Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

INCREDIBLE KIDS

Incredible Kids is a Christian charity providing play and support to any family with a child or young person with a disability or additional need to strengthen and support family life, reduce inequality and social isolation. Activities include daytime family play sessions for young people with additional needs and their siblings in a supported environment with advice and support for parent-carer.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£110£117£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£394£85£308n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£68£63£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£32£50£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£15£20£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£44£24£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£31£33£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£36£43£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£60£50£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£33£13£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.incrediblekids.org.uk/

incrediblekidsuk@gmail.com

07766252320

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Quartet Community Foundation£51,329
Garfield Weston Foundation£36,500
DCMS£13,514
True Colours Trust£5,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
BBC Children in Need£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Incredible Kids
£1,064 21/10/2023
We'd like to bring in circus performers, theatre actors, Lego experts, and other fun people to bring a bit of extra sparkle, joy and smiles to the disabled children who visit us.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 25/08/2023
24
Incredible Play and Support
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£750 28/06/2023
Towards seed planting sessions at the Vench teaching children with additional needs and disabilities about growing their own wild flowers and plants.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£10,000 11/05/2023
Towards financial admin and social media and communications support to enable and underpin significant growth within Incredible Kids.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£2,400 02/05/2023
Funded school holiday sessions for children with disabilities. The sessions will offer supported play and family meals for up to 30 young people plus their parent/carer
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£5,000 20/12/2022
To provide winter warmer wellbeing packs and indoor activities at the Vench in Lockleaze for families with disabled children.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£3,000 31/08/2022
Towards playworker support for young people with learning difficulties at the group's sessions.
True Colours Trust - Towards the organisation’s core costs
£5,000 15/08/2022
Towards the organisation’s core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 06/05/2022
Incredible Play Sessions
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£4,500 06/05/2022
Towards holiday activities for children aged 8-12 in Bristol
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 21/04/2022
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£10,000 18/03/2022
11
Increased Financial, Social Media and Communications paid support to enable and underpin significant growth within Incredible Kids.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£2,427 05/01/2022
For the purchase and installation of a secure equipment storage unit for use at the Lockleaze Adventure Playground.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£600 14/09/2021
As approved by the High Sheriff towards holiday activities for young people
Quartet Community Foundation - Incredible Play
£4,400 29/06/2021
12
Delivering outdoor play and support sessions for disabled young people and those with additional social needs.
Quartet Community Foundation - Incredible Outdoors
£3,252 22/04/2021
1
For outdoor activity sessions for disabled children and families.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 24/07/2020
Incredible Sessions
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Incredible Kids
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund resource packs and additional Playworker hours to support disabled children and young people, isolated at home due to Covid-19. Young people will have more fun and feel less isolated.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 21/05/2020
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Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Incredible Kids
£5,000 17/04/2020
Bespoke at home play and support packages for disabled children and families in isolation.
DCMS - Youth Covid-19 Support Fund Grant
£10,514 01/04/2020
To mitigate the impact of lost income in the Youth Sector during the winter period due to the coronavirus pandemic, and ensure services providing vital support can remain viable.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 23/10/2017
Incredible Kids
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • DOMINIC FLETCHER Appointed: 2021
  • JENNIFER MAY PREWETT CPFA (Chair) Appointed: 2013
  • JAIME SAMANTHA BREITNAUER Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/03/2013, number: 1151185
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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; AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 1 days late, AR14: 2 days late,
Main office

Lockleaze Youth & Play Space
Romney Avenue
BRISTOL
BS7 9TD

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS; AND2. PROVIDING RELIEF AND RESPITE TO THE FAMILY AND CARERS OF THE CHILDREN;THESE OBJECTS SHALL BE FURTHERED IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING CARE FOR THE CHILDREN AND PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO SOCIALISE AND PLAY TOGETHER; ANDB) ALLOWING PARENTS AND CARERS TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK FROM THE PRESSURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE AND ENCOURAGING A MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR PARENTS AND CARERS.WE DEFINE THOSE WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS AS CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE A PHYSICAL, SENSORY, COMMUNICATION, BEHAVIOURAL OR LEARNING DIFFICULTY, OR HAVE A LONG TERM/LIFE LIMITING CONDITION

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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