Overall GiG Score: 9 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Grant maker support: +11

BLOOMING BLOSSOMS TRUST 

1) TO PROVIDE REMEDIAL SUPPORT FOR ACADEMICALLY CHALLENGED, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO ENABLE THEM TO BLOSSOM.2) SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES WITH A SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, AND SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO YOUNG PEOPLE.3) THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 17 years

www.bloomingblossomstrust.org.uk

info@bloomingblossomstrust.org.uk

020 71128760

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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£565£663£-98£0£47£80.1010
31/03/22£491£446£45n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21*£528£590£-62£11£100£-168-3.412
31/03/20£441£391£50n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/19£289£311£-22n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/18£333£343£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£118£305£-187£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£296£292£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£215£182£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£122£167£-45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£198£278£-80£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£436£277£159£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£494£365£129£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£488£394£95£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£352£336£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£293£272£21£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: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 17%
Reserves/Spending: 0.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 46.5
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • 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
City Bridge Trust£42,149
Youth Music£25,040
National Lottery Community Fund£19,640
Hackney Council£18,140
DCMS£10,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£9,100
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Youth Music - Be Scene: Be Heard
£25,040 31/05/2023
Be Scene: Be Heard
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Blooming Blossoms Trust
£5,000 28/04/2023
to support Share-a-Pair which distributes 500 pairs of new socks, undergarments and gently used coats. Wearing decent garments is empowering giving the wearer the self-esteem and confidence necessary ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to Blooming Blossoms Trust
£18,140 19/04/2023
Feel Blue? Go Green!
National Lottery Community Fund - Jubilee Sensory-Garden Party
£9,660 25/02/2022
The funding will be used host a themed garden party both in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and to launch a talking walking garden. The project aims to bring the community together ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£2,500 25/06/2021
The Feeling Talking Walking Garden
National Lottery Community Fund - No tiers tears
£9,980 12/01/2021
8
The funding is being used to provide wellbeing support for young people with Special Educational Needs who are living with disadvantage. The project aims to reduce loneliness and hunger and improve ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Blooming Blossoms Trust
£9,100 09/09/2020
installation of disabled toilet, purchase of covid-19 equipment, therapy and play equipment, and outdoor equipment for a charity that supports disadvantaged children and young people with ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Blooming Blossoms Trust
£35,624 05/08/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application for the specialist tutoring and educational therapy support for SEN children from disadvantaged homes to compensate for the lock-down education ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 23/06/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Blooming Blossoms Trust
£6,525 15/05/2020
A grant of £6,525 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Sport England - Water Warriors
£9,521 18/02/2019
0
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Water Warriors. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
National Lottery Community Fund - Nature to Nurture
£10,000 07/12/2018
12
The project will run gardening sessions and rural outings for children living with special educational needs. The aim is to improve outdoor learning and sensory skills.
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2018
£7,500 15/06/2018
For many, anticipation is high.Alas, for our Sen users who are multiply disadvantaged,holidays are`holey days.`Lack of structure,social time,food and space cause our users to dread holidays. We ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2017
£17,424 05/12/2017
For many, anticipation is high.Alas, for our Sen users who are multiply disadvantaged,holidays are`holey days.`Lack of structure,social time,food and space cause our users to dread holidays. We ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards an Occupational Therapy Haven for inner-city disadvantaged children
£1,000 22/03/2017
Towards establishing an Occupational Therapy Haven for inner-city disadvantaged children attending mainstream school with challenging behaviour.
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2016
£25,000 02/12/2016
Learning disabled kids and kids with social & emotional difficulties face too many closed doors;but when compounded with poverty; these are a sentence for failure.We want to expand our OT room to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Teens Have Talent
£10,000 04/03/2015
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Unity
£10,000 22/09/2011
12
This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use funding to run a two-week holiday programme in Stamford Hill for disadvantaged young boys of Orthodox Jewish faith, particularly ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/05/2007, number: 1119198
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
16 returns made; AR21: 9 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR09: 2 days late,
Main office

79 GLADESMORE ROAD
LONDON
N15 6TL

Objectives

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND3) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE HACKNEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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