Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

THE CARE LEAVERS ASSOCIATION 

The Care Leavers' Association is run by and for adults who spent time in care as children. It works to improve provision for adult care leavers and young people currently in care. The CLA provides advice, information and training. The CLA also aims to challenge negative public perceptions and stereotypes of children in care and care leavers and to raise awareness about the needs of this group.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified 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
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 18 years

www.careleavers.com

info@careleavers.com

0161 826 0214

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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£81£129£-48n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£175£140£35n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£259£154£105n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£184£165£19n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/19*£162£166£-4n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/18£136£222£-86£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£199£214£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£244£199£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£182£166£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£129£135£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£205£124£80£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£111£124£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11?£145£137£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/09£69£62£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/08£49£51£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/07*£37£36£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/06*£31£32£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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£312,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£226,185
Tudor Trust£72,000
Department for Education£39,750
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting the Invisible Community
£312,000 27/03/2023
The funding will be used to support adults who grew up in the care system. The project aims to reduce the social isolation many suffer as well as improve the long term mental effects of having been ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Care Leavers' Association
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Leavers' Association
£2,000 22/04/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation to deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Department for Education - DCMS Covid-19 funding
£39,750 01/04/2020
To provide support due to the COVID-19 pandemic to three care leaver's charities (Become, the Care Leavers Association and the Drive Forward Foundation - £150k budgeted for that), to Grandparents ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Care Leavers' Association
£223,935 19/11/2019
36
To push for the development of a new statutory instrument to improve the planning and assessment processes across both criminal justice and social care and improve the support available to care ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Leavers' Association
£70,000 17/07/2019
24
over two years as continuation funding to support work with care leavers within the criminal justice system
DCMS - Building Connections Fund
£22,000 01/04/2019
Development of a social media platform aimed to connect care leavers of all ages who had lived in specific residential homes or foster care placements. recreated to establish a new updated ....more
DCMS - Building Connections Fund
£22,000 05/01/2019
Development of a social media platform aimed to connect care leavers of all ages who had lived in specific residential homes or foster care placements. recreated to establish a new updated ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Care Experienced Connections
£49,434 26/11/2018
36
Care Experienced Connections
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Leavers' Association
£209,000 14/09/2016
36
over three years as continuation funding towards salaries and associated costs of CLA's work with care leavers in the CJS._x000D_ _x000D_
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Influential Voices: Care Experienced CJS User-Led Forum
£90,000 09/07/2016
36
To support a dedicated programme of activities that will enable young adult care leavers with experience of crime to engage with and influence policy-makers and contribute to structural reform
Tudor Trust - Grant to Care Leavers' Association
£150,000 06/08/2014
24
over two years as continuation funding to roll out learning from a pilot project aiming to identify and document links and triggers between the care experience and offending
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Care Leavers and Criminal Justice: A Clear Policy Appro
£45,160 01/08/2014
To achieve a policy consensus regarding care leavers involved with the criminal justice system
Dulverton Trust - core costs
£30,000 15/02/2012
core costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 27-68
  • KHES NASIM Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/11/2005, number: 1111988
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/08/2004, number: 05204243
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR19: 5 days late, AR16: 10 days late, AR07: 39 days late, AR06: 18 days late,
Main office

Third Floor
Swan Buildings
Swan Street
Manchester

Objectives

FOR THE RELIEF OF ADULTS WHO HAVE SPENT SOME OR ALL OF THEIR CHILDHOOD IN PUBLIC CARE BY:(A) PROVIDING ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT AND OTHER SERVICES IN ORDER THAT SUCH ADULTS MAY FULFIL THEIR POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THE MEDIA BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON THE ISSUES AFFECTING THE WELFARE OF CARE LEAVERS WITH THE OBJECT OF REDUCING NEGATIVE STEREOTYPING AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION;(C) ENCOURAGING THE IMPROVEMENT OF SERVICES FOR CARE LEAVERS AND THOSE STILL IN CARE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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