Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

21 TOGETHER 

Raising Expectations in the Down's syndrome community. We provide training, therapy/interventions for children and young people, parent support and awareness sessions for the wider community.
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
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 8 years

www.21together.org.uk

info@21together.org.uk

01622230720

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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
31/03/23£319£256£63n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22£252£218£34n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/21£235£123£112n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£64£96£-32n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19£113£64£49n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£69£48£21£0£0£0n/a00
01/04/17£27£10£17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Kent,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 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£411,004
Co-Op Foundation£150,000
BBC Children in Need£95,510
DCMS£56,703
Henry Smith Charity£17,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£7,300
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to 21 Together
£2,203 21/10/2023
Smile Club sessions are social groups for people with Down's syndrome aged from 11 to early 20s. We support them in developing their social, emotional and personal journey, as well as having fun!
Co-Op Foundation - Organisational Funding
£150,000 07/06/2023
Unrestricted funding. Organisation working to empower young people with Downs Syndrome
National Lottery Community Fund - Communication for Life for children and young people with Downs syndrome
£68,352 02/06/2023
The project will support children and young people with Down’s syndrome to live full and vibrant lives. The aim is to give these young people a voice while developing the skills needed to build ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 08/07/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 01/07/2022
21 in School
National Lottery Community Fund - Events to bring 21 Together
£8,304 10/06/2022
This project will support children and young people with Downs Syndrome that have faced