Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 12
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

YOUNG & INSPIRED LTD 

Young & Inspired advocates for children and families facing poverty or adverse childhood circumstances and provides wraparound support throughout their childhood and as they transition into independent adults. Programs Include:Conquer The Kitchen program, empowering very young mothers to cook wholesome food economically,Flying Colours Arts, Sunshine Breakfast Club, Water Sports, Holiday Club
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are only 3 trustees

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
31/01/23£609£516£92£4£168£1683.9342
31/01/22£333£260£73n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/01/21£235£381£-147n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/01/20£437£416£21n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/01/19£819£670£149£10£171£1713.1320
31/01/18£358£346£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/17£170£219£-49£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/16£220£159£61£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/15£204£256£-52£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/14£202£138£64£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/13£69£60£9£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 3.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: INF
Asset Split ?
Established: 12 years

www.youngandinspired.org.uk

info@youngandinspired.org.uk

020 3475 2134

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hackney, Haringey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 3 employees
  • 42 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£75,716
The Childhood Trust£57,623
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Hackney Council£19,202
DCMS£13,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£11,000
Department for Work and Pensions£10,703
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Savvy & Successful
£3,500 23/05/2023
Grant to Young & Inspired
Hackney Council - Grant to Young & Inspired Ltd
£14,202 19/04/2023
Flying Colours
National Lottery Community Fund - Super Eats (Inspired from Uber Eats)
£9,959 16/12/2022
The funding will be used to provide hot meals to the community. The project aims to support and advice families most in need during the cost of living crisis.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Young and Inspired
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Young and Inspired
£4,850 07/12/2022
to support the Mind Your Own Business programme which supports young women and teenage mothers to access entry to employment and develop healthy relationships and attitudes about money.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Young and Inspired
£1,000 30/11/2022
Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in London
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Young and Inspired
£10,000 14/09/2022
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in London
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Young and Inspired
£50,000 14/09/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Young and Inspired
The Childhood Trust - C-59110
£15,412 28/06/2022
Treehouse Teens: Sunday and holiday play-scheme club focused on granting a safe space, filling foods and building positive mental health tools, targeting young people coping with poverty and mental ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£20,000 20/05/2022
Conquer The Kitchen
Department for Work and Pensions - KNOW HOW TRAINING LIMMITED
£10,703 01/04/2022
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
National Lottery Community Fund - Jubilee and Jewry: celebrating social equality for British Jewry-
£45,757 03/03/2022
The organisation will use this funding to connect young people with local older people. They will explore emancipation for British Jewry since the 1600s and how social equality improved since Her ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to Young & Inspired Ltd
£5,000 11/08/2021
Treehouse Teens
The Childhood Trust - Treehouse Teens: Live and virtual youth club.
£15,012 22/06/2021
Treehouse Teens: Sunday and holiday play-scheme club (live and virtually) focused on granting a safe space, building positive mental health tools and offering supportive social forum for young people ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£20,000 11/06/2021
Conquer The Kitchen
National Lottery Community Fund - Treehouse Teens
£10,000 19/03/2021
11
This project will support young people who have been negatively impacted by Covid with increased poverty vulnerability and loneliness. It will run out of school hours programme that supports 120 ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 07/10/2020
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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 14/09/2020
"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
The Childhood Trust - DMC (Drama Makes Me Calmer) Summer Camp
£15,199 03/07/2020
An opportunity for multiply disadvantaged children, who are stressed out due to severe poverty, learning difficulties or family issues and thus under-performing (socially, scholastically and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Pal Peers
£10,000 24/01/2020
12
The funding will be used to provide a support group and mentoring programme for young children. The project aims to equip young people to develop emotional self-awareness and positive mental health.
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2019
£12,000 17/06/2019
An opportunity for multiply disadvantaged children, who are stressed out due to severe poverty, learning difficulties or family issues and thus under-performing (socially, scholastically and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Young and Inspired
£6,580 19/11/2018
We'd like to spend funds on a cookery teacher to advise on our Conquer the Kitchens sessions and pay for items such as first aid training.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 25/07/2018
Conquer the Kitchen
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2018
£12,000 15/06/2018
An opportunity for multiply disadvantaged children, who are stressed out due to severe poverty, learning difficulties or family issues and thus under-performing (socially, scholastically and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Conquer the Kitchen
£10,000 12/07/2017
12
This project will run cookery classes for young people which will incorporate shopping and budgeting skills and nutrition techniques, enabling them to develop skills leading to a healthier lifestyle.
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2017
£17,500 19/05/2017
An opportunity for multiply disadvantaged children, who are stressed out due to severe poverty, learning difficulties or family issues and thus under-performing (socially, scholastically and ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2015
£30,000 18/12/2015
Every summer, Young & Inspired run a two-week residential holiday for disadvantaged teens in Hackney and surrounding areas.
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2014
£27,500 18/12/2014
Every summer, Young & Inspired run a two-week residential holiday for disadvantaged teens in Hackney and surrounding areas.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunshine Breakfast Club
£10,000 27/08/2014
12
Not Available
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2013
£25,000 18/12/2013
We would like to run a daily breakfast club for 80 disadvantaged and deprived children age 6-13.
National Lottery Community Fund - Boy's Adventure Programme
£10,000 01/04/2011
12
This is a project by a community group in Hackney. The group will use funding to provide a summer residential activity holiday for local boys from disadvantaged backgrounds. This will broaden the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-66
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/01/2012, number: 1145639
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/01/2011, number: 07493381
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 policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

26 CLAPTON COMMON
LONDON
E5 9BA

Objectives

1) THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE.2) 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.3) THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES SUCH AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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