Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE BEN KINSELLA TRUST 

Promote knife-crime awareness and the major threat the problem poses. To educate children of all ages of the consequences of knife crime.
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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Established: 15 years

https://benkinsella.org.uk

info@benkinsella.org.uk

02081642634

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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?£489£456£33n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/10/21£312£262£50n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/10/20£337£228£110n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/10/19£191£178£14n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/10/18£212£134£78£0£0£0n/a02
31/10/17£86£72£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/16£91£117£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/15£87£100£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/14£74£98£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/13£55£78£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/12£112£40£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/11£13£1£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/10£15£5£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/09*£76£4£72£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Nottinghamshire, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
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
The London Community Foundation£37,808
The Clothworkers Foundation£30,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,600
The Childhood Trust£12,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Ben Kinsella Trust
£250 25/09/2023
As directed by the donor towards the work of the Trust in helping communities to be safe by educating children and young people about knife crime and the consequences, through its programmes ....more
Haberdashers' Company - Uplift grant
£600 10/05/2023
Contribution to core costs in Cost of Living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling knife crime and its devastating consequences.
£10,000 21/04/2023
The funding will be used to run 20 anti-knife crime workshops for young people at exhibitions in London. The project aims to teach young people who are vulnerable to the dangers knife crime as well ....more
Haberdashers' Company - Six knife crime prevention workshops
£3,000 19/04/2023
Educating young people about knife crime and helping them to make positive choices to stay safe.
The Childhood Trust - Tackling Knife Crime and its Devastating Impact
£12,500 12/06/2022
We are raising funds for our anti-knife crime workshops for children aged 10-16. These enable young people to learn about the dangers of knife crime and empower them to make decisions to keep ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling Knife Crime and its Devastating Consequences
£9,600 21/01/2022
The funding will be used to fund anti knife crime workshops for young people. The project aims to raise awareness of the impact of knife crime.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to The Ben Kinsella Trust
£30,000 13/07/2021
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in London
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/06/2021
Tackling knife crime and its devastating consequences
The London Community Foundation - KS2 Knife Crime Lesson plans
£10,000 06/10/2020
Grant to The Ben Kinsella Trust
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The Ben Kinsella Trust
£27,808 27/04/2020
Creating a series of online interactive anti-knife crime lesson plans based on the materials used at The Ben Kinsella exhibition. Each lesson will consist of a video or cartoon and a lesson plan ....more
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 2019-20
£24,086 01/04/2019
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
Wates Foundation - Ben Kinsella Trust
£10,000 03/10/2018
Toward the core costs of running educational anti-knife workshops.
Greater London Authority - Young Londoners Fund
£49,809 01/10/2018
The Best You To run a highly interactive and motivational project involving workshops and a visit to the Ben Kinsella exhibition. Participants will develop a strong sense of self, transform ....more
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 18-19
£21,159 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
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 17-18
£11,437 01/12/2017
The fund has been set up 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. Bids have been assessed on ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/11/2008, number: 1126612
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 charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
14 returns made; AR09: 21 days late,
Main office

Hub Kings Cross
34B York Way
LONDON
N1 9AB

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE PREVENTION OF CRIME;TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE PREVENTION AND SOLUTION OF CRIME WITH A VIEW TO THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ORDER;TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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