Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 6
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

REFOCUS PROJECT LTD 

Refocus provides crime prevention workshops, prison visits, tailor made programmes & mentoring to vulnerable young people aged between 8 - 19 , who are excluded, on the verge of exclusion, not in education NEET, in gangs & involved in criminal activity in London and Kent, through ex offenders and ex users who have turned their lives around and have developed their full potential as youth workers.
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 11 years

www.refocusproject.org.uk

info@refocusproject.co.uk

02034051787

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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*£98£127£-29n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/22£97£94£3n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/21£177£114£62n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£85£80£6n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/19£100£95£4n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/18*£75£98£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£100£77£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£56£55£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£40£40£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£60£57£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kent, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 3 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£39,880
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
AB Charitable Trust£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£10,000
DCMS£9,990
The Fore£5,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Music and Mentoring
£9,920 15/09/2023
The funding will be used to provide music studio sessions and mentoring for young people. The project aims to support community members who are at risk of being involved in gang culture as well as ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - MH Empower
£10,000 04/08/2023
The funding will be used to deliver a range of intervention commencing in the summer of 2023 for young people aged 11 – 18 years who are deemed to be at risk within the region of Dartford and ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Refocus Project
£10,000 01/07/2021
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Refocus Projects delivers mentoring, training and workshops aimed at young people engaged in, or at risk of engaging in, criminal activity with the aim of diverting ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Refocus Youth Engagement
£9,970 11/06/2021
The funding will be used to deliver dance workshops specifically targeting BAME young girls in North Kent. The project aims to encourage young women to feel free of outside influences and pressures ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,990 08/10/2020
"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
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Refocus Project Ltd
£20,000 07/08/2020
24
towards two years' running costs of the 'Refocus VIP', an intervention programme working with young people to reduce crime and gangs in Kent.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Refocus Project Ltd
£5,000 08/06/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Refocus Project Ltd, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£10,000 04/02/2020
towards 'Reaching Out' - an early intervention project targeting young people at risk of becoming involved in crime
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out
£9,990 09/10/2019
12
Reaching Out
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Refocus Project Ltd
£3,000 20/09/2019
12
Small Grant unrestricted core costs
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£9,950 20/12/2018
Co-designing improvements to a community hub space to make it a space for young people in the area.
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Community Spaces
£9,950 20/12/2018
Co-designing improvements to a community hub space to make it a space for young people in the area.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Refocus Project Ltd
£9,000 12/12/2018
12
towards one year's running costs of the 'Refocus VIP' project, an intervention programme working with young people to reduce crime and gang involvement in Kent
National Lottery Community Fund - Inside out
£9,900 09/08/2017
12
This project will deliver mental health and wellbeing mentoring sessions to girls form traveller, European and African communities to increase their confidence and self-esteem.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Refocus Project Ltd
£19,600 09/06/2016
24
towards two years' running costs of 'U Chooz', a project in Kent that engages ex-offenders and ex-service users to mentor and coach young people
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-49
  • NATASHA OTI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Dance Coach And Accountancy
  • KAREN WALKER (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Social Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/01/2013, number: 1150441
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/05/2012, number: 08091241
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 handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR23: 14 days late, AR18: 28 days late, AR17: 2 days late,
Main office

Bizniz point
Crowne House
Home Gardens
Dartford

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE AT RISK FROM DRUGS OR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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