Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 5

SMILE FOR LIFE CHILDRENS CHARITY

We support disabled and disadvantaged youngsters to live a happy and easier life. We provide specialist equipment, wonderful experiences and short breaks for families often in desperate need. Our Cafe Beam is a community coffee shop run entirely by young people with special needs providing hands on work experience, new skills and confidence to enter the world of paid employment.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
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.smileforlife.org.uk

info@smileforlife.org.uk

01912844166

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		£375	£377	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/22		£282	£275	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	48
31/03/21		£280	£165	£116	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/20	*	£254	£254	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/19		£267	£290	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/18	*	£273	£252	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£197	£205	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£183	£175	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£161	£160	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£125	£122	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£138	£139	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£159	£165	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11?		£180	£170	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/10		£229	£223	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
60 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 Ballinger Charitable Trust	£60,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£40,000
The Badur Foundation	£24,810
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland	£21,494
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Badur Foundation - Grant to Smile For Life Children's Charity
£10,000	17/03/2023	Towards the café expansion at Ouseburn Charity Farm
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£60,000	10/03/2023	Unrestricted funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	29/07/2022	Smile for Life Children's Chartiy
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£9,494	17/03/2022	Training and work experience of learning disabled young people living in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, and Sunderland
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£5,000	16/12/2021	Purchasing a new traditional Barista coffee machine for the community cafe in Gosforth
The Badur Foundation - Grant to Smile For Life Children's Charity
£14,810	01/10/2021	Towards providing a chef apprenticeship for a young person with autism
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£4,000	15/04/2021	Work placement experience for disabled young people in an allotment in Newcastle
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - providing work experience for disabled young people at a community café in Newcastle upon Tyne
£10,000	18/03/2021	providing work experience for disabled young people at a community café in Newcastle upon Tyne
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - the organisation's charitable purposes
£5,000	17/12/2020	the organisation's charitable purposes
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	25/09/2020	Smile for Life - core costs
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Custom built kitchen placements to help young people with a disability work as assistant chefs in Newcastle
£3,000	05/11/2019	Custom built kitchen placements to help young people with a disability work as assistant chefs in Newcastle
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£2,400	20/03/2019 24	towards a two night trip to an activity centre for a group of children from Newcastle upon Tyne
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£21,000	21/09/2018 12	Café Beam expansion
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£38,750	21/09/2018 36	Café Beam
National Lottery Community Fund - Enhancing the Smile for Life Community
£7,516	31/01/2018 12	The organisation will hire sessional staff to support activities and projects for a youth club for young people with learning difficulties. They will provide a fitness club, and support young people ....more The organisation will hire sessional staff to support activities and projects for a youth club for young people with learning difficulties. They will provide a fitness club, and support young people to set up a forum and plan to deliver activities they have chosen.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£3,693	04/08/2017	We want to offer supported work experience to young people with special needs so they learn new skills and gain increased confidence.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Smile for Life Children's Charity
£21,780	10/05/2017 36	This project will deliver regular "challenge days" where disabled children and young people can engage in exciting activities which improve physical and emotional development.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Towards Pop up cafe with placements for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities
£3,900	10/11/2015	Towards Pop up cafe with placements for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 63-65

ALISON PROUDFOOT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

DR JAN WELBURY

MARGERY GLEDSON (Chair) Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Independent Financial Adviser

NIGEL COATES Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Principal Lecturer, Other trusteeship: THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MARKETING CHARITABLE TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/06/2009, number: 1129935
Registered at Companies House on 21/05/2009, number: 06913129

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
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; AR20: 4 days late, AR18: 8 days late, AR17: 15 days late, AR15: 11 days late, AR14: 40 days late,

Main office

Cafe Beam
Old Fire Station
234-236 High Street
Gosforth
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE3 1HH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, SICKNESS ANDDISTRESS WHETHER PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR OTHERWISE OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND, SCOTTISH BORDERS AND OTHER AREAS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS DECIDED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND, SCOTTISH BORDERS AND OTHER AREAS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM

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