Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: -6

Support Score: 2

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Static board: -3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -10

FREE THE CHILDREN UK

The charity?s activities are: ? To advance in life and help young people by providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.? To relieve poverty, advance education, relieve sickness and promote and protect good health.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board composition appears to be rather static and 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
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 14 years

https://www.we.org/gb/

ukyouth@we.org

07720287516

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/08/23	£5	£257	£-252	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/22	£214	£121	£93	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/21	£147	£636	£-488	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/20	£3,270	£5,881	£-2,611	£17	£890	£500	1	36	400
31/08/19?	£5,199	£5,051	£149	£38	£3,501	£1,016	2.4	25	500
31/03/18	£3,038	£3,167	£-129	£44	£3,353	£746	2.8	35	0
31/03/17	£3,306	£2,807	£500	£35	£3,481	£1,119	4.8	38	0
31/03/16	£4,203	£3,099	£1,104	£29	£2,982	£1,200	4.6	37	0
31/03/15	£3,414	£2,625	£788	£48	£1,934	£278	1.3	26	0
31/03/14	£2,377	£2,166	£212	£1,496	£1,146	£158	0.9	15	0
31/03/13	£1,246	£1,233	£13	£26	£934	£205	2	9	0
31/03/12?	£606	£575	£31	£16	£921	£79	1.7	5	0
31/07/11	£1,315	£425	£890	£27	£890	£34	0.9	4	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - WE Schools Local
£925,000	07/03/2019 36	WE Schools Local
National Lottery Community Fund - WE Schools
£1,001,600	26/10/2017 36	WE Schools
Greater London Authority - Grant to Free the Children UK
£90,000	18/09/2017	Team London Young Ambassadors Programme
Greater London Authority - Grant to Free the Children UK
£830,000	18/09/2015	Team London Young Ambassadors Programme
ZING - Core programme funding
£50,000	01/05/2015 12	Core funding in support of their programme to empower young people to become agents of change

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 53-66

CRAIG BURKINSHAW Appointed: 2013, Occupation: None

CARLOS VITORINO PINTO Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Banker

LORD RUMI VERJEE (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Entrepreneur

NEIL ROSKILLY Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired Chief Executive, Other trusteeships: CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL FEES CHARITABLE TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/10/2010, number: 1138645
Registered at Companies House on 07/07/2010, number: 07306686

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

13 returns made; all on time

Main office

1-4 Kings Parade
Lower Coombe Street
CROYDON
CR0 1AA

Objectives

4 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: (1) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. (2) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH. (3) SUCH OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, PROVIDED THAT IT WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005, AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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