Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

LIKEWISE COMMUNITY 

The Holy Cross Centre Trust is a small, secular, dynamic organisation based in King’s Cross, London. We work with people who are socially excluded in a variety of ways in Camden and Islington.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 19 years

www.likewise.org.uk

Hugo.Reggiani@likewise.org.uk

02072784437

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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
31/03/23£991£912£79£0£775£6228.24143
31/03/22£917£776£142£0£695£4446.937114
31/03/21£938£667£271£0£563£4327.829114
31/03/20£732£749£-17£0£292£2824.531150
31/03/19£651£662£-11£0£310£2063.732160
31/03/18*£672£827£-155£0£321£3084.5130
31/03/17£996£870£126£0£476£4636.4310
31/03/16£849£693£155£0£350£3365.8250
31/03/15*£590£517£74£11£195£140.360
31/03/14*£424£503£-79£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£365£541£-176£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£700£639£61£10£376£3516.6100
31/03/11*£782£669£113£0£315£2865.1110
31/03/10£778£689£89£13£202£1763.1110
31/03/09£642£617£26£18£113£601.2150
31/03/08*£680£638£42£21£88£480.9150
31/03/07*£662£634£28£20£46£-10-0.2140
31/03/06*£321£320£1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 80%
Reserves/Spending: 8.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 10
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 41 employees
  • 43 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£490,000
Lankelly Chase Foundation£170,000
Tudor Trust£152,000
Power to Change£60,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Likewise Community Wellbeing Garden and Nature Connection project
£10,000 03/02/2023
The funding will be used to develop their underutilised garden involving staff volunteers and clients which will co-design develop and deliver activities in the garden. The project aims to promote ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Likewise
£2,000 04/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Likewise (formerly Holy Cross Centre Trust)
£20,000 31/05/2020
Likewise (formerly Holy Cross Centre Trust)
Tudor Trust - Grant to Likewise
£150,000 31/03/2020
18
over 18 months as continuation on an unrestricted basis for a charity developing a new model for social care and support in Camden, London
Power to Change - Holy Cross Centre Trust
£60,000 24/09/2019
10
Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
National Lottery Community Fund - Pod Model - Community-based Health and Social Care
£480,000 01/08/2019
48
The project will use the funding to deliver social care and mental health services through the Pod Model, which brings talented graduates into frontline social care roles as leaders and developing ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£150,000 15/07/2019
12
To develop 15 'pods' to ensure sustainability.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£91,056 27/03/2019
36
Holy Cross Centre Trust is requesting funding towards the salary costs of its Pod programme, providing key work and volunteer based support to assist people affected by mental health conditions to ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£110,000 23/07/2018
12
To support organisational growth, including recruitment, evaluation and new funding streams
Tudor Trust - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£150,000 29/03/2018
18
over 18 months towards the scaling of the Pod model for social care delivery at a centre supporting socially excluded people and people with mental health difficulties based in King's Cross
Tudor Trust - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£20,000 29/06/2017
12
towards the cost of working with ICSF to investigate how the Pod model, being developed to work with people who are experiencing difficulties, might be replicated
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£185,000 08/06/2016
12
To support an organisational restructure at Holy Cross and to evaluate the impact of the process
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£30,000 29/05/2014
HCCT supports people with complex needs such as mental ill health, addiction and homelessness with day opportunities, information, practical and emotional support. It is seeking funding for its ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Discovery
£723,000 28/05/2014
36
Not Available
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Holy Cross Centre Trust
£150,000 06/05/2014
To continue developing and evaluating Discovery, a new operating model that will build capability and emotional intelligence in both front-line workers and service users
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-62
  • JENNIFER WOOD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Deputy Head Of Personalised Follow Up
  • MATTHEW HACKE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Policy Advisor - Hm Government
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/05/2005, number: 1109639
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/04/2005, number: 05436062
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
18 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR15: 5 days late, AR14: 5 days late, AR11: 25 days late, AR08: 117 days late, AR07: 115 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

8 Fairhazel Gardens
London
NW6 3SG

Objectives

3.1 TO RELIEVE NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG PEOPLE OF THE GREATER LONDON AREA (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA); AND3.2 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA; AND3.3 TO PROMOTE THE BETTER CARE, UPBRINGING AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN LIVING IN THE AREA, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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