Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 13

Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

No conflicts policy: -1
Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
All female board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 16

THE BOILER HOUSE COMMUNITY SPACE

Community Centre offers a safe and financially affordable common ground for the local community, voluntary , fitness and educational groups and other groups to meet as well as provide space for local people to hire for events.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely female

Established: 12 years

www.n16boilerhouse.com

info@n16boilerhouse.com

0208 806 8013

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£690	£669	£21	£6	£265	£176	3.2	19	150
31/12/21	*	£416	£410	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	150
31/12/20		£416	£317	£99	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	63
31/12/19		£306	£262	£44	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/12/18		£262	£235	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	6
31/12/17		£230	£216	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£212	£196	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£114	£108	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14	*	£70	£65	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	*	£74	£47	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Hackney,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

19 employees
150 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

Power to Change	£358,000
London Marathon Charitable Trust	£150,000
The Clothworkers Foundation	£110,000
Hackney Council	£84,722
Tudor Trust	£60,000
Greater London Authority	£55,000
City Bridge Trust	£51,900
Garfield Weston Foundation	£50,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Greater London Authority - Boiler House Community Garden
£50,000	02/12/2022	This project will create a new garden at a community centre in Stoke Newington. The project will open up a new green walking route, depave to turn grey space to green, utilise rainwater harvesting ....more This project will create a new garden at a community centre in Stoke Newington. The project will open up a new green walking route, depave to turn grey space to green, utilise rainwater harvesting and plant a forest garden.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Good Place Winter Crisis Response
£10,000	02/12/2022	Funding will be used to expand the outreach of the community engagement team offering support and daily conversations with isolated older people in the community and connecting them to services in ....more Funding will be used to expand the outreach of the community engagement team offering support and daily conversations with isolated older people in the community and connecting them to services in the area. This project also aims to continue providing hot meals and advice to vulnerable young people in the community and continue the work of their warm space offering subsidised food and support for members of the community.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£10,000	30/11/2022	Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment and expanding building for a charity supporting disadvantaged minoirty communitys in Hackney
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000	01/07/2022	Boiler House Community Space Expansion
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£100,000	15/03/2022	refurbishment and expanding building for a charity supporting disadvantaged minoirty communitys in Hackney
Tudor Trust - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£60,000	22/02/2022	towards a new purpose-built garden house and multi-use games area at a community centre on the George Downing Estate, Hackney, East London
Greater London Authority - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£5,000	11/12/2021	Community Green Space
Power to Change - Renewal - THE Boiler House Community Space
£20,000	14/05/2021	Grant to Renewal - THE Boiler House Community Space
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£46,900	22/04/2021	towards the salary and on costs of five core staff, as identified in your application
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£50,779	12/11/2020 8	CEV Funding for 3 Wards
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£21,674	12/11/2020	T&T: The consortium is led by the Boiler House, it consists of three organisations Boiler House, North London national food services and the Round Chapel Old School Rooms.
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£8,698	10/09/2020 3	DEFRA: We are requesting funding to pay for food supplies and hygiene products for families and children. We are also asking for volunteer costs; this is to cover the petrol use used for delivering ....more DEFRA: We are requesting funding to pay for food supplies and hygiene products for families and children. We are also asking for volunteer costs; this is to cover the petrol use used for delivering all the food parcels. Also, the cost of a part time cleaner.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£27,925	30/06/2020	The coordination and translation of current, evolving grassroots needs. Enabling delivery of immediate and medium term crisis response, particularly around food poverty, signposting, loneliness. To ....more The coordination and translation of current, evolving grassroots needs. Enabling delivery of immediate and medium term crisis response, particularly around food poverty, signposting, loneliness. To develop an alliance of local civil society groups/ orgs to communicate, share resources and inform higher level policy. Adapt health/wellbeing activities for social distancing measures.
Power to Change - C-19 Response - The Boiler House Community Space
£30,000	28/05/2020	Grant to C-19 Response - The Boiler House Community Space
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£5,000	13/04/2020	A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Sport England - MUGA and Outdoor Facility Improvements
£50,000	11/03/2020 29	Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled MUGA and Outdoor Facility Improvements. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
London Marathon Charitable Trust - The Boiler House Relocate and Improvement of Sports and Fitness Facilities.
£150,000	02/01/2020	Towards the relocation and installation of a new Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) on the George Downing Estate in Stoke Newington, and refurbishment of an existing community hall, adapting it to a multi ....more Towards the relocation and installation of a new Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) on the George Downing Estate in Stoke Newington, and refurbishment of an existing community hall, adapting it to a multi functional sports and fitness facility, this community hub will enable adult participation in exericse and physical activities and encourage and promote outdoor play for children and young people.
Hackney Council - Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
£3,571	10/12/2019 12	Up-skill staff and volunteers to promote and support improved community cohesion for Hackney residents by providing residents and local organisations with free community mediation, community support ....more Up-skill staff and volunteers to promote and support improved community cohesion for Hackney residents by providing residents and local organisations with free community mediation, community support drop-in surgeries, and conflict resolution services.
Power to Change - The Boiler House Community Space
£308,000	23/05/2019 36	Grant to The Boiler House Community Space
Tudor Trust - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£60,000	05/10/2016 24	over two years as continuation funding towards salary costs at a community development charity in North East London
Tudor Trust - Grant to Boiler House Community Space
£123,000	16/08/2013 36	over three years towards core salaries at this charity which develops community activities and community spaces in Hackney
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Research and Journalism Project
£10,000	11/07/2013 12	This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use the funding to provide community engagement training for volunteers and journalist and film making workshops for the wider community. ....more This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use the funding to provide community engagement training for volunteers and journalist and film making workshops for the wider community. This will develop skills and help the community to come together.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-65

ABIGAIL GILBERT Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Public Health Advisor

ELEANOR FAITH WRIGHT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Property

LUCY ANNE CLARE WOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: CAN'T SIT STILL,

MICHELLE BAKER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/09/2012, number: 1148931
Registered at Companies House on 02/12/2010, number: 07458912

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

10 returns made; AR21: 85 days late, AR14: 90 days late, AR13: 18 days late,

Main office

THE BOILER HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE
GEORGE DOWNING ESTATE
CAZENOVE ROAD
LONDON
N16 6BE

Objectives

4.1 TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF STOKE NEWINGTON, STAMFORD HILL, HACKNEY AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;4.2 TO ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS;4.3 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.THE CHARITY SHALL BE NON-PARTY IN POLITICS AND NON-SECTARIAN IN RELIGION.THE AREA OF BENEFIT (“AREA OF BENEFIT”) SHALL BE STOKE NEWINGTON, STAMFORDHILL, HACKNEY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY THE COMMUNITY USERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE AREA OF BENEFIT (“AREA OF BENEFIT”) SHALL BE STOKE NEWINGTON, STAMFORDHILL, HACKNEY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY THE COMMUNITY USERS.

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