Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 10
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

THE MATTHEW PROJECT 

The Matthew Project is a value driven charity working in innovative ways with adults. young people and communities affected by drugs. alcohol and other issues
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 16 years

www.matthewproject.org

admin@matthewproject.org

01603626123

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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£2,631£2,499£133£23£2,054£6102.96334
31/03/22£2,196£2,211£-16£7£1,922£5993.35945
31/03/21£2,112£2,003£109£3£1,937£66546234
31/03/20£2,223£1,933£290£3£1,828£7584.75229
31/03/19£2,080£2,043£37£3£1,538£7664.55814
31/03/18*£4,144£3,632£512£4£1,501£7582.51300
31/03/17*£3,158£3,233£-75£3£989£5822.21290
31/03/16*£3,226£3,321£-96£1£1,096£7232.61290
31/03/15£3,466£3,445£21£17£1,192£7392.61170
31/03/14£3,434£3,262£172£14£1,170£6712.51130
31/03/13£2,182£2,109£72£22£998£7154.1720
31/03/12£2,236£2,135£101£12£926£6843.8570
31/03/11£2,002£1,948£54£37£824£6494550
31/03/10£1,539£1,491£48£41£770£6114.9440
31/03/09£1,413£1,389£25£28£722£6105.3430

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 30%
Reserves/Spending: 2.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 63 employees
  • 34 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Norfolk, Suffolk,

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£398,135
Ministry of Defence£136,372
Henry Smith Charity£115,000
BBC Children in Need£78,957
The Clothworkers Foundation£50,000
DCMS£39,429
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Matthew Project
£13,935 03/05/2022
Medieval Church Conservation – Recovery from Substance Misuse
National Lottery Community Fund - Hangout
£10,000 11/02/2022
The funding will be used to set up a series of youth clubs for young people who have been affected by issues including drug addiction. The project aims to provide respite from the issues affecting ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Next Steps Recovery Support
£388,135 27/01/2022
The funding will help support the project's Next Steps Recovery Support Program which will provide therapeutic employability and community support to adults recovering from addiction. The funding ....more
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£36,966 12/11/2021
For existing charitable projects to help charities to sustain activities and services that people from Armed Forces communities use and value.
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£35,000 12/02/2021
Address social isolation by targeting specific groups within the Armed Forces community who are traditionally harder to reach.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Outside the Wire (The Matthew Project)
£5,000 22/01/2021
2
Supporting core costs of the Outside the Wire Project for veterans and their families during the Coronavirus emergency.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Matthew Project
£115,000 08/12/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing one-to-one and group support and activities for people in recovery from addiction, in Norwich.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 13/11/2020
Next Steps Recovery Centre
Suffolk Community Foundation - Outside the Wire - Prison Practitioner - Suffolk Prisons
£4,000 27/10/2020
7
Towards the Outside the Wire project working with veterans in prison.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£39,429 11/08/2020
"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
Ministry of Defence - Covid-19 Impact Fund
£48,539 15/06/2020
To maintain services and activities where organisations' finances had been impacted by Covid
Suffolk Community Foundation - Outside the Wire (The Matthew Project)
£5,000 29/05/2020
2
To support core costs of the Outside the Wire Project for veterans during the Coronavirus emergency. Covid19
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£15,867 15/05/2020
to provide immediate support for vulnerable veterans with reduced social contact
Suffolk Community Foundation - Outside the Wire (The Matthew Project)
£2,976 12/05/2020
11
Enabling The Matthew Project to deliver wellbeing activities and food/utility vouchers to vulnerable families in Suffolk during the Covid 19 lock down.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Matthew Project
£50,000 25/09/2019
refurbishment of a building for a charity which works with people experiencing alcohol or substance misuse in Norfolk
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Matthew Project
£78,957 26/06/2019
24
The project will provide support for children who are affected by substance misuse issues. The project will give the young people increased awareness of how to be safe, give them strategies to manage ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Outside the Wire - Suffolk Prisons
£9,794 14/03/2019
11
Towards Outside the Wire - Suffolk Prisons.
Ministry of Defence - Charitable donations from LIBOR 2018-2019
£96,449 01/04/2018
Banking fines - Treasury to direct to various Armewd Forces causes
Ministry of Defence - Financial Assistance/Support
£96,449 01/04/2017
Banking fines - Treasury to direct to various Armed Forces causes.
National Lottery Community Fund - NeAn/2/3 - On Track - clearing barriers to work for Young People
£859,848 09/11/2016
36
The funding will support a project that aims to deliver a countywide, end-to-end, life coaching, vocational training, education, work placement and support service for young people not in education, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - NeAn/2/3 - On Track
£50,000 26/04/2016
12
The funding will be used to develop work with partners and networks, a new client management system, meeting and consultation events, staff costs and professional fees, legal costs and trainer ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Matthew Project
£90,300 13/06/2013
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Recovery Worker providing support and progression toward employment for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction in Norfolk
National Lottery Community Fund - The Junction
£406,462 10/11/2010
60
This continuation and expansion of an existing project aims to reduce harm caused by substance misuse and promote positive change for adults misusing drugs and alcohol. Activities include a daily ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/02/2008, number: 1122801
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/10/2007, number: 06388343
Gift Aid
  • 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 risk management 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
15 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 0 days late,
Main office

The Matthew Project
70-80 Oak Street
NORWICH
NR3 3AQ

Objectives

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:- FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN THE EAST OF ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE BY(A) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND (B) PROVIDING COUNSELLING, ADVICE, INFORMATION, SUPPORT SERVICES AND OTHER ASSISTANCE FOR THOSE IN NEED WITH THE AIM OF IMPROVING THEIR PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN THE EAST OF ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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