Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 7
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS LIMITED 

Follow Your Dreams is a national charity that inspires children and young adults with learning disabilities to follow their dreams, and be supported through life. Our vision is for children and young adults with learning disabilities to achieve their full potential and enhance their well-being throughout life.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 19 years

www.followyourdreams.org.uk

admin@followyourdreams.org.uk

07547408166

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
30/09/22*£234£239£-4n/an/an/an/an/a143
30/09/21£335£261£74n/an/an/an/an/a142
30/09/20?£620£590£29£126£67£50110124
31/03/19£634£614£20£135£37£230.5940
31/03/18£598£596£2£107£17£50.1970
31/03/17£452£445£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£548£569£-21£127£8£40.180
31/03/15£601£590£12£194£30£200.480
31/03/14£526£523£3£157£18£180.470
31/03/13£493£491£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£639£598£41£423£13£-1-0110
31/03/11*£270£291£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£139£151£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09?*£55£63£-8£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/08*£19£13£6£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/07*£28£24£3£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/06*£8£9£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/05*£6£6£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 143 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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
DCMS£16,500
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Co-Operative Group£5,652
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Together Time
£1,276 21/10/2023
We aim to buy equipment and materials for our sessions. Our activities include watercolours, acrylic painting, puzzle books, colour by numbers, cross stitch, knitting, needle felting, relaxation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Follow Your Dreams Play Stay & Sign
£1,550 21/10/2023
We would like to buy materials and fund sessions to improve sign language communication with children, young people and their siblings. We would love to put on a show with Singing Hands loved by all.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Follow Your Dreams Charity
£1,339 22/10/2022
We aim to come together to support children and young people with disabilities to recognise their potential, learn new skills, be ambitious and gain the opportunities to follow their dreams.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to LifeWise
£1,488 23/10/2021
We would support young people with disabilities to learn skills from people in our community with activities such as arts and crafts, health and wellbeing, heritage, life skills and performing arts.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£16,500 08/07/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - Fun & Friendship (Covid19)
£10,000 22/06/2020
12
Follow Your Dreams Ltd in Rhondda Cynon Taf will use £10000 to provide online sessions and activity packs for children and young adults with disabilities who are currently shielding as they are at ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Follow Your Dreams Charity
£5,000 19/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with children and young people with learning disabilities in Wales
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifewise
£10,000 15/11/2017
12
Lifewise
National Lottery Community Fund - Ohana Play
£10,000 25/10/2017
12
The funding will be used to host weekly workshops to bring together a local network of families, to gain support and learn new skills whilst developing positive community relationships.
Quartet Community Foundation - The Butterfly Hut
£5,000 01/12/2016
12
To provide activities for children with learning disabilities who attend The Butterfly Hut.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Follow Your Dreams
£24,700 25/08/2011
the salary costs of a part-time Employment Support Officer within the `Catch the Working Dream` project, travel and equipment/stationery and telephone costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/10/2004, number: 1106379
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/02/2003, number: 04673165
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR22: 121 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR11: 0 days late, AR09: 150 days late, AR08: 65 days late, AR07: 430 days late, AR06: 121 days late, AR05: 328 days late,
Main office

Unit
8A Cambrian Industrial Estate
East Side Coedcae Lane
PONTYCLUN
Mid Glamorgan
CF72 9EW

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SPONSORING THEM TO ATTEND AND COMPETE IN SPORTING ACTIVITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONALLY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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