project)
£20,000 26/02/2021
Expansion of XLP X-Mobile Project
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Covid-19 London Community Response Renewal Grant - Wave 5
£50,000 23/02/2021
12
To support core funding to enable the organisation to extend its Exclusion Reduction Programme.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to XLP
£10,000 06/10/2020
5
XLP Lewisham Mentoring and Community Project
Comic Relief - XL-Sports Project
£113,625 15/09/2020
This project will help children and young people in the 9 most impoverished inner-city boroughs of London. CYP who live in these neighbourhoods face the symptoms of structural poverty including low ....more
The Childhood Trust - XLP - 2020 Mentoring and Community Programme
£5,000 03/07/2020
XLP will provide some of the most vulnerable young people in London with vital support throughout the Covid-19 crisis. We will mentor and provide activities for young people who have poor mental ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£100,000 03/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to XLP
£14,400 29/06/2020
12
The grant will be used for the core projects costs of XLP.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£10,000 19/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to XLP
£4,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund additional staffing costs to support young people affected by poverty and deprivation and behavioural difficulties who are isolated due to Covid-19, this funding will ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to XLP
£150,000 19/03/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a mentoring project aimed at helping disadvantaged, at risk, young people in Inner-London
National Lottery Community Fund - XLP Arts Showcase Project
£123,970 27/09/2019
11
XLP Arts Showcase Project
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to XLP
£30,000 04/07/2019
12
To support XLP’s Mentoring Project in Greenwich, using volunteers to help young people improve their life-skills, relationships, and opportunities.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to XLP
£14,400 19/06/2019
12
Core project costs
BBC Children in Need - Grant to XLP
£28,044 15/03/2019
36
This project will provide weekly football coaching and group mentoring sessions for young people living in deprived areas in Hackney and Greenwich. The sessions will improve behaviours, build ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2018
£7,500 04/12/2018
The project supports young people in the most disadvantaged areas of inner London, who are at risk of educational failure and negative influences in their communities, to access the performing arts, ....more
Greater London Authority - XLP Summer Activity Programme
£10,000 06/08/2018
A 4 to 6 week programme involving sports; specifically coaching/training sessions, swimming activities, healthy eating and life skills sessions. Two weeks will be solely dedicated to sports. The ....more
LandAid Charitable Trust - XLP Mentoring project - part 2
£25,000 25/06/2018
12
The grant will go towards the 2018/19 salary of the Greenwich XL-Mentoring coordinator.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£75,000 15/09/2017
XL-R8 Community Bus Project
National Lottery Community Fund - XLP XL-R8 Community Bus Project
£319,378 26/07/2017
36
This group aims to develop their project, which provides high quality-long-term support to young people between the ages of 10 and 18, living in inner-London estates, and who are at risk of becoming ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - XLP XL-Mentoring Project
£380,494 14/12/2016
36
The group aims to improve the life chances of disaffected and disengaged children and young people through improved behaviours, self-esteem and life skills, helping them to re-engage with education. ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to XLP
£90,000 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a one-to-one mentoring project aimed at helping disadvantaged, at risk, young people in the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to XLP
£90,000 11/10/2016
36
This project will provide one to one/group support for young people at risk of school exclusion to develop improved life skills, re-engage with education, employment or training and improve ....more
LandAid Charitable Trust - Mentoring programme
£60,762 20/09/2016
11
Continuation and development of effective individual and group mentoring programme currently running at full capacity with a waiting list.
National Lottery Community Fund - XLP Arts Showcase Project
£338,737 02/12/2015
36
This is a continuation of an existing project to provide support for children and young people growing up in inner city London who are struggling with behavioural and educational issues, using the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to XLP
£115,000 01/04/2015
36
Towards core costs of an organisation that provides intensive one-to-one and group work support for 'at risk' young people and their families in their schools and within their communities.
National Lottery Community Fund - XL-R8 Community Bus Project
£245,196 05/05/2014
30
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to XLP
£90,000 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' running costs of a mentoring project for disadvantaged and at risk young people in the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets
National Lottery Community Fund - XLP XL-Mentoring Project
£305,825 30/05/2013
36
Expansion of an existing project by XLP (the Excel Project) for disadvantaged young people in the Southwark, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets areas of inner London. Its aim is to enable them to make wise ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to XLP
£120,000 19/10/2011
Towards core costs for XLP's work alleviating gang involvement in southeast London.
National Lottery Community Fund - XL-R8 Community Bus Project
£498,865 08/03/2011
36
Youth workers and volunteer teams will offer after-school and holiday provision using 2 specially equipped fully accessible double-decker buses. The two buses will be used north and south of the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-70
  • SURU DOUGLAS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Communications Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/12/2003, number: 1101095
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/11/2003, number: 04959458
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from RISE CHURCH on 03/11/2020
Main office

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83 London Wall
London
EC2M 5ND

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS TO INCLUDE:(1) EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF A GENERAL NATURE;(2) EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE APPRECIATION AND PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE OF THE ARTS;(3) EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN VALUES; AND(4) PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ALL SUCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING.3.2 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG PEOPLES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD3.3 THE PROMOTION, ADVANCEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE UPHOLDING OF CHRISTIAN VALUES AMONG PEOPLES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. 3.4 THE PROMOTION, ADVANCEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS, WHICH LEAD TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIFE IN URBAN OR RURAL COMMUNITIES TO INCLUDE:(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL AND OTHER HARDSHIP; AND(2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND OF A CHARITABLE NATURE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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