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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE RUNNING CHARITY

TRC provides running & fitness-based initiatives to homeless and disadvantaged young people aged 16-24, using the great value of sport as a catalyst for proactive and productive social change. By providing them with the means to participate in healthy recreation and with access to support services to relieve their needs and assist them to integrate into society.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/12/23£351£422£-71n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£375£427£-53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21*£487£353£134n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£280£275£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£311£237£73n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£253£295£-42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£351£250£101n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£180£108£72n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£71£49£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£32£2£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

www.therunningcharity.org

info@therunningcharity.org

07900245076

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, Leeds City, Manchester City, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
Dulverton Trust£59,487
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
DCMS£49,463
Postcode Society Trust£25,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Leeds Community Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Postcode Society Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£25,000 03/04/2023
Funding facilitated mental health interventions and development planning for young people whose lives had been affected by homelessness.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to The Running Charity
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Dulverton Trust - Work in Manchester and Leeds
£35,000 19/10/2022
Work in Manchester and Leeds
Leeds Community Foundation - TRC Leeds: Wellbeing in action
£10,000 01/12/2021
The Running Charity Leeds programme consists of both person centred youth work and meaningful integration of wellbeing activities to support young people experiencing homelessness and complex needs to lead healthier, happier lives
Dulverton Trust - Making strides: funding the Northern programmes
£24,487 09/06/2021
Making strides: funding the Northern programmes
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to The Running Charity
£50,000 03/12/2020
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Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of The Running Charity, awarded under the Foundation's Homeless and Vulnerably Housed funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge from the pandemic.
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£49,463 03/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and grant making organisations to match funds raised on ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000 14/08/2020
Wellbeing and social support for homeless and socially vulnerable young people across the UK
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 26/11/2018
National programme addressing youth homelessness, wellbeing and isolation
Spirit of 2012 - Spat (NLF Comms Project)
£4,000 01/07/2014
Linked to National Lottery Fund Anniversary Run in August 2014 at the Olympic Park. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

  • CATHERINE SEYMOUR Appointed: 2021
  • DAVID LOUDON MCMURTRIE (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • EFE ODEKA Appointed: 2024
  • RACHAEL WILLIAMS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Executive Director
  • WINCENT LAU Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/06/2014, number: 1157501
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
  • 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; AR21: 33 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from HOME STRAIGHT on 15/01/2021
Main office

5 St Bride Street
Floor 4
City of London
London
EC4A 4AS

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY PROVIDING THEM WITH THE MEANS TO PARTICIPATE IN HEALTHY RECREATION AND ACCESS SUPPORT SERVICES TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.AT THE RUNNING CHARITY, SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF HOMELESSNESS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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