Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

OFF THE RECORD (TWICKENHAM) 

Off The Record Twickenham (OTR) provides counselling, supported information and sexual health services to young people aged 11 to 24 who live, work, or study in the borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 11 years

www.otrtwickenham.com

info@otrtwickenham.com

02087441644

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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£277£286£-10n/an/an/an/an/a23
31/03/22£234£257£-22n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/21£288£200£88n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/20£197£205£-8n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/19£187£160£27n/an/an/an/an/a23
31/03/18£168£156£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£218£149£69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£179£128£51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£123£98£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£58£49£10£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
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Richmond Upon Thames,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 23 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
Masonic Trust£13,500
DCMS£9,723
Co-Operative Group£7,857
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,723 28/09/2020
"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
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£13,500 10/02/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Off The Record Twickenham
£7,857 15/11/2019
We want to provide counselling with an experienced counsellor for young people in crisis.
National Lottery Community Fund - Counselling for young people in crisis
£9,729 27/02/2019
12
The project will deliver drop in counselling sessions for young people. The aim is to improve wellbeing, encourage conversation and promote a better understanding of mental health.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Off The Record Twickenham
£61,820 09/07/2015
£61,820 (£20,000; £20,600; £21,220) towards its part-time coordinator post and running costs to provide a counselling service to improve young people’s mental health.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-67
  • CLAIRE HAYNES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Consultant And Coach
  • DEBORAH FEARN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Freelance Human Resources Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/05/2013, number: 1152097
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/03/2013, number: 08466382
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

2 CHURCH STREET
TWICKENHAM
TW1 3NJ

Objectives

(1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS OF YOUNG PERSONS (BEING PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 25) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, PARTICULARLY THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES.(2)THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SUFFERING CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH OR BY SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A COUNSELLING SERVICE FOR THE GIVING OF INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP COUNSELLING, AND PRACTICAL ADVICE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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