Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 7
Support Score: 9
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

THE JUNCTION 42 FOUNDATION 

Junction 42 exists to see the lives of offenders and their communities visibly transformed through:Employability and entrepreneurial trainingCreative education and engagementThrough the gate mentoring and faith support
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
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 11 years

www.junction42.org

info@junction42.org

01912612684

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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
31/03/23£686£874£-188£0£418£3374.63150
31/03/22£963£913£50£1£606£5837.73344
31/03/21£883£732£151£3£556£491823275
31/03/20£701£511£190£0£405£3097.32032
31/03/19?£409£404£5n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/07/18£548£521£27£2£209£1172.7210
31/07/17£381£362£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/16£279£287£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/15£297£212£85£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/14£285£241£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/13£199£156£43£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 4.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 8.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 31 employees
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England,

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£311,328
Henry Smith Charity£60,000
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund£27,666
Rank Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Ex-Offender Employability Support and Job Finder
£288,188 15/02/2023
This funding will support The Junction 42 Foundation to deliver end to end pre-employability job finder service for ex-offenders across the whole of the North East. It will fund 3 members of staff to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Junction 42 Prison Resettlement
£10,000 30/08/2022
The organisation will provide a range of support to prison leavers to reduce the likelihood of re-offending and enable them to move forwards in a more stable and positive way. The project will ....more
Rank Foundation - GOLDEN AWARDS JUNCTION 42 2022
£20,000 23/03/2022
The Golden Award was given to Junction 42 to help support people impacted by the criminal justice system.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Shankill Parish Lurgan
£60,000 08/02/2022
36
towards three years' salary of a Community Evangelist to build relationships with people in the local community in Lurgan, Northern Ireland to support them in their journey of exploring the Christian ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - delivering support services for ex-offenders in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
£500 11/03/2021
delivering support services for ex-offenders in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - The Junction 42 Foundation - 5
£27,666 15/10/2020
6
To increase organisational capacity and resilience through the implementation of a series of consultancy recommendations consisting of new processes and the procurement, implementation and roll-out ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Junction 42: 6-month Coronavirus prisoner resettlement plan. Teesside
£13,140 04/06/2020
6
This funding will help those being released from prisons across the North East into the Teesside area by providing a life line of support linkage into other support services and somebody to turn to ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - The Junction 42 Foundation Development Project
£25,000 08/03/2019
The Junction 42 Foundation Development Project
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Newcastle Job Club for ex-offenders:reducing poverty through employment
£15,000 26/07/2017
Newcastle Job Club for ex-offenders:reducing poverty through employment
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunderland Job Club for Ex-offenders
£6,751 26/07/2017
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This is a project by an organisation in Newcastle serving people in Sunderland. The project will deliver a job club for ex-offenders to help them develop skills and remove barriers to employment. The ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-63
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/11/2012, number: 1149813
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/07/2012, number: 08139367
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

Brunswick Church
Brunswick Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7BJ

Objectives

1.TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF CURRENT AND PREVIOUS CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS OR THOSE CONSIDERED AT RISK OF OFFENDING AGAINST THE LAW IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE CREATION OF EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO ASSIST WITH THEIR REHABILITATION AND TO DO THIS WITHIN A CHRISTIAN ETHOS2.THE PREVENTION OR ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS OR SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED BY REASON OF CURRENT AND PREVIOUS CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS OR THOSE CONSIDERED AT RISK OF OFFENDING AGAINST THE LAW AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, HOMELESSNESS AND SICKNESS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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