Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 4
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Very static board: -5
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

JEWISH TRAINING ACADEMY FOR GIRLS (JTAG) LTD 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND RELIEF OF POVERTY
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be very static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
Established: 17 years

02088067736

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
31/08/22£672£734£-62£56£578£5779.4408
31/08/21£701£606£95£8£640£63812.6398
31/08/20£662£577£85£4£545£54311.3378
31/08/19£737£465£273£12£460£44611.5408
31/08/18£580£502£78£8£187£1774.2375
31/08/17£417£360£57£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16?£329£296£32£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£291£265£27£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£152£169£-17£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£146£148£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£126£124£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£89£107£-18£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10*£63£126£-63£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09*£182£104£78£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08*£89£79£10£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 82%
Liabilities/Income: 399%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 9.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -39 months
Quick Ratio: 0
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hackney,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 40 employees
  • 8 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Fighting food poverty
£9,998 10/03/2023
The funding will be used to run cost-of-living cooking classes for young women in the Orthodox Jewish community. This project aims to teach skills in budgeting and cooking for those struggling due to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£4,160 24/07/2020
"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 - Be Crafty
£9,958 23/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver skills and art workshops for young girls from the Jewish community. The project aims to promote engagement, creativity and career development.
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2018
£3,775 04/12/2018
Nearly half of young people (47%) worldwide have received intimidating, threatening or nasty messages online! BATC will equip 50 vulnerable YP with resilience, inspiration, tips and knowledge to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Buddies
£10,000 27/04/2018
12
The project will set up a befriending scheme to enable young people to volunteer to support and assist children aged 8-11 with their schoolwork, becoming friends and offering buddying support. The ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Jewish Training Academy for Girls (JTAG) Ltd
£30,000 13/03/2018
36
Courses for young women from the Orthodox Jewish community, themed around social and emotional skills. Young women will benefit through increased confidence, improved communication skills and better ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2015
£10,000 18/12/2015
JTAG Ltd is planning to run a variety of computer courses for 100 disadvantaged and disengaged young people, aged 16-18 years as an employment training project. This is to take place in Hackney; an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - IT for teens
£10,000 09/05/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use the funding to run a computer and employment training project for young Jewish people in the local area. This will teach skills to ....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: 30-69
  • FEIGY LIAS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Company Director
  • JACOB DAMEN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/07/2007, number: 1120262
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/06/2006, number: 05840791
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
15 returns made; AR10: 4 days late, AR09: 75 days late, AR08: 165 days late,
Main office

37 ASHTEAD ROAD
LONDON
E5 9BJ

Objectives

A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF FURTHER EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH.B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR YOUTH GROUPS AND/OR INDIVIDUALS TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT AND WITH A PARTICULAR VIEW TO PROMOTING A CAREER IN TEACHING.C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND STUDY GRANTS TO YOUTH GROUPS AND/OR INDIVIDUALS OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT AND WITH A PARTICULAR VIEW TO PROMOTING A CAREER IN TEACHING.D) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH PROVISION BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON 'NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE'

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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