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Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

YOUNG HARROW FOUNDATION

To promote efficiency and effectiveness in the charitable activities of not-for-profit organisations, voluntary groups and charities working with young people and operating in the London Borough of Harrow. To educate for public benefit of those involved with voluntary sector and not-for-profit organisations working with young people and providing advice and information to agencies in the field
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£1,382£1,370£12£2£264£2011.890
31/03/23£1,426£1,365£61£1£252£1801.690
31/03/22£1,139£1,209£-70£1£191£1681.790
31/03/21£487£497£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£327£281£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18?£247£204£43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
14/03/17*£205£126£79n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 62%
Liabilities/Income: 31%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 76%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.4
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Balance Sheet History
Established: 9 years

youngharrowfoundation.org

admin@youngharrow.org

02084298592

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Harrow,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
John Lyon's Charity£190,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£80,000
City Bridge Trust£52,101
Hyde Charitable Trust£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Hyde Charitable Trust - Voices for Change
£15,000 07/02/2024
Voices for Change
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Young Harrow Foundation
£10,000 05/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to Young Harrow Foundation
£80,000 17/11/2022
Supporting Arts in Harrow Grant Programme
John Lyon's Charity - YPF Small Grants grant to Young Harrow Foundation
£100,000 16/06/2021
HSC YPF Small Grants Fund Harrow
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Follow-on Funding: Change Champions
£60,000 05/01/2021
Young Harrow Foundation (YHF) supports the local voluntary sector to build capacity, increase funding and develop effective partnership working for the benefit of children and young people. This grant will allow YHF to develop, expand, and embed its ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 30/10/2020
6
Young Harrow Foundation (YHF) supports the local voluntary sector to build capacity, increase funding and develop effective partnership working for the benefit of children and young people. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Young Harrow Foundation
£39,601 13/08/2020
towards the costs of the Help Harrow portal’s development and expansion and related additional capacity costs (£32,101), and towards 50% of the proposed spot purchasing fund (£7,500)
National Lottery Community Fund - Harrow Emergency Response
£9,800 22/05/2020
6
The funding will be used to develop and expand the Single Point Of Access service for the most vulnerable members of the community to support with mental health and well being.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Young Harrow Foundation
£12,500 09/04/2020
‘A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant’
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Young Harrow Foundation
£200,000 25/07/2019
60
£200,000 over five years (£50,000; £45,000; £40,000; £35,000; £30,000) as core funding to support the Young Harrow Foundation's work in support of voluntary sector organisations working with children and young people.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Piloting a new youth led partnership model in Harrow
£60,000 11/03/2019
24
Young Harrow Foundation is a youth sector membership and infrastructure body working exclusively in Harrow. YHF will pilot a youth-led partnership model focused on five thematic areas: mental health, youth violence, employment, inequalities and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering local Young People Services
£8,845 04/05/2018
12
This project will create an online platform that is designed to support and engage young people, encouraging them to become more socially active and to access local services.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

  • AARTHI RAVISHANKAR Appointed: 2024
  • CLARE HARRINGTON (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • GIAZAT SINMILEOLUWA TAIWO Appointed: 2022
  • JOANNA MOURANT Appointed: 2021
  • MATHURA PANCHADCHARASARMA Appointed: 2023
  • STEVEN ANDREW WILLIAMS Appointed: 2016
  • SAMY BENAFERI Appointed: 2021
  • SANJAY CHANDARANA Appointed: 2020
  • VIVEKANANDA RAJAH THAYALAN Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/09/2015, number: 1163589
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds 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
7 returns made; AR17: 10 days late,
Main office

27 High Street
HARROW
Middlesex
HA1 3HT

Objectives

TO PROMOTE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS, VOLUNTARY GROUPS AND CHARITIES WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND OPERATING IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW AND ELSEWHERE (THE AREA OF BENEFIT)INCLUDING BY:A)CO-ORDINATING BOTH EXISTING CHARITABLE AND NON-CHARITABLE AGENCIES THAT HAVE A COMMON GOAL OF PROVIDING CHARITABLE SERVICES OR RELIEF TO YOUNG PEOPLE; B)LIAISING WITH, AND ACTING AS A FORUM FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN, AGENCIES WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN THE RANGE OF CHARITABLE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE THEY SERVE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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