Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

SAFFRON YOUNG PEOPLES PROJECT LIMITED 

The principal activity of SYPP is the provision of a detached youth work project supporting young people living in the Saffron Estate, Leicester & other areas with a similar economic profile in Leicestershire, in accessing & developing opportunities available. Issues include bullying, unemployment, racism, social exclusion & deprivation. The Estate is in the top 2% most deprived areas in England.
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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: 19 years
(22 years as a company)

www.saffronyoungpeoplesproject.com

gary.fox@sypp.co.uk

0116 2837212

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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
31/07/22£86£145£-59n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/07/21*£187£131£56n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/07/20£177£149£28n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/07/19£156£140£15n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/07/18£157£131£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/17£115£124£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/16£110£132£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/15£141£117£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/14£125£122£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/13£95£95£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/12£125£129£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/11£117£116£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/10£132£117£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/09£142£163£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/08£124£109£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/07£117£84£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/06£84£97£-12£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Leicestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 27 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
National Lottery Community Fund£331,421
Tudor Trust£62,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
DCMS£9,585
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 09/04/2021
Main Grants award
Tudor Trust - Grant to Saffron Young People's Project
£2,000 17/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,585 18/09/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Knife crime project
£9,500 25/02/2020
11
The funding will be used to deliver a pilot project of workshops for young people regarding knife crime. The project aims to raise awareness, help reduce knife crime and improve life chances.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Saffron Young People's Project
£60,000 11/12/2019
36
over three years towards the running costs of a project focusing on the prevention of knife-related crime in the Saffron Lane area of Leicester
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Potential
£321,921 09/12/2019
60
This project will continue to engage young people from the Saffron Lane estate in a range of sport, arts and social activities, to improve their life skills, confidence, resilience and wellbeing. The ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Saffron Young People's Project
£14,905 11/07/2017
24
to develop a young parents project on the Saffron Estate, including evaluation costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing skills and confidence in young people in the Saffron Lane Estate
£296,427 16/11/2016
36
The project aims to engage with young people through a range of activities including informal learning to improve their life skills, confidence, resilience and wellbeing. Sexual health workshops and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Saffron Young People's Project
£10,000 08/09/2016
12
towards one year's salary of the Senior Youth Worker at an organisation that provides detached youth work to young people from a deprived estate in Leicester
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Saffron Young People's Project
£24,000 28/06/2013
The charity works with young people on the deprived Saffron Estate in Leicester. The grant will support detatched youth work and support for volunteers. It will enable improvements in health, self ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Saffron Young People's Project
£20,000 13/06/2013
24
towards two years' salary of a Project Manager at an organisation that works with vulnerable young people in a deprived area of Leicestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Saffron Young Peoples Project
£303,731 17/04/2013
36
The project based in the Saffron Lane Estate in Leicester aims to improve the life chances of deprived/disadvantaged young people living on the estate by providing positive interventions to develop ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-47
  • DANIEL MYERS (Chair) Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Councillor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/09/2005, number: 1111445
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/11/2001, number: 04328703
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR21: 9 days late,
Main office

Saffron Resource Centre
432 Saffron Lane
LEICESTER
LE2 6SB

Objectives

TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE AGED UNDER 25 LIVING ON THE SAFFRON ESTATE, LEICESTER AND OTHER AREAS WITH A SIMILAR ECONOMIC PROFILE IN LEICESTERSHIRE. IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY THE EMPLOYMENT OF A YOUTH WORKER OR YOUTH WORKERS SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE SAFFRON ESTATE, LEICESTER. AND OTHER AREAS WITH A SIMILAR ECONOMIC PROFILE IN LEICESTERSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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