Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +7
    Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

    ACTIVITEENS 

    The Charity is established to advance in life and relieve needs of young people who have need byreason of their youth, age, poverty or social and economic circumstances, especially but notexclusively those living in the boroughs of Hackney and Haringey.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    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

    mail@activiteens.org

    020 3745 0997

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?

    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
    31/05/23£122£121£1n/an/an/an/an/a17
    31/05/22£109£104£4n/an/an/an/an/a13
    31/05/21£113£113£1n/an/an/an/an/a13
    31/05/20£66£67£-2n/an/an/an/an/a11
    31/05/19£72£66£5n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/05/18£71£64£7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/17£48£44£4£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/16£51£57£-6£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/15*£55£42£14£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/14£70£83£-13£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/13£50£46£4£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/12£26£24£2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/11£45£48£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/05/10£97£75£22£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Listed activities
    • Amateur Sport
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Education/Training
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Barnet, Hackney, Haringey,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • People With Disabilities
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 17 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£30,000
    People's Health Trust£13,888
    Sport England£13,666
    Hackney CVS£10,061
    The London Community Foundation£8,325
    The Clothworkers Foundation£7,100
    Cheshire Community Foundation£4,960
    Hackney Council£4,420
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving and LBH Cost of Living
    £5,061 09/11/2023
    Project will empower our young people struggling disproportionately from the crisis to prepare budget-friendly meals to feed themselves and their families.
    Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
    £1,500 31/10/2023
    Core costs
    National Lottery Community Fund - MH - I am worth a million
    £10,000 28/07/2023
    The funding will used to provide summer sport singing and craft activities for young people. The project aims to improve confidence skills and wellbeing providing an alternative to antisocial ....more
    Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving and LBH Cost of Living
    £5,000 31/01/2023
    Cookery sessions for young people with meals to take home
    National Lottery Community Fund - Be wise. Economize
    £10,000 16/09/2022
    This project will continue providing cookery classes to support young people to learn how to prepare budget meals for their families. The project will develop a new element which will see young ....more
    The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Activiteens
    £7,100 14/07/2022
    purchase kitchen and musical equipment for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in Hackney
    Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Tap To The Beat- Long Live The Queen
    £6,140 31/05/2022
    This project will engage in weekly 1-hour movement and dance club sessions for 20 weeks which will be led by dance instructors and showcased in an event celebrating the Queen’s Platinum ....more
    Cheshire Community Foundation - I will Triumph
    £4,960 18/10/2021
    At Activiteens we aim to support the needs of our beneficiaries as they evolve and in the last year and a half these have continuously evolved with the pandemic affecting young people emotionally in ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - 'Coming Through Covid Healthier'
    £10,000 12/03/2021
    12
    The funding will be used to fully equip a purpose-built kitchen for younger people in the Jewish community. The project aims to teach the young people to prepare cost effective healthy meals working ....more
    People's Health Trust - 'Hi Team Player'
    £13,888 03/02/2021
    24
    The two-year project delivers puppetry sessions for young people (girls) from the Orthodox Jewish Community in Hackney to develop their drama skills and create their puppets as well as game sessions ....more
    Sport England - TGC CF - I love to Live Healthy
    £7,526 21/12/2020
    11
    This project will engage up to 84 inactive young women with low body confidence in a programme of aerobics sessions.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Activiteens
    £2,952 17/06/2020
    6
    COVID19 - This grant will fund the remote delivery of drama and script writing sessions to children from low income families from the Orthodox Jewish Community who are isolated at home due to ....more
    The London Community Foundation - Grant to Activiteens
    £8,325 10/06/2020
    The funding is to provide an exciting, culturally-appropriate games club over a 16-week period to 64 underprivileged 15-16 year-old Orthodox-Jewish girls for whom the impacts of Covid-19 have been ....more
    Hackney Council - Grant to Activiteens
    £4,420 10/12/2019
    12
    "Cook Happy; Cook Healthy" will be an after-school cookery club empowering 60 Charedi young people who are leading unhealthy lifestyles and are/at risk of becoming overweight to prepare ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Yes I have a future
    £9,993 11/04/2019
    12
    The project will deliver extra-curricular tutoring for school children. The aim is to equip children with support in achieving their academic potential.
    Woodward Charitable Trust - Arts activities for and run by young people
    £1,000 22/03/2019
    Towards arts activities for and run by young people.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Activiteens
    £19,940 30/07/2018
    24
    Dance, music, drama and production skills for 105 young women aged 11-16 from Orthodox Jewish communities in Hackney. Activities will increase young women's self-belief, develop their skills and ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - I am a shining star
    £9,950 21/03/2018
    12
    The funding will be used to host a range of activities to bring together young people from Orthodox Jewish communities. The project aims to to improve physical, social and emotional wellbeing through ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Activiteens
    £2,470 21/03/2016
    towards a day trip to a wildlife park for a group of disadvantaged children from London
    The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2015
    £5,000 18/12/2015
    Teens Have Talent will stimulate and inspire young people to get actively involved in art, through a range of classes, workshops and training sessions. The project will employ artists in a range of ....more
    The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2014
    £10,000 18/12/2014
    Teens Have Talent will stimulate and inspire young people to get actively involved in art, through a range of classes, workshops and training sessions. The project will employ artists in a range of ....more
    The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2013
    £12,000 18/12/2013
    Teens Have Talent will stimulate and inspire young people to get actively involved in art, through a range of classes, workshops and training sessions. The project will employ artists in a range of ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/05/2009, number: 1129447
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • 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: 1 days late,
    Main office

    93 ALKHAM ROAD
    LONDON
    N16 6XD

    Objectives

    TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE,POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE LIVING IN THEBOROUGHS OF HACKNEY AND HARINGEY THROUGH:(A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIALWELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TOENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OFFACILITIES NOT REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY.(D) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FORRECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASONOF THEIR YOUTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIRCONDITIONS OF LIFE.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    HACKNEY AND HARINGEY

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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