Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 6

No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
All female board: -3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 1

CONNORS TOY LIBRARIES

13 community toy libraries, Child Carers Toy Store lending to professionals caring for other peoples children, stock of additional needs toys for loan. Outreach staff to support vulnerable families with home visits and escorted visits to community toy libraries.

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely female
The Board has little diversity 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

www.ctlib.org.uk

toylibrary@ctlib.org.uk

07810142319

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£218	£177	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
31/03/22	£204	£175	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/21	£175	£162	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/20	£184	£165	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/19	£184	£176	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26
31/03/18	£173	£161	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£168	£165	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£157	£148	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£131	£151	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£148	£124	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£129	£123	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£107	£84	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£130	£139	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£156	£174	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Recreation
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides services

Where it operates

Portsmouth City,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
21 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£395,232
Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£16,000
BBC Children in Need	£11,062

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£750	31/10/2022	Core costs
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Connors Toy Libraries
£13,000	04/07/2022	Personal Livery Giving Award 2022 (unrestricted)
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Connors Toy Library
£3,000	17/03/2021 12	Small Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Connors Toy Libraries
£395,232	15/03/2021	This project assists local and vulnerable families by providing a range of support services including mobile ‘stay and play’ toy libraries and outreach sessions. The aim is to help improve ....more This project assists local and vulnerable families by providing a range of support services including mobile ‘stay and play’ toy libraries and outreach sessions. The aim is to help improve parents’ skills and confidence and encourage child development by providing advice and support around appropriate play and activities and healthy eating.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Connors Toy Libraries
£11,062	20/03/2020 36	This project will provide toy lending library services to children and young people affected by domestic abuse within refuges and family homes. Children will develop trust in other adults, have ....more This project will provide toy lending library services to children and young people affected by domestic abuse within refuges and family homes. Children will develop trust in other adults, have improved social skills and emotional wellbeing.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	07/02/2020	Outreach and Early Intervention Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Connors Toy Library
£421,379	10/01/2018 36	The project will provide support, advice and signposting for parents/carers, pre-school and special needs children across Portsmouth. Its aim to support child development and improve parenting skills ....more The project will provide support, advice and signposting for parents/carers, pre-school and special needs children across Portsmouth. Its aim to support child development and improve parenting skills through community stay and play, and toy loan sessions. Delivered in a safe environment, it will encourage the community to come together and provide families with the opportunity to engage in play and craft activities. This will also help identify any parental concerns or issues at an earlier stage.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000	31/07/2017	Early Intervention Project
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Connors Toy Library
£20,000	09/06/2016 24	towards two years' running costs of an organisation that provides outreach, early intervention and community toy libraries for deprived families in Portsmouth
National Lottery Community Fund - Connors Toy Library
£361,796	12/01/2015 36	Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Connors Toy Libraries
£27,500	29/01/2014	This charity provides toy libraries across Portsmouth with outreach and individual support for vulnerable families to participate and to access wider services. This request is to for early ....more This charity provides toy libraries across Portsmouth with outreach and individual support for vulnerable families to participate and to access wider services. This request is to for early intervention for families identified as experiencing difficulties
National Lottery Community Fund - Connors Toy Libraries
£291,782	13/03/2012 36	Connors Toy Libraries aims to support vulnerable and hard-to-reach families across Portsmouth. Parents are encouraged to volunteer to run the libraries, where families can meet, gain qualifications, ....more Connors Toy Libraries aims to support vulnerable and hard-to-reach families across Portsmouth. Parents are encouraged to volunteer to run the libraries, where families can meet, gain qualifications, and become more active in their communities. The expanding initiative will address isolation, depression, delayed development and low confidence among parents and children caused by new parenthood and deprivation. Issues also include neglect, substance misuse, domestic abuse and mental health problems.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-51

CORALEE GRAHAM Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Manager

JESSICA TRIBBECK Appointed: 2020

JOANNE JELLY Appointed: 2023

GILLIAN MARY LYDFORD (Chair) Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Shop Assistant

MELANIE PALMER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Housewife

ROBERTA JANE AUSTIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: House Wife

SARAH LE MAY, Occupation: Driving Instructor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/04/2009, number: 1129353
Registered at Companies House on 07/04/2009, number: 06872236

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
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

14 returns made; all on time

Main office

Connors Toy Library
Grenville House
St. Georges Square
Portsmouth
PO1 3AZ

Objectives

A) TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE RECREATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, THERAPEUTIC AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF:1. CHILDREN2. CHILD AND ADULT CARERS OF PERSONS WHOA RE DISABLED, LONG TERM SICK OR ELDERLY.3. DISABLED, LONG TERM SICK AND ELDERLY PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF CARE.IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.B) TO PROMOTE BETTER CARE AND UPBRINGING OF CHILDREN.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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