Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Very static board: -5
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

SUNBEAMS LONDON LTD 

Sunbeams addresses a need for multi-disciplinary, early intervention for young women struggling with emotional wellbeing and/or social isolation. Services include accredited 1:1 and group mentoring service, work with parents and within schools.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be very static

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£259£254£5n/an/an/an/an/a220
30/06/22£196£185£11n/an/an/an/an/a170
30/06/21*£230£183£47n/an/an/an/an/a125
30/06/20£101£89£12n/an/an/an/an/a117
30/06/19£77£76£1n/an/an/an/an/a2
30/06/18£83£78£5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£59£51£8£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£52£51£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£39£38£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

admin@sunbeamslondon.org.uk

02035198878

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Technical, vocational and continuing education
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Hackney, Haringey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 220 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
Henry Smith Charity£155,800
BBC Children in Need£127,626
Hackney Council£39,524
Rosa UK£26,511
The Berkeley Foundation£22,939
The Pilgrim Trust£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,760
The London Community Foundation£19,328
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Sunbeams
£155,800 14/06/2023
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Mentoring Service' supporting girls and young women aged 11-16 with mental health issues from the Orthodox Jewish community in the London Borough of Hackney.
The Berkeley Foundation - Resilience Fund
£22,939 20/03/2023
Resilience Fund - Year 2 Wave 2 - 2-year grant
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Stepup
£2,900 30/01/2023
Grant to Sunbeams London
National Lottery Community Fund - Space to Thrive
£9,980 20/01/2023
The funding will be used to provide farm based user led group mentoring sessions to vulnerable Orthodox Jewish girls aged between 8-16. The project aims to provide a culturally appropriate safe space ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sunbeams London
£86,174 03/02/2022
Mentoring support service for girls from the Orthodox Jewish Community. By attending sessions girls will improve their emotional wellbeing, be less isolated and improve their communication skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-connect
£9,780 06/08/2021
The funding will be used to provide wellbeing activities and mentoring sessions for women and girls from the Orthodox Jewish community. The project aims to reduce the isolating effects of the ....more
Rosa UK - WTF-SUNBEAM-2021
£18,557 28/06/2021
£18,557 has been awarded to Sunbeams to run weekly 1-2-1 mentoring with trained mentors (aged 18-25) for an additional 50 Orthodox Jewish girls under the age of 18 in Hackney.
Rosa UK - C19 R4-SUNBEAM-2021
£7,954 30/03/2021
A grant of £7,954 is recommended towards core costs of work with both Jewish young women and their parents to help improve their mental health.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Sunbeams London Ltd
£20,000 03/03/2021
24
A mentoring programme for vulnerable girls from the Orthodox Jewish community
People's Health Trust - Covid-Connect
£15,940 03/02/2021
12
This one-year project provides emotional wellbeing support for vulnerable Orthodox Jewish girls, age 9-16 living in Stamford Hill, Hackney. Using fun and engaging art activities, a five-part ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sunbeams London
£8,482 30/11/2020
This project will provide 1-1 mentoring sessions to high risk and vulnerable girls from the Orthodox Jewish community, to help improve their mental health, raise confidence and enable them to form ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sunbeams London
£10,000 17/11/2020
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged women with mental illness in Hackney
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Sunbeams London Ltd
£10,000 17/09/2020
The funding is for a part of the rent of a larger, Covid-secure space, for mental health focussed mentoring sessions for vulnerable girls and staff & volunteer development costs, associated with ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,930 22/07/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sunbeams London
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund the cost of activity packs to be given to families during COVID-19 to help the children increase their emotional well-being and enable them to help express their ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Sunbeams London Ltd
£9,328 16/06/2020
Extending our mental health focussed mentoring support and parent engagement services to 130 (105 current users+25 new intake) emotionally vulnerable girls age 7-16 in Hackney?s Charedi community. ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sunbeams London
£29,970 20/03/2020
36
This project will provide mentoring sessions for young women and girls from low income families from the Orthodox Jewish community. The sessions will help them to improve their team working skills ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to Sunbeams London Ltd
£39,524 28/10/2019
24
Early intervention volunteer mentoring with cultural insight for 50+ OJ girls with mental health/trauma disadvantages in transition (Yrs 6/7), coordinated with parents, teachers, & stakeholders ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Salaries for the social integration programme
£500 03/04/2019
Towards salaries for the social integration programme for isolated and vulnerable young girls.
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£7,398 13/01/2019
Build skills and confidence Group sessions are activity based and require users to lend of their skills to others to complete a project (e.g. choreographing a song/dance where each YP plays a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Getting Better Together
£10,000 05/10/2018
12
The project deliver therapy sessions that are designed to support young people who are living with the effects of distress or mental ill health. The aim is to improve their confidence and self-esteem.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sunbeams London
£78,173 27/06/2018
36
Mentoring programme for 150 young women in the Orthodox Jewish Community. Through mentoring the girls will be better able to manage their feelings & emotions, increase their confidence & ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 42-64
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/10/2014, number: 1158753
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/06/2013, number: 08580129
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR21: 9 days late,
Main office

2nd Floor
97 Stamford Hill
London
N16 5DN

Objectives

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH:(A) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES, IN PARTICULAR MENTORING SUPPORT AND MENTORING TRAINING TO THOSE WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND LOW SELF-CONFIDENCE, WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.(B) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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