Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

K.C.U. LTD 

KCU (Kettering Community Unit) is a community support charityproviding the following -Free training and education courses to support people into employment or to improve their quality of life -Furniture re-cycling, low cost household goods to those in need via our charity shops-Food bank operations to support those in food poverty Our ethos is that everyone in our community matters .
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
(18 years as a company)

www.kcultd.co.uk

lynn.chapman@kcultd.org.uk

01536481989

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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
31/03/23£314£228£85n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/22£216£210£6n/an/an/an/an/a65
31/03/21£327£185£142n/an/an/an/an/a65
31/03/20£160£160£0n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/19£144£144£1n/an/an/an/an/a65
31/03/18£111£113£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£123£139£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£95£117£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£172£128£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£118£123£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£77£123£-45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£106£104£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£106£120£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£70£79£-9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northamptonshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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
Henry Smith Charity£108,000
DCMS£35,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Tudor Trust£7,350
The Trussell Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Kettering & District Foodbank
£5,000 26/10/2022
Emergency grant
Tudor Trust - Grant to KCU Ltd
£2,000 15/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£35,500 05/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 21/08/2020
Improving quality of life
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Crisis food delivery
£2,838 31/03/2020
9
To deliver food via home delivery to vulnerable and disadvantaged clients.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to KCU Limited
£108,000 19/03/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation which aims to relieve and prevent social and economic disadvantage in Kettering
Tudor Trust - Grant to KCU Ltd
£5,350 09/12/2019
12
as a development grant to help an inclusive volunteering project in Kettering explore its principles, to help with decision making and evaluation
National Lottery Community Fund - Dignity in Crisis
£299,216 22/03/2019
60
The project will donate essential household goods and furniture to those in in crisis such as being rehomed as a result of domestic violence, homeless people, new parents on low incomes and those ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to KCU Ltd
£80,000 01/02/2019
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the running costs of an inclusive volunteering project in Kettering, supporting people to volunteer, mentor and befriend to increase confidence and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Holiday Rangers
£6,926 31/08/2018
12
This funding will be used to run a cooking and produce growing activity for school children, who would normally receive free school meals, during the summer holidays. The project aims to teach ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to KCU Ltd
£85,000 24/02/2016
36
over three years towards the running costs of an inclusive volunteering project at a small charity in Kettering
National Lottery Community Fund - Outcome
£10,000 11/02/2016
12
The group will use the funding to purchase new equipment for its IT suite for the use of people who are unemployed. This will build capacity for the organisation's service delivery and improve the ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to KCU Ltd
£16,600 24/02/2012
the salary costs of the Office Administrator
National Lottery Community Fund - On the move
£10,000 12/05/2011
12
This is a project by a community organisation in Kettering, Northampton. The group will use funding to carry out structural, electrical works and data cabling at the group's new premises. This will ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 50-75
  • IAN WATTS Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Company Director
  • SIMON COX Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Business Network Leader
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/08/2009, number: 1131360
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/02/2006, number: 05695511
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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR11: 23 days late,
Main office

KCU LTD
51 GOLD STREET
KETTERING
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
NN16 8JB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND ADVANCE EDUCATION INNORTHAMPTONSHIRE BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, GUIDANCE, ADVICE,TRAINING AND RELATED SERVICES.TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OFSOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OFINDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIRYOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIALCIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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