Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

CARIS CAMDEN 

The charity's principal activity is running afterschool and homework clubs for children in temporary accommodation hostels and a holiday enrichment programme for those children.
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 and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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 has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 16 years

www.cariscamdenfamilies.org

andrewpenny1955@gmail.com

07754833631

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
31/12/22£192£170£22n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/12/21£126£139£-12n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/20£320£598£-278n/an/an/an/an/a600
31/12/19*£438£344£93n/an/an/an/an/a600
31/12/18£384£308£76£0£0£0n/a0500
31/12/17£251£229£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£219£193£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£219£154£65£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£147£146£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£130£125£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12?£71£69£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/11£100£85£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/10?*£81£74£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden, Hackney,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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
Camden Giving£89,487
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£60,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£30,000
Department for Work and Pensions£21,315
Masonic Trust£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,590
Lloyds Bank Foundation£6,350
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£10,000 08/11/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£10,000 23/09/2022
Caris Families
Department for Work and Pensions - PRESTEIGNE BROADCAST HIRE LIMMITED
£18,315 01/04/2022
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
National Lottery Community Fund - Under 5's Enrichment Trips
£9,590 11/02/2022
The funding will provide enrichment trips for children under 5 years old living in hostels in Hackney. It will help to develop all of their foundational cognitive physical educational and social ....more
Camden Giving - C4WS Homeless Project
£9,588 11/08/2021
This funding supports the employability mentoring programme called Jobs Club, and to directly benefit the members and help with course fees.
Department for Work and Pensions - NE CHILDRENS PARTIES
£3,000 01/04/2021
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to CARIS Camden
£6,350 23/07/2020
Grant to CARIS Camden meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Camden Giving - C4WS Homeless Project
£9,760 26/06/2020
4
This funding is for Welfare Needs of those referred to our 2020/2021 winter night shelter. This will support them with vital daily needs whilst staying in the shelter and purchase the necessary ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to CARIS Camden
£5,700 25/06/2020
IT equipment for 5 staff members of C4WS to ensure the general running of the organisation.
Camden Giving - C4WS Winter Night Shelter - Shelter Coordination
£41,359 21/05/2020
35
The project will support the coordination of Winter Night Shelter by managing the logistics of ensuring the 12 venues are viable spaces, training volunteers and supporting Church Coordinators, ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to CARIS Camden Families
£3,935 04/05/2020
A grant of £3,935 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to CW4S Homeless Project
£2,000 24/04/2020
A grant of £2,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to C4WS Homeless Project
£1,000 22/04/2020
Grant through the Heart of the Community Fund to purchase supplies needed for the Sunday club which offers a safe and warm space for guests to relax.
Camden Giving - C4WS - grant extension for Covid-19 response
£10,000 19/03/2020
To cover the rents of a group guests who had found hospitality jobs and homes, then lost them and were concerned about becoming homeless again. This is an extension of a current grant they already ....more
Camden Giving - C4WS - grant extension for Covid-19 response
£10,000 19/03/2020
To cover the rents of a group guests who had found hospitality jobs and homes, then lost them and were concerned about becoming homeless again. This is an extension of a current grant they already ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Running our winter night shelter and providing welfare support
£60,000 03/12/2019
24
Core funding to support a winter night shelter that provides emergency accommodation for people experiencing homelessness, and to offer welfare support to help guests access housing and employment.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to CARIS Camden
£30,000 10/10/2019
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to CARIS Camden Families
£1,000 21/05/2019
Grant through the Heart of the Community Fund used to purchase arts and crafts supplies to give homeless children a space to engage in imaginative and educational play.
Camden Giving - C4WS Winter Night Shelter
£8,780 30/04/2019
2
The C4WS Night Shelter runs between the start of November and end of March every year providing emergency accommodation to 16 homeless people per night in 13 churches across the borough of Camden. ....more
Camden Giving - Home from Home Project Coordinator
£28,386 28/02/2019
21
Home From Home is an innovative new project that utilises spare rooms in London to provide a solution to homelessness.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 28/02/2019
Core Costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Caris Camden
£11,989 19/11/2018
Help us run a winter night shelter that offers immediate accommodation to up to 100 people with nowhere else to go.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to CARIS Camden: C4WS Homeless Project
£30,000 17/10/2018
24
Salary Contribution to the Project Manager
Camden Giving - C4WS Winter Night Shelter
£8,350 29/04/2018
11
The project runs between November and March every year providing emergency accommodation to 16 homeless people per night in 13 churches across the borough of Camden. Each guest is provided with food, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to CARIS Camden
£74,391 22/03/2018
36
CARIS Camden is seeking funding for the development and delivery of its Employment Support Pathway supporting people who are homeless or vulnerably housed to secure employment and move forward
Co-Operative Group - Grant to CARIS Camden: C4WS Homeless Project
£3,348 04/08/2017
We don't just offer a temporary place to stay. Help us fund welfare support to enable our clients to rebuild their entire lives, too.
Camden Giving - C4WS Winter Night Shelter
£8,780 16/04/2017
4
The project supports people experiencing homelessness into accomodations so they can begin the process of rebuilding their lives.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to CARIS Camden
£25,000 28/02/2014
CARIS Camden supports homeless and vulnerable people in Camden. Its main services are the management of a Winter Night Shelter Scheme, all yr round day activities, information and practical support. ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/12/2007, number: 1121919
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/09/2007, number: 06378349
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR19: 11 days late, AR10: 70 days late,
Main office

St Pancras Church House
1, Lancing Street
London
NW1 1NA

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHINTHE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN (AND THE SURROUNDING OR ADJACENT AREAS) (INCLUDINGTHE ASSISTING OF THE HOMELESS AND PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN NEED) AS SHALL BE ANEXPRESSION OF CHRISTIAN SOCIAL CONCERN.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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