Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 10
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

WALWORTH GOLDEN OLDIES COMMUNITY CARE PROJECT 

GOCCP IS A WELL ESTABLISHED CHARITY BASED IN THE HEART OF CAMBERWELL THAT HAS BEEN MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS BY PROMOTING GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO ASSIST OLDER PEOPLE TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE LIFESTYLES WHILST ENSURING THEY HAVE ACCESS TO A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICES ENABLING CHOICE AND DIGNITY IN OLD AGE.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • 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
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

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*£90£74£16n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/22£100£55£45n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/21£67£66£1n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/20*£46£42£4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£25£24£1n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/18£25£24£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£19£19£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£4£3£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£24£32£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£30£44£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£25£33£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£79£93£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£103£106£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£102£102£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£104£103£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£109£110£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£113£117£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£107£94£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years
(22 years as a company)

www.southwark-golden-oldies.com

walworthgolden.oldies@gmail.com

02072527444

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Financial support to the poor
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Southwark,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of 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
London Borough of Southwark£41,850
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£23,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,800
The London Community Foundation£19,360
DCMS£19,260
United Saviours Charity£8,400
CAF£5,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Get Involved Stay Healthy
£10,000 22/09/2023
The funding will be used to employ an Outreach Project Coordinator to help expand the groups pool of volunteers. The project aims to provide older people from the BME community with healthy meals and ....more
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies
£10,000 31/03/2023
Common Purpose grant from the Environment, Neighbourhoods & Growth department
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies
£2,500 31/03/2023
Neighbourhoods Fund - West Central grant from the Environment, Neighbourhoods & Growth department for Golden Memories
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies
£10,000 31/03/2022
Common Purpose grant from the Environment & Leisure department
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies
£17,550 31/03/2022
Public Health grant from the Environment & Leisure department for Health improvement
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies
£1,800 31/03/2022
Neighbourhoods Fund - West Central grant from the Environment & Leisure department
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies
£23,000 24/09/2021
24
Community Care project bringing lonely and isolated BAME elders (aged 60+) together for socialisation and learning, to reduce isolation and build and strengthen relationships.
National Lottery Community Fund - BME Elders Re-engage and Recover Service
£9,800 29/07/2021
The funding will be used to provide a project co-ordinator to recruit more volunteers run information sharing sessions and day trips for older vulnerable BAME people in the community. The project ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies Community Care project
£10,000 01/12/2020
1
Funding will be used to provide warm meals, fruit and toiletries for our users delivered twice weekly by our volunteers. Thus enabling us to sustain the physical and emotional wellbeing of vulnerable ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,900 28/09/2020
"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
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies Community Care project
£9,360 14/08/2020
The funding is for the costs towards of our Project Co-ordinator, who will co-ordinate digital services for vulnerable older people as they transition out of lock-down to the new norm. The project ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,360 14/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
CAF - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies Community Care Project
£5,000 18/06/2020
3
Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies Community Care Project to support the organisation through COVID19
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£5,000 29/05/2020
Thursday Day Centre Project
United Saviours Charity - COVID-19
£5,000 09/04/2020
2
We are applying for funding to help us meet costs of providing our users with at least 1 home delivered warm Caribbean flavoured meal weekly and to meet costs of delivering our Telephone Befriending ....more
United Saviours Charity - Golden Advantage
£3,400 10/01/2020
11
Golden Advantage – Costs of a co-ordinator to run weekly social activities for BAME older people over 1 year.
National Lottery Community Fund - EngAGE: Telephone Befriending Service
£10,000 05/04/2019
12
The project will deliver a telephone befriending service for older people. The aim is to support users in their well-being by providing companionship to combat isolation and loneliness.
National Lottery Community Fund - Telephone Befriending for Seniors
£9,610 22/11/2017
12
This project will deliver a telephone befriending service for vulnerable older people who are unable to attend a day centre due to illness or loss of mobility, offering practical and emotional ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to Walworth Golden Oldies Community Care Project
£7,000 24/03/2017
Team london small grants - supporting 59-69 year olds to volunteer and/or elderly people to have improved access to community services
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 65-88
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/08/2004, number: 1105403
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/02/2002, number: 04364742
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR23: 33 days late, AR20: 8 days late, AR15: 76 days late, AR13: 64 days late, AR12: 49 days late, AR11: 1 days late,
Main office

367 HITHER GREEN LANE
LONDON
SE13 6TW

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE IN AND AROUND THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT).

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN AND AROUND THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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