Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

LONDON RECLAIMED 

London Reclaimed is an employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people in South East London to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 3 trustees
  • 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
Established: 12 years

www.londonreclaimed.co.uk

info@londonreclaimed.co.uk

020 7237 7831

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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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
31/05/22£450£473£-22n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/05/21£272£336£-65n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/05/20£357£355£2n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/19£280£311£-30n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/18£298£278£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/17£199£218£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/16£316£195£121£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/15£71£73£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/14£64£67£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/13£35£30£6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Southwark,

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
The Michael And Betty Little Trust£295,000
The Funding Network£16,303
National Lottery Community Fund£9,928
The London Community Foundation£7,831
London Borough of Southwark£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - London Reclaimed
£35,000 01/04/2023
Employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Furniture Makers Training Programme
£9,928 13/01/2023
The funding will be used to deliver training in furniture making for young people that are not in education employment or training in the Bermondsey area. The project will provide opportunities for ....more
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - London Reclaimed
£120,000 20/11/2022
Employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - London Reclaimed
£35,000 09/08/2022
Employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - London Reclaimed
£70,000 30/06/2021
Employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to London Reclaimed
£4,000 22/06/2020
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to London Reclaimed, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to London Reclaimed
£7,831 06/05/2020
The funding is for us to provide food, through our cafe, to those who have been identified as being at high-risk financially during the Covid 19 pandemic. In partnership with Peckham Foodbank, run by ....more
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - London Reclaimed
£20,000 14/04/2020
employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making
London Borough of Southwark - Grant to London Reclaimed
£5,000 01/04/2020
COVID-19 community grants wave 1 grant from the Finance & Governance department
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - London Reclaimed
£15,000 29/03/2020
employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making
The Funding Network - Goldfinch Lines
£16,303 07/05/2019
Goldfinch Lines aims to employ, train and mentor young people in our furniture workshop, and builds a new, more accessible training program into our existing business.
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - London Reclaimed
£45,000 20/01/2019
employment charity set up to provide an opportunity for young people to step up into paid work and learn the age old tradition of furniture making
National Lottery Community Fund - London Reclaimed Furniture maker tarining
£10,000 26/03/2018
12
This project will provide employment, skills-based training and mentoring to young people at their furniture company. This will support the personal development of young people, which will help ....more
The Funding Network - Young Furniture Maker Training
£7,950 14/03/2018
We are looking to take on an administrator to help support our team who are employing, training and mentoring young people in our two social businesses.
United Saviours Charity - Young Furniture Makers Training Programme
£33,375 25/07/2016
11
Providing young Southwark residents with furniture-making and employability skills. The project uses redundant timber retrieved from across the capital. Young people will progress onto employment or ....more
The Fore - Grant to London Reclaimed
£15,000 14/04/2015
12
Grant funded London Reclaimed’s costs in moving and fitting out their new and larger premises, allowing them to double the number of ‘Junior Makers’ they take on per year, and so meet current ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-41
  • BEN DALE Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Church Youth Leader
  • TIM POWELL (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Development Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/07/2012, number: 1148279
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/09/2011, number: 07768745
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

Lumberjack
70 Camberwell Church Street
LONDON
SE5 8QZ

Objectives

CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF LOVE, ACCEPTANCE AND SECOND CHANCES WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, SEX, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINION AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND ARE RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(A)TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN SOUTH LONDON AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF LONDON, THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF TRAINING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(I)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; (II)RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; (III)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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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