Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

THE PORCH PROJECT 

Drop ins held in Hadleigh & Gt Cornard. Social activities with hot and cold snacks offered at no cost to attendees. Youth Workers offer support & a friendly face at 1-2-1's, coaching and educational programmes. Siblings and parents are included in supporting family life, skills and knowledge. C Card registered to provide confidential sexual health advice. Community ethos embedded in all we do.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 13 years

www.porchproject.co.uk

mike.grimwood@porchproject.com

01473 823523

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
28/02/23?*£163£360£-197n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/12/21£180£165£15n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/12/20£153£116£37n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/12/19£127£98£29n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/12/18£102£91£11£0£0£0n/a014
31/12/17£119£89£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£122£80£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£74£57£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£60£67£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£46£44£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12*£56£56£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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
Suffolk Community Foundation£90,618
DCMS£35,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 04/04/2022
Main Grants award
Suffolk Community Foundation - Personal Hygiene Scheme
£250 25/02/2021
Towards purchasing personal hygiene items needed for children, young adults and their families in need.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project Personal Hygiene Scheme
£4,412 18/02/2021
8
Support the Porch Projects Personal Hygiene Programme for vulnerable individuals and their families.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Core costs
£250 29/01/2021
To support the costs of the hygiene project.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Escape The Trap - Teenage Relationship Abuse Programme
£4,956 19/09/2020
15
Towards running six Escape the Trap programmes regarding teenage relationship abuse.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£30,000 09/09/2020
"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
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
£5,000 21/08/2020
6
Towards the core costs of running the Porch Project in Hadleigh during Covid 19.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 21/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 10/02/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project Youth Council
£4,750 21/11/2019
12
To support the Porch Project Youth Council.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
£20,000 31/10/2019
17
To support a new youth worker.
Suffolk Community Foundation - A New Horizon
£20,000 02/08/2019
10
Towards the New Horizon project.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
£6,000 02/07/2019
10
To offer stay safe online to local young people.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project
£20,000 11/06/2019
11
Towards youthworker costs of supporting young people in Gt Cornard.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
£5,000 14/05/2019
12
Grant to Porch Project
Suffolk Community Foundation - Core costs
£10,000 25/03/2019
12
Towards core costs of the Porch Project.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
£10,000 13/03/2019
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing holistic support for young people in Suffolk
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 05/12/2018
Porch Project
Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project
£5,000 15/06/2018
11
Towards weekly drop-in youth sessions in Hadleigh and Great Cornard, providing a safe place for young people to meet and socialise.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project
£20,000 13/06/2018
11
Towards the youth workers salaries.
Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
£5,040 16/01/2018
12
To train staff to deliver online safety workshops at schools and within drop-in sessions.
Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
£4,000 14/12/2017
5
To provide youth workers to continue with their youth drop in sessions.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Venture
£3,000 06/12/2017
12
To support Venture an outdoor educational experience for young people.
Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
£15,000 30/11/2017
12
Towards the salaries of the youth workers to support young people.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
£10,000 16/06/2017
Towards one year's salary costs of a youth worker at a project providing holistic support for young people in Suffolk
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
£10,000 08/06/2017
12
towards one year's salaries of Youth Workers at a project providing holistic support for young people in rural areas of Suffolk
Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
£5,000 16/02/2017
Towards weekly drop-in youth sessions in Hadleigh and Great Cornard, providing a safe place for young people to meet and socialise.
Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
£3,000 23/01/2017
Towards supporting core salary costs to enable young people to have a safe place to go in Sudbury and Gt Cornard.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
£10,000 10/03/2016
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing holistic support services to young people in Suffolk
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
£5,500 12/09/2013
towards one year's salary of a Youth Work Coordinator at a project providing holistic support for disadvantaged young people in Suffolk
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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: 48-63
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2011, number: 1143203
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/03/2011, number: 07561228
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR23: 76 days late, AR12: 6 days late,
Main office

Heathpatch Ltd
Dairy Farm Office
Dairy Road
Semer
IPSWICH
IP7 6RA

Objectives

TO SUPPORT, HELP AND INSPIRE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WHO LIVE, ARE EDUCATED, TRAINED AND/OR EMPLOYED IN THE HADLEIGH/GT CORNARD AREA OF SUFFOLK AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES THROUGH: 1. PROVIDING SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO MEET, SOCIALISE AND PROMOTE OUR SERVICES DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING. 2. PROVIDING 1-2-1 SUPPORT, GROUP PROGRAMMES, LIFE SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY CONSIDERED OUT OF THEIR REACH RESULTING IN HIGHER SELF-ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE TO ENABLE TO ENABLE THEM TO BE A COHESIVE ELEMENT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, ENCOURAGING CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS TO SUPPORT OTHER AGE GROUPS/VULNERABILITIES.?

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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