Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 14
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

POSITIVE YOUTH FOUNDATION 

Provision of positive activities, leadership and support services for young people identified as being at-risk or vulnerable to a multiple of factors in relation to their personal and social development.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male
Established: 12 years

www.positiveyouthfoundation.org

info@positiveyouthfoundation.org

02476791191

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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£1,333£1,334£-1£0£895£67264030
31/03/22£1,243£1,149£94£0£900£6316.63830
31/03/21£860£816£45£0£779£6078.94225
31/03/20£1,086£892£193£0£735£5867.92730
31/03/19£881£792£89£11£541£4356.62832
31/03/18£648£611£37£0£452£3667.2300
31/03/17£417£406£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£386£339£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£494£338£155£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£293£178£115£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£254£167£86£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 75%
Reserves/Spending: 6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 5.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Coventry City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 40 employees
  • 30 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
National Lottery Community Fund£499,860
Youth Music£299,804
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£283,000
Comic Relief£86,738
BBC Children in Need£77,360
DCMS£76,340
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Positive Youth Foundation Follow on Funding
£133,000 25/10/2023
Positive Youth Foundation aims to improve the life chances of young people facing challenging circumstances. This grant provides core funding to support development of their outcomes and impact ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Go Parks initiative and Youth Leadership Programme
£40,000 13/04/2023
The Positive Youth Foundation aims to improve the life chances of young people facing challenging circumstances. Their offer includes targeted support services for refugees, asylum seekers and newly ....more
Youth Music - Changing Trax 2 (CT2)
£150,000 06/04/2023
Changing Trax 2 (CT2)
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Engagement St Michael's
£499,860 24/03/2023
This funding will be used to deliver targeted activities to young people in the St Michaels ward in Coventry. Sessions will support those facing challenging circumstances and will aim to improve ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 08/07/2022
Core Funding
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Hong Kong British National Overseas (HKBNOs) Welcome Programme
£11,682 21/07/2021
Resettlement funding for Hong Kong British nationals (overseas)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 17/03/2021
6
The Positive Youth Foundation is a Coventry based charity that aims to improve the life chances of young people facing challenging circumstances. Their offer includes targeted support services for ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
£77,360 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver mentoring support and group activities to children and young people living in a deprived area in Coventry, further isolated due to Covid-19. Outcomes include ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Enhancing sustainability, youth voice, and strategic influence
£90,000 13/07/2020
The Positive Youth Foundation is a Coventry based charity that aims to improve the life chances of young people facing challenging circumstances. It will develop its approach to evaluation and impact ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£76,340 08/07/2020
"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
Comic Relief - Positive Youth Foundation Recovery Funding
£38,995 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Comic Relief - Team Up
£47,743 03/07/2019
18
This project will target young people in Coventry who are newly arrived, in care, or have faced gender violence - the common thread is that these young people often find it hard to feel part of a ....more
Youth Music - Changing Trax
£149,804 10/05/2019
Changing Trax
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 2019-20
£28,250 01/04/2019
The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£10,000 20/12/2018
Co-designing improvements to a community space used by a range of organisations supporting young people.
Co-Op Foundation - Co-design offer
£10,000 20/12/2018
Young people will consult with other young people from a number of different local organisations and then present recommendations for tackling youth loneliness.
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Community Spaces
£10,000 20/12/2018
Co-designing improvements to a community space used by a range of organisations supporting young people.
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Codesign
£10,000 20/12/2018
Young people will consult with other young people from a number of different local organisations and then present recommendations for tackling youth loneliness.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 18-19
£28,520 03/09/2018
The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to ....more
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 17-18
£19,200 01/12/2017
The fund has been set up to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. Bids have been assessed on ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
£37,500 06/11/2017
24
over two years as continuation funding towards work with recently-arrived refugee and migrant young people in Coventry
Comic Relief - Head Positive
£147,399 27/09/2017
36
The Head Positive project will work with young people, with an emphasis on those less likely to engage such as looked after or newly arrived young people. Young person-led social action groups will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
£15,000 11/07/2017
12
This will enable the charity to engage an experience research team to produce screening and assessment tools that better inform the charity of the scale and types of challenges facing young newly ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Changing Trax
£10,000 09/05/2017
6
Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
National Lottery Community Fund - Healthy Futures
£311,010 19/10/2016
36
This new three year project is a development of a small pilot delivered by Positive Youth Foundation which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of young people living in the deprived areas of ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
£51,478 11/10/2016
36
This project will provide a sports and activities based programme for children and young people in Coventry. The aim is to improve their health and wellbeing, increase aspirations and reduce ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
£50,000 14/10/2014
24
over two years towards work with recently arrived refugee and migrant young people in the Foleshill and Hillfields area of Coventry
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
£30,000 29/04/2014
Coventry-based social enterprise that aims to raise the aspirations and life chances of young people between the age of 8 and 19 who may be in challenging circumstances. Through adapted and tailored ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Positive Youth Foundation
£37,000 17/02/2014
What You Saying?
Sport England - PYF Leadership Academy
£8,936 11/02/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'PYF Leadership Academy'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries from a BAME ....more
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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: 28-67
  • AMY FOSTER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Hr Consultant
  • CARL BINNS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Policy Advisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/01/2012, number: 1145284
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/04/2011, number: 07613299
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Techno Centre
Coventry University Technology Park
Puma Way
Coventry
CV1 2TT

Objectives

3. THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(A) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH MEMBERS OF COMMUNITIES, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE MIDLANDS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO COVENTRY WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING A NETWORK GROUP THAT ENABLE AND ENCOURAGES MEMBERS OF COMMUNITIES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE MIDLANDS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO COVENTRY TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY IN THEIR COMMUNITY USING CULTURAL PROGRAMMES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ART AND MUSIC, EDUCATIONAL AND SPORTING PROGRAMMES AS A MEANS OF GETTING PEOPLE TO TAKE PART IN JOINT ACTIVITY, IN PARTICULAR AMONG SOCIALLY OR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES PROVIDING WORKSHOPS, ADVOCACY MENTORING AND SUPPORT.(B) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH: (I) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; (II) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, INCLUDING PHYSICAL EDUCATION.(D) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (E) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE INVOLVED IN CHARITABLE YOUTH WORK BY:I. PROVIDING AND PROMOTING TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TO THOSE INVOLVED IN CHARITABLE YOUTH WORK;II. PROMOTING THE POSITIVE SOCIAL VALUE OF YOUTH WORK AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOCIAL MOBILITY;III. REPRESENTING THE VIEW OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUTH WORKERS AND;IV. EDUCATING AND SUPPORTING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORPORATE ORGANISATIONS ABOUT THE ROLE AND VALUE OF YOUTH WORK IN RELATION TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY?

Data Sources

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