Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

RIVERBANK TRUST 

The charity befriends, supports and restores vulnerable women by:running weekly Mothers and Toddlers groups;working with disadvantaged children, mostly from single parent families;supplying new mothers with care packages; andproviding support in several other practical areas.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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*£249£175£75n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£174£159£15n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£179£161£18n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£159£158£1n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/19£154£152£2n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/18£123£132£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£105£128£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£106£103£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£89£86£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£94£84£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£82£47£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£33£17£16£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 years

www.riverbanktrust.org

jameslowther@kick.org.uk

07866750532

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Richmond Upon Thames,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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
Home Office£402,351
Joseph Rank Trust£37,500
CAF£3,000
The London Community Foundation£2,989
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Joseph Rank Trust - Riverbank Trust, Richmond
£37,500 25/04/2022
To fund the core costs of the charity
Home Office - Resettlement Programme - Post Arrival Support
£384,704 19/04/2021
The UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) started in March 2021 and reaffirms the UKs ongoing commitment to refugee resettlement. Resettlement relies on collaborative working with local authorities to ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Riverbank Trust
£2,989 18/02/2021
6
The funding is for (1) 'school packs' (syllabus book, games etc) for our beneficiaries (vulnerable children and mothers) we serve remotely due to C19 school closures, and (2) technological costs ....more
CAF - Grant to Riverbank Trust
£3,000 29/04/2020
3
Grant to Riverbank Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
Home Office - Resettlement Programme - Post Arrival Support
£17,647 01/04/2020
36
This grant stream is for the provision of post-arrival services to arrivals under these schemes through tariff/per capita payments. At present the majority of arrivals are being supported by local ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 23-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/09/2011, number: 1143758
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/03/2011, number: 07548705
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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; AR23: 37 days late,
Main office

Holy Trinity Church Centre
Sheen Park
RICHMOND
Surrey
TW9 1UP

Objectives

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND CARE FOR VULNERABLE WOMEN AND OTHER NEEDY PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES OR ELSEWHERE AT THE TRUSTEES' DISCRETION.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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