Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 15

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +15

Overall GiG Score: 20

SMALL GREEN SHOOTS

Small Green Shoots transforms the lives of young people aged 16-24 around England and living in areas of social deprivation. Young people access valuable life-experiences, skills and qualifications via our innovative arts-based projects. We facilitate their transformation from NEET (not in education, employment or training) into learning and employment opportunities in the creative industries.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Established: 9 years
(14 years as a company)

www.smallgreenshoots.co.uk

info@smallgreenshoots.co.uk

02070180683

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	*	£466	£492	£-27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/22		£681	£804	£-123	£4	£26	£3	0	23	0
31/03/21	*	£596	£488	£108	£23	£148	£59	1.4	16	0
31/03/20		£297	£315	£-18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/19		£305	£278	£27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18		£212	£184	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£165	£165	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£204	£206	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Recreation
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

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

Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£150,000
DCMS	£122,208
City Bridge Trust	£112,458
Comic Relief	£88,507
National Lottery Community Fund	£66,530
BBC Children in Need	£51,630
Camden Giving	£37,955
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£37,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Youth Music - Small Green Shoots Young Influencers
£29,832	19/06/2023	Small Green Shoots Young Influencers
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Small Green Shoots: Strong Foundations
£150,000	09/05/2023	Small Green Shoots (SGS) is a Black and female-led arts charity supporting young people, primarily from across London, to pursue careers in the creative industries. This grant will provide core ....more Small Green Shoots (SGS) is a Black and female-led arts charity supporting young people, primarily from across London, to pursue careers in the creative industries. This grant will provide core support to enable SGS to deliver their growth and impact plans. It aims to increase capacity and the number of young people they can support into sustainable careers, strengthen their asset-based approach, and increase their influence with creative industry employers to create a more equitable environment for young people.
The Berkeley Foundation - Cost of Living Grant
£3,000	30/03/2023	One-off, unrestricted grant
The Berkeley Foundation - One-off grant
£250	20/03/2023	Unrestricted grant - Resilience Fund Panel
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000	02/09/2022	Small Green Shoots: Launching Creative Industry Careers for Disadvantage Young Londoners
Camden Giving - SMALL GREEN SHOOTS
£10,000	12/07/2022	We have a Young Shoot engaged directly on the team to assist the coordinators with recruitment and organising sessions. This is a 3 day a week post
Camden Giving - SMALL GREEN SHOOTS
£1,000	12/07/2022	We have a Young Shoot engaged directly on the team to assist the coordinators with recruitment and organising sessions. This is a 3 day a week post
National Lottery Community Fund - Short Sharp Shot
£9,460	01/07/2022	The funding will be used to run activities and workshops for young people. The project aims to give access to training and work for young people.
The Berkeley Foundation - Resilience Fund
£30,000	05/01/2022	Resilience Fund - Year 1 Wave 1
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Small Green Shoots
£37,000	16/06/2021	Northside Pirates: Analogue to Digital
Camden Giving - Small Green Shoots
£10,000	05/05/2021	Gospel Oak FC
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Small Green Shoots
£50,000	08/04/2021	towards the budget items set out in your application and additional overheads as agreed with your assessor
National Lottery Community Fund - Small Green Shoots
£47,075	29/03/2021 12	The project is using funding to support hard-to-reach young people aged 16-24 in Camden and Islington access creative industries. Funding enables them to increase capacity upskill young people ....more The project is using funding to support hard-to-reach young people aged 16-24 in Camden and Islington access creative industries. Funding enables them to increase capacity upskill young people provide work placements and creative industry networking. They will continue to support young people to learn to adapt to remote working and the funding ensures the group have the administrative and tracking systems in place to do this well.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Small Green Shoots
£43,818	28/09/2020	towards the cost of delivering three eight-week programs to support/develop 50 NEET people achieve a certified software accreditation (CANVA, Illustrator/Adobe) to improve their employment prospect ....more towards the cost of delivering three eight-week programs to support/develop 50 NEET people achieve a certified software accreditation (CANVA, Illustrator/Adobe) to improve their employment prospect (includes CV and interview training), as outlined in your application.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Small Green Shoots
£4,080	22/09/2020	The Future is Creative.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SMALL GREEN SHOOTS
£51,630	09/09/2020 18	COVID19 - This grant will fund a programme to support career prospects for young people who are experiencing multiple barriers exacerbated by Covid-19. The activities will result in improved mental ....more COVID19 - This grant will fund a programme to support career prospects for young people who are experiencing multiple barriers exacerbated by Covid-19. The activities will result in improved mental health and improved skills and self-belief.
Camden Giving - SMALL GREEN SHOOTS
