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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

THE KINETIC SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

WE ARE AN EDUCATIONAL CHARITY THAT HELP THE PUBLIC LEARN ABOUT SCIENCE AND OTHER STEM SUBJECTS. WE PROVIDE AN OUTREACH FACILITY INCLUDING FORENSIC SCIENCE, ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND PROBLEM SOLVING AIMED AT CHILDREN. WE NOW HAVE A STEM AND ASTRONOMY CENTRE CALLED IT'S ROCKET SCIENCE.THIS IS A PLACE FOR SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES TO LEARN ABOUT SCIENCE AND USE HANDS-ON EXHIBITS.
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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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
30/06/22?*£189£208£-19n/an/an/an/an/a11
30/04/21£143£52£92n/an/an/an/an/a4
30/04/20£33£43£-10n/an/an/an/an/a9
30/04/19?£72£76£-4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£46£49£-2£0£0£0n/a08
31/03/17*£18£16£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£28£28£1£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

www.kineticscience.co.uk

kineticscience@gmail.com

01284277122

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Scientific research and testing services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 11 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
The Foyle Foundation£33,500
Suffolk Community Foundation£9,898
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£25,000 11/07/2022
towards the exhibits in exhibition room two of the science centre serving the East region
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 04/02/2022
Interactive Science Centre
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£8,500 24/11/2020
to cover teacher resource science kits (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Suffolk Community Foundation - Educational outreach to deprived families
£4,953 29/05/2020
2
To support core running costs for educational outreach to children in low-income families.Covid19
Suffolk Community Foundation - Educational Outreach to deprived families
£4,945 23/04/2020
2
To offer educational outreach to deprived children in and around the Stowmarket area. Covid19

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/02/2015, number: 1160476
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR22: 5 days late, AR17: 2 days late,
Main office

Unit 14
Hill View Business Park
Old Ipswich Road
Claydon
IPSWICH
IP6 0AJ

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE SUBJECTS OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING A SCIENCE MUSEUM, SCIENCE EQUIPMENT AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN AGED 3 - 18 YEARS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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