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Governance Score: 0
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    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    ITS YOUR CHOICE LIMITED 

    Established: 12 years
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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
    31/03/21£317£291£26n/an/an/an/an/a12
    31/03/20£192£201£-9n/an/an/an/an/a15
    31/03/19£261£260£1n/an/an/an/an/a18
    31/03/18£310£286£24£0£0£0n/a017
    31/03/17£306£299£8£0£0£0n/a020
    31/03/16£337£336£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£326£324£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£437£334£103£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • Recreation
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Hampshire,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 12 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£112,812
    Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
    Masonic Trust£15,000
    CAF£3,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Indigo Trust - Youth Charity
    £2,000 16/12/2020
    Core unrestricted funding for its youth work
    National Lottery Community Fund - Focused Intervention
    £112,812 24/06/2020
    5
    It’s Your Choice is a youth organisation supporting young people aged 11-25 across the New Forest. The funding will be used to meet an increase in demand due to the pandemic whilst also covering ....more
    CAF - Grant to It's Your Choice
    £3,000 29/05/2020
    3
    Grant to It's Your Choice to support the organisation through COVID19
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
    £25,000 20/03/2020
    It's Your Choice - Confidential free support, guidance, advice and counselling for young people in the New Forest area.
    Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
    £15,000 07/06/2019
    Unrestricted core funding for small charities
    The Blagrave Trust - Information, Advice and Guidance for young homeless people 18-25
    £75,000 30/06/2018
    Information and advice for young people facing a range of challenges
    Tudor Trust - Grant to It's Your Choice
    £30,000 05/10/2017
    12
    over one year as a continuation grant towards reserves for a charity working with young people acrioss the New Forest and surrounding area
    Comic Relief - Funding the Future
    £39,848 30/11/2016
    24
    It's Your Choice' runs support services for young people aged 12-25 years old who live in the New Forest. It has a base in Totton, but reaches young people in villages and rural areas by operating ....more
    The Blagrave Trust - Text messaging for feedback
    £3,908 09/08/2016
    Feedback Fund 2016
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to It's Your Choice
    £15,000 22/03/2016
    12
    It's Your Choice is requesting funding for Back on Track, a 1yr pilot programme supporting NEET young people in the New Forest experiencing homelessness and other needs to become empowered to break ....more
    The Blagrave Trust - Advice, guidance and support
    £114,000 08/03/2016
    Homeless and at risk 18-25 year olds
    National Lottery Community Fund - Healthy Transitions - Counselling for 18-25 year olds in Hampshire
    £499,703 26/08/2015
    36
    It’s Your Choice will work with six partner organisations for this project providing counselling services for young people aged 18-25 with emotional or mental health concerns across Hampshire. ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to It's Your Choice
    £45,000 11/06/2015
    36
    towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to homeless, high risk young people in the New Forest, Hampshire
    Tudor Trust - Grant to It's Your Choice
    £75,000 28/10/2014
    36
    over three years as continuation funding towards the core costs of a charity providing a range of support to vulnerable young people across the New Forest
    National Lottery Community Fund - It's Your Choice - Outreach
    £199,344 13/09/2011
    60
    This project is to provide a new outreach programme for young people in the New Forest area. Four new outreach venues will be developed to offer young people a place where they can access ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2012, number: 1148418
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    9 returns made; all on time
    Main office


    Objectives

    TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A COUNSELLING SERVICE IN THE NEW FOREST DISTRICT FOR THE GIVING OF SUCH PERSONS OF COUNSELLING AND PRACTICAL ADVICE.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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