Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 12
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE GOOD GYM 

GoodGym is a community of runners who combine exercise and volunteering. We run to help isolated older people and to do physical tasks for community projects.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 9 years
(14 years as a company)

http://www.goodgym.org

getinvolved@goodgym.org

02036420997

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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
31/08/22£888£1,117£-229£80£975£96410.41520,265
31/08/21£1,327£989£339£0£1,206£6387.71320,056
31/08/20£1,712£922£790£38£867£1962.6145,174
31/08/19£923£920£3£0£78£781136,190
31/08/18£832£870£-38£0£75£751125,000
31/08/17£864£866£-2£0£114£1141.6120
31/08/16£634£677£-43£0£116£1162.170

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 10.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 11.5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 15 employees
  • 20,265 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
National Lottery Community Fund£693,450
The Rayne Foundation£90,000
Masonic Trust£20,000
The Grocers' Charity£20,000
London Marathon Charitable Trust£16,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£20,000 16/03/2023
Development of GoodGym's volunteer led practical and social support for isolated older people
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to The Good Gym Ltd
£90,000 21/09/2020
36
Towards the core costs of GoodGym's older people operations team.
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Expanding GoodGym's workplace-based initiatives across London
£16,500 10/06/2020
A top up grant towards expanding Good Gym's workplace-based initiatives across London, which encourage employees to get away from their desks and combine running or walking with volunteering in the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - GoodGym - Covid-19 response
£240,000 15/05/2020
5
GoodGym is a charity and company limited by guarantee that helps people to combine regular exercise with volunteering in the community. Typically this involves connecting runners with older people to ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 The Good Gym
£10,000 07/05/2020
Working towards ending loneliness in old age
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 The Good Gym Ltd
£10,000 11/12/2019
Working towards ending loneliness in old age
National Lottery Community Fund - GoodGym - using digital to scale impact
£453,450 25/07/2019
36
GoodGym - using digital to scale impact
Leeds Community Foundation - GoodGym Leeds
£15,000 18/03/2019
35
Helping new people get into physical activity and volunteering to support isolated older people and community groups across the city.
National Lottery Community Fund - Goodgym Volunteering Platform
£98,895 28/02/2019
36
The project will connect communities in 46 local authority areas using physical activity (running groups) to bring communities together and reduce isolation and loneliness. Activities include weekly ....more
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Expanding GoodGym's workplace-based initiatives across London
£110,000 26/09/2018
A programme to significantly expand Good Gym's workplace-based initiatives across London, which encourage employees to get away from their desks and combine running or walking with volunteering in ....more
Sport England - Core Market Open Fund 1
£499,540 01/03/2018
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Funding under Sport England's Core Market Open Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Core Market Open Fund 1. This project is a Sport and Physical Activity project, with a focus on ....more
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - GoodGym Newcastle
£2,500 24/11/2017
GoodGym Newcastle
Community Foundation for Surrey - GoodGym Woking
£12,500 31/10/2016
12
To enable the establishment of Woking GoodGym; a project tackling isolation within the elderly population, encouraging community cohesion and promoting exercise.
Nesta - AC00575
£933,999 08/08/2016
58
Accelerating Ideas programme grant to The Good Gym Grant Ref AC00575
Greater London Authority - Grant to GoodGym
£5,000 01/09/2015
Increasing gtoup volunteering and supporting skills based volunteering
Spirit of 2012 - GoodGym (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 (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 36-70
  • RUTH FORBES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Nhs Improvement/ Ho System Support And Improvement
  • TAMARA GREENE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Advertising Global Brand Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/03/2015, number: 1160988
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/08/2009, number: 06995775
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

33 HOLBORN
LONDON
EC1N 2HT

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP BY OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES TO COMBINE PHYSICAL EXERCISE WITH VOLUNTEERING, IN PARTICULAR ASSISTING LOCAL COMMUNITY PROJECTS WITH MANUAL LABOUR AND PROVIDING AD HOC AND ON-GOING SUPPORT TO ISOLATED, LONELY AND/OR VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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