Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

BARNET LONE PARENT CENTRE 

Specialist benefits and general advice for Lone Parents and the local community Finchley Community Toy Library with toddler stay and playVolunteer Programme
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 16 years

www.blpc.org.uk

nina.gentry@blpc.org.uk

07592048330

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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£65£97£-32n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22*£83£101£-18n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£78£76£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£91£59£32n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/19£54£50£3n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£61£53£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£60£53£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£66£45£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£48£35£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£34£27£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£32£32£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£36£33£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£30£32£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£32£38£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£42£25£17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Trust for London£69,348
John Lyon's Charity£51,000
The London Community Foundation£15,186
National Lottery Community Fund£9,982
DCMS£9,195
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£1,400
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Finchley Community Toy Library
£9,982 26/05/2023
The funding will be used to continue running stay and play sessions for families at the community toy library. The project aims to reduce social isolation and financial exclusion whilst creating ....more
Trust for London - Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£3,600 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2021-8964
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£1,400 09/08/2022
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Trust for London - Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£60,000 09/06/2021
30
This funding is towards the salary, Employers National Insurance and on costs of the Senior Adviser to work on the Help with Money project, providing specialist welfare and benefits advice to lone ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£15,186 23/03/2021
11
This funding is for a Peabody project to pay the annual salary, Employers National Insurance and Pension contributions of our part time Welfare, benefits and Money adviser. This post was previously ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,195 18/09/2020
"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
Trust for London - Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£5,748 29/07/2020
6
The funding is for the costs of hiring additional space within a community centre to deliver face to face advice to vulnerable people without digital skills and/or internet access, in response to ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£51,000 13/11/2019
36
Finchley Community Toy Library
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£89,000 13/03/2019
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Services Manager at a project providing money advice and social drop-in services for lone parent families in deprived areas of the ....more
Trust for London - Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£50,000 20/02/2019
24
The funding is for part of the salary and on-costs for the Family Welfare Advisor who runs the Help with Money project. This provides advice to lone parents and local people in need.
National Lottery Community Fund - Finchley Community Toy Library
£9,924 21/02/2018
12
The project will provide a toy library and stay and play group to support the development of children and families. This will help reduce isolation and improve wellbeing.
Sport England - TIED - Get Fit Be Happy
£7,995 04/01/2018
14
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled TIED - Get Fit Be Happy. This project lists its main activity as ....more
DCMS - ALB-TIED - Get Fit Be Happy
£7,995 04/01/2018
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'TIED - Get Fit Be Happy'. This project lists its main activity ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£65,800 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' salary of the Services Manager at a project providing money advice and social drop-in services for lone parent families in deprived areas of the London Borough of Barnet
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Barnet Lone Parent Centre
£24,000 28/06/2013
The charity offers support to lone parents in Barnet to improve their quality of life. The charity's services enable lone parents to gain the benefits they are entitled to, reduce their isolation ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/09/2008, number: 1125818
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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; AR22: 17 days late, AR12: 41 days late, AR09: 194 days late,
Main office

GREEN MAN COMMUNITY CENTRE
STRAWBERRY VALE
LONDON
N2 9BA

Objectives

1 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF LONE PARENT FAMILIES BY THE PROVISION OF FREE ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE.2 TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM LONE PARENT FAMILIES, UP TO THE AGE OF 19 OR 25 IF THEY HAVE DISABILITIES, LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES TO LONE PARENT FAMILIES AS A MEANS OF:A ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALSB PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS3 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG LONE PARENT FAMILIES LIVING OR WORKING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS/SERVICE/ADVICE WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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