£8,175	26/06/2020 7	This funding will go towards the costs of a much-needed PT Youth Manager role + training to support the Young Shoots development out of Lock Down and reintegration back into ....more This funding will go towards the costs of a much-needed PT Youth Manager role + training to support the Young Shoots development out of Lock Down and reintegration back into training/secondments/community activities.
Camden Giving - SMALL GREEN SHOOTS
£8,780	24/06/2020	This project will find digital resources, enabling more young people to access accreditation & other services, training from YoungMinds & others to properly support diverse vulnerable young ....more This project will find digital resources, enabling more young people to access accreditation & other services, training from YoungMinds & others to properly support diverse vulnerable young people, and Doorstep resource visits for 15 isolated young people.
Comic Relief - Small Green Shoots Recovery Funding
£40,000	23/06/2020 6	COVID19 Recovery funding
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Small Green Shoots
£18,640	28/05/2020	£18,640 towards costs as outlined in your application, excluding project management and director costs.
DCMS - Small Green Shoots
£122,208	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
National Lottery Community Fund - Small Shoots Pilot
£9,995	02/12/2019 12	The funding will be used to provide support in employment, training, coaching and work placements for young people. The project aims to increase self-confidence and raise aspirations.
Comic Relief - Fundamentals Expansion
£48,507	03/07/2019 18	Small Green Shoots will develop the FundaMentals projects to initially support an additional 140 young people in London who are from deprived communities, and mostly not in education, employment and ....more Small Green Shoots will develop the FundaMentals projects to initially support an additional 140 young people in London who are from deprived communities, and mostly not in education, employment and training. Through arts-based projects the young people will explore mental health, developing their understanding and a range of skills whilst being supported by a freelance artist. Through this development the delivery model will also be piloted in 2 sites outside of London, supporting 60 young people, and an online toolkit will be developed and marketed by the young people, which can then be used freely by other youth-led organisations. Funding will support staffing and delivery costs.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Small Green Shoots
£46,900	10/01/2018	Bagley's, The Cross and The Key: Cultural remembrance and regeneration
National Lottery Community Fund - Down and Shout
£9,975	08/11/2017 12	This project will work with young people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds that are living with mental health issues. They will run workshops teaching coping strategies and signposting ....more This project will work with young people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds that are living with mental health issues. They will run workshops teaching coping strategies and signposting people to relevant support organisations
Comic Relief - That thing in my head (TTIMH)
£138,343	27/09/2017 36	Small Green Shoots is a London based organisation working in areas of high deprivation with young people who are not in employment, education or further training. Using creative arts to encourage ....more Small Green Shoots is a London based organisation working in areas of high deprivation with young people who are not in employment, education or further training. Using creative arts to encourage engagement, the This Thing In My Head project will create opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to take part in youth social action focused primarily on mental health. It will also signpost them to future opportunities, helping them understand that youth social action can be for them. This three year project will culminate in a final year festival, developed, planned, run and marketed by those young people.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to SMALL GREEN SHOOTS
£28,885	09/03/2017 36	This grant will fund creative writing workshops for young women experiencing local deprivation and at risk of being NEET in Hackney. The project aims to empower the young women and develop their life ....more This grant will fund creative writing workshops for young women experiencing local deprivation and at risk of being NEET in Hackney. The project aims to empower the young women and develop their life skills and self-confidence.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Small Green Shoots
£24,100	08/10/2014	The Many Guises of the Rainbow Theatre

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 26-76

DIANE MORGAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Creative Director

ELLIS RICH Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Publisher

EUNICE OBIANAGHA (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Event Producer

GARY MANDEL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Music Industry Professional

JUSTIN ADAM SIDNICK Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Solicitor

LOUISE THOMAS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

LISA NAOMI LOADSMAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Certified Chartered Accountant

RENEE MONTANA LENA HAYLES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Talent Acquisition Assistant

SAM KIDBY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Managing Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/03/2015, number: 1160814
Registered at Companies House on 25/07/2009, number: 06972813

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
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

8 returns made; AR23: 75 days late, AR21: 3 days late,

Main office

54 CHALTON STREET
LONDON
NW1 1HS

Objectives

1. TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT OR TRAINING BY USING ARTS AND CREATIVITY AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;(D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND 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 AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).”

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