Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 12

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 15

RESTART LIVES

RESTART LIVES' objectives are to help London's homeless break the cycle of homelessness, to move from the streets, confront the issues obstructing their futures and return to society as empowered, resilient human beings in employment and living independently in their own accommodation.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified 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: 15 years

http://www.restartlives.org

email@restartlives.org

020 3778 1518

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
28/02/23		£221	£109	£112	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
28/02/22		£242	£130	£112	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
28/02/21		£133	£131	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
29/02/20		£133	£95	£38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	140
28/02/19		£63	£67	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	120
28/02/18		£114	£97	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/17		£108	£101	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/16		£250	£231	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/15	*	£138	£162	£-24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/14	*	£50	£48	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/13		£51	£52	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/12		£41	£41	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/11		£16	£16	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/10	*	£10	£10	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
100 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

Lloyds Bank Foundation	£52,250
National Lottery Community Fund	£29,000
City Bridge Trust	£23,066
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government	£10,000
Department for Work and Pensions	£9,938

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Restart Lives
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Department for Work and Pensions - ST SPECIALIST SERVICES LIMMITED
£3,733	01/04/2022	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Restart Lives
£50,000	08/09/2021 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Restart Lives
National Lottery Community Fund - Character Through Cricket London
£10,000	13/08/2021	The funding is being used to provide employable skills training for young people from the BAME community. This will use sport as a vehicle help people to access job opportunities and reach their ....more The funding is being used to provide employable skills training for young people from the BAME community. This will use sport as a vehicle help people to access job opportunities and reach their potential.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	06/08/2021	Restart's Regain Programme
Department for Work and Pensions - STUDIO TRIPTYCH
£6,206	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.
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling & Mentoring and Befriending
£9,000	13/11/2020 6	The funding will be used to deliver a mentoring befriending and counselling service for people experiencing homelessness. The project aims to support their mental health and wellbeing during Covid-19.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Restart Lives
£23,066	02/06/2020	A grant of £23,066.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£10,000	07/05/2020	Organisations supporting homelessness
National Lottery Community Fund - RESTART Mentoring & Counselling
£10,000	03/09/2019 12	RESTART Mentoring & Counselling
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	25/07/2018	The REGAIN Programme
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Restart Lives
£11,400	17/05/2017 12	Restart Lives provides programmes to help people move from homelessness into accommodation and employment. It is seeking funding to extend the post of managing director from part to full time for 6 ....more Restart Lives provides programmes to help people move from homelessness into accommodation and employment. It is seeking funding to extend the post of managing director from part to full time for 6 months to take forward the charity's development
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	10/05/2017	The Regain Programme
London Catalyst - Astell Foundation (now Restart) - 1
£3,000	11/06/2014	programme to help homeless people address issues facing them and way forward

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-69

ANAND DANI Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Executive

ANDREW MARSHALL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Property

DAVID PYLE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Headteacher

JENNA SOAME Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Charity Project Manager

MARINA ABEL-SMITH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Charity Fundraiser

MARK VELDON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Managing Director

NICK GANDON Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: CHARACTER THROUGH CRICKET CHARITY,

PETE GIBBONS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Company Director

ROBERT MILLS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director

SONYA LEYDECKER (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/03/2009, number: 1128848
Registered at Companies House on 02/02/2009, number: 06807567

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
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

14 returns made; AR15: 20 days late, AR14: 32 days late, AR10: 15 days late,

Main office

Flat 5
69 Onslow Square
LONDON
SW7 3LS

Objectives

3.1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF HOUSING AND OTHER AMENITIES AND SERVICES3.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WORLD-WIDE ON ISSUES RELATING TO POVERTY, CITIZENSHIP ANDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT3.3. FURTHERANCE OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHERCHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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