Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 12
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

ME2 CLUB 

Me2 Club enables the inclusion of children & young people with additional needs into mainstream activities. This is done through trained volunteers that provide 1-1 support. The Inclusion Training Project increases the skills, knowledge and confidence of mainstream leaders through training and advice. We also run residential trips for the children and volunteers involved in the charity.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 13 years

www.me2club.org.uk

info@me2club.org.uk

01189696369

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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£162£231£-69n/an/an/an/an/a140
31/03/22£254£232£22n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/03/21£168£191£-23n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/20£203£183£20n/an/an/an/an/a142
31/03/19£201£164£38n/an/an/an/an/a138
31/03/18£136£160£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£107£130£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£160£144£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£157£147£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£161£120£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£106£115£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£94£100£-6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
Who works here?
  • 140 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Reading, Wokingham,

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£90,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£60,000
BBC Children in Need£47,718
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
DCMS£17,240
True Colours Trust£10,000
Masonic Trust£9,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Inclusion of disabled children into mainstream activities.
£10,000 09/06/2023
The funding will be used to recruit provide specialist training and support volunteers to help children and young people aged 5-19 with additional needs. The project aims to include and inspire ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Me2 Club
£90,000 15/03/2023
36
towards three years' salary and on costs of an Activities and Volunteers Coordinator at an organisation providing support for children and young people aged 5-19 with additional needs and ....more
True Colours Trust - Towards the salary costs of an Activities and Volunteer Coordinator
£5,000 10/01/2023
Towards the salary costs of an Activities and Volunteer Coordinator
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Me2 Club
£47,718 02/09/2022
This project will empower children and young people from Wokingham, Berkshire to deliver Social Action in their community
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - ME2 CLUB - 11/08/22
£3,000 01/09/2022
Core Funding
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£9,000 30/05/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 18/03/2022
Me2 Club's Children Want To Join In Too!
National Lottery Community Fund - Me2 Club's Children Want To Join In Too!
£10,000 14/01/2022
The funding will support vulnerable families and children with disabilities aged 5 to 19 years old by providing remote support. It will offer regular phone text or email contact for every family; ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Me2 Club - 07/07/21
£1,500 28/07/2021
Volunteer 'Buddies' for Me2 Club
Cheshire Community Foundation - Me2 Club's Children Want To Join In Too!
£5,000 12/11/2020
Me2 Club addresses the challenges of isolation and exclusion of children and young people aged 5 to 19 years with wide ranging additional needs and disabilities, regardless of a formal diagnosis, by ....more
True Colours Trust - Towards salaries and management support – COVID19 response
£5,000 06/10/2020
Towards salaries and management support – COVID19 response
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 25/09/2020
Me2 Club's Children Want To Play Too!
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,740 07/07/2020
"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
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£5,000 28/02/2020
Expanding Me2 Club's leisure activities
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£2,500 28/02/2020
Expanding Me2 Clubs leisure activities. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Me2 Club
£60,000 12/06/2019
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Including Me2 Club's Children
£10,000 13/12/2018
12
The organisation will use funding to address the challenges of isolation and exclusion of children and young people with wide ranging additional needs and disabilities. The project will enable young ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 26/11/2018
Including Me2 Club’s Children
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Me2 Club
£8,522 19/11/2018
We want to recruit, train and support volunteers so children with additional needs can join in with a weekly mainstream leisure activity
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£3,500 20/06/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Listening to Me2 families
£4,580 01/03/2017
12
This funding will be used to run evaluation and monitoring work in order to implement a suitable evaluation toolkit to improve the service for children with additional needs. This will help the ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Me2 Club
£24,000 29/07/2013
Me2 matches trained young volunteers with young people with additional needs to enable them to participate in mainstream leisure activities of their choice, also working with groups to support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Inclusion for All
£188,654 14/06/2011
60
This project will enable children and young people with a learning, physical or behavioural disability, in the Wokingham area, to have equal access to mainstream out of school activity groups such as ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a Project Worker to help children
£2,500 24/07/2009
Towards a Project Worker to help children and young people with additional needs access mainstream social activities.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-54
  • SONIA AULAK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Local Authority Send Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/03/2011, number: 1140812
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/03/2011, number: 07557636
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investing charity funds 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
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

Me2 Club
Unit 9
Indigo House
Fishponds Road
Wokingham
Berkshir

Objectives

THROUGH VOLUNTEERS FROM THE COMMUNITY, TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO FAMILIES THAT INCLUDE DISABLED CHILDREN AND TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR THESE VOLUNTEERS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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