Finance Score: 7

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
Future income +5
No PartB

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 13

MY YARD

Providing practical and emotional support for vulnerable members of society via My Yard who become isolated due to crisis. We collect and distribute food, provide a range of activities for youth, help survivors of Domestic Abuse, Families and Caregivers and Children who've had life changing injury due to accident or illness, We focus on families in temporary housing.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

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
30/09/22		£146	£143	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
30/09/21		£130	£122	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
30/09/20		£60	£51	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
30/09/19		£27	£23	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
30/09/18		£10	£11	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	4
30/09/17	*	£6	£7	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/16		£5	£6	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/15		£7	£7	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 10 years

angelhands.org.uk

Hey@myyard.org.uk

07939917800

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Barnet, Enfield, Harrow, Hertfordshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
20 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

John Lyon's Charity	£80,200
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
DCMS	£10,000
Wates Family Enterprise Trust	£2,760
CAF	£2,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Bushey Pantry
£10,000	08/09/2023	The funding will be used to develop the community allotment and deliver social events for the community. The project aims to bring people together and build new relationships.
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to My Yard
£2,200	17/12/2022	Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to My Yard
£4,000	29/11/2022	My Yard Christmas Activities
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - My Yard Boxing-Group LT-Sept 2021
£2,760	23/09/2021	The grant will be used to start 2 groups of mentoring young people with weekly boxing, mentoring sessions, trips out and career advice and internships.
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to My Yard
£4,000	21/06/2021	Grange Summer Activities
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to My Yard
£66,000	18/11/2020 36	My Yard Grange Farm Project Manager
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	16/09/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
CAF - Grant to The Angel Hands Foundation
£2,000	22/04/2020	Grant to The Angel Hands Foundation to support the organisation through COVID19
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to My Yard
£4,000	02/12/2019 12	My Yard Holiday activities at Grange Farm
National Lottery Community Fund - My Yard
£10,000	25/01/2019 12	The project aims to distribute surplus food.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

SRI SUDEVI Appointed: 2014

CATHERINE MARIE EDGAR Appointed: 2020

LOUISE JANE CARMICHAEL Appointed: 2018

PAULA ANN MERRONY Appointed: 2021

SARAH HABERGHAM Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/10/2014, number: 1158800

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Volunteer management

Filing Record

8 returns made; AR17: 13 days late,

Main office

60 Sparrows Herne
Bushey
Herts
WD23 1FY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO are: 1.The relief of sickness and the preservation of health both physical and mental of vulnerable children, young people (14-25) adults and families and the elderly, by provision of medical aids and equipment, personal and social activities and events to improve physical and mental health, and to prevent further social isolation and ill health through promoting community based initiatives and networking.2. For the purpose of this clause, ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: Unemployment, financial hardship, youth or old age, ill health (physical or mental), substance abuse or dependancy including alcohol or drugs, discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment, poor educational or skills attainment, relationship or family breakdown, poor housing ( ie housing that does not meet basic habitable standards), crime (either as a a victim of crime or an an offender rehabilitating into society)We provide tailor made support packages of food, health and occupational aids and social activities for all those above, particularly those who slip through the net/under the radar of voluntary and/or statutory service provision.

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