Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT (GOSAD) 

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT (GOS&D) provides.Employability Skills ProgrammeHealth and Well-being ProjectsInformation, Advice and Guidance (IAG)ESOLIntergenerational ProjectsCrime Diversionary Activities Offender Support Program Sports Activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static and 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
Established: 16 years

www.gosad.org.uk

admin@gosad.org.uk

02085719529

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookX
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£460£467£-7n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/22£396£326£70n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/21£315£276£39n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£287£282£5n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£245£191£53n/an/an/an/an/a32
31/03/18£228£196£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£104£102£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£88£71£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£55£51£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£50£50£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£67£66£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£121£91£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£89£30£59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£149£54£94£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£22£16£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brent, Ealing, Ethiopia, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kenya, Slough,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 12 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£429,985
John Lyon's Charity£105,400
Trust for London£105,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
BBC Children in Need£50,583
Greater London Authority£26,400
London Borough of Hounslow£25,000
The London Community Foundation£24,120
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Education For All
£26,400 06/09/2023
The project will support beneficiaries to access adult learning opportunities and particularly learning opportunities that are funded and or supported by the Mayor of London such as the London ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development
£3,400 11/01/2023
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Golden Opportunities Skills and Development (GOS&D)
£25,000 12/07/2022
Offering early intervention work to prevent youth violence in Hounslow Borough
Trust for London - Golden Opportunities Skills and Development
£105,000 29/06/2022
The funding is towards two, part-time posts to offer advice and policy support to West London BAME communities around temporary accommodation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Everyone Matters
£420,000 07/04/2022
The project is using funding towards a partnership project to create a more joined up approach to support for BAME communities across Ealing. The project will provide a multi-lingual information hub ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development
£50,000 08/12/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Golden Opportunity Skills and Development
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development (GOS&D)
£9,600 15/12/2020
16
The funding is needed to deliver a much-needed mental health service to support affected individuals from Black Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BMER) communities. The pandemic has exposed unacceptable ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Golden Opportunity Skills and Development
£22,000 14/10/2020
5
To expand its mental health and advocacy support to vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,990 14/08/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development (GOSAD)
£50,583 30/07/2020
Covid19 - This project will support 100 black, minority ethnic and refugee young people in Ealing who are disadvantaged by Covid-19 with skills training and job coaching to ensure they are better ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development
£102,000 18/06/2020
36
Our Children, Our Future
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development (GOSAD)
£9,570 21/04/2020
GOSAD is seeking funding to offer critical support to between 80 and 90 at-risk and vulnerable Ealing residents. The support to be provided will include practical advice on welfare rights issues, ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Golden Opportunity Skills and Development (GOSAD)
£4,950 09/04/2020
Social distancing and isolation to combat the prevalence and spread of Covid-19 has prompted GOSAD to identify 23 isolated and vulnerable Ealing residents that are in danger of starvation. GOSAD is ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Mental Health is My Right
£9,985 24/02/2020
7
The funding will be used to deliver narrative therapy sessions for people who are refugees and immigrants. The project aims to bring people together to promote discussion and improve mental health.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 18-19
£20,000 03/09/2018
The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to ....more
Trust for London - Golden Opportunities Skills and Development
£30,000 07/06/2017
24
The funding is to support the recruiting of a part-time Lead Welfare Advisor to; Provide core Welfare-rights training, information, advice and guidance to beneficiaries (18hrs/week) Coordinate and ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards helping divert young people away from the risk of drugs
£1,000 09/02/2015
Towards helping divert young people away from the risk of drugs, crime and anti-social behaviour through a football project.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 53-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/11/2007, number: 1121565
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/10/2007, number: 06396150
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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
15 returns made; AR12: 20 days late,
Main office

THE RESOURCE CENTRE
FEATHERSTONE TERRACE
SOUTHALL
UB2 5AL

Objectives

1 TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF PEOPLE FROM SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGE COMMUNITY OF LONDON AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE FROM BLACK, MINORITY ETHNIC, AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY2 TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMICDISADVANTAGE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ITS COMMUNITY; AND IN PARTICULARLYBUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED YOUNGPEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE LIFE OF THEIR COMMUNITY IN WAYS WHICH ADDRESS ANDALLEVIATE SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.3 TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITYIN LONDON AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN LINKS WITH SUCH PEOPLE AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WHO WORK WITH THEM IN UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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