Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

SWAN YOUTH PROJECT (NORFOLK) LTD

Swan Youth Project supports over 350 young people aged 8-18 and their familiesper year with a whole variety of needs. Our work takes a holistic approach to enable us to provide wrap around support not just for the young person but also their family. These activities include Open Access sessions, Family Support, one to one support, Young Carers support plus Hygiene Bank and 'Love Downham' shop
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£267£195£73n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£157£131£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£111£72£39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£72£49£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£52£40£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£61£65£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£18£19£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£20£25£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£24£34£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£12£22£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£27£39£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£74£34£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.swanyouthproject.org

accounts@swanyouthproject.org

01366386259

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Norfolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£65,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
DCMS£18,058
BBC Children in Need£6,456
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£600 31/10/2023
Core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£30,000 16/09/2022
24
Weston Youth Grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Swan Youth Project Open Access Sessions
£10,000 30/08/2022
The funding will be used to support weekly open access sessions. The project aims refer those who need extra help onto our one to one support for mental health family support and access to our food bank and hygiene bank.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£30,000 05/11/2021
24
Weston Youth Grant
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 28/04/2021
towards enabling group and one to one support for vulnerable young people to continue over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - Support for vulnerable children in Downham Market Norfolk
£10,000 19/03/2021
12
The funding will used to provide expert support to local vulnerable children and young people aged 8-18. The project aims to improve physical and mental health of both young people and their families.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to THE SOUTH WEST NORFOLK YOUTH OPPORTUNTIES PROJECT
£6,456 30/11/2020
This project provides support groups and 1-to-1 sessions to young people living in a deprived area. This will improve emotional wellness and essential skills, and positively empower the young people.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£5,372 28/02/2020
Open Access Youth Groups
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£2,686 28/02/2020
Open Access Youth Groups. 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 financial year 2019/20
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 21/02/2020
Open Access
National Lottery Community Fund - The Roots project
£9,998 06/12/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to run a youth participation project to help young people to develop new projects and services to directly improve opportunities and services.
National Lottery Community Fund - SWAN- This is Summer!
£9,340 01/03/2017
12
The funding will be used to run a programme of activities for young people including physical activity days, outreach events and the opportunity to gain an accredited award. The project aims to provide young people with positive activities which ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-71
  • ALISON HORNBY Appointed: 2022
  • COLIN EDWARDS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Process Technician
  • HELEN LOUISE PEAK Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Accountant
  • JAMES BAGGE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/09/2011, number: 1143957
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/05/2011, number: 07639262
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR18: 399 days late, AR17: 758 days late,
Main office

Swan Youth Project (Norfolk) Ltd
Paradise Road
DOWNHAM MARKET
PE38 9JE

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN SOUTH WEST NORFOLK BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;D) RELIEVING SICKNESS AND PROMOTING AND PROTECTING GOOD MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTHE) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE WEST NORFOLK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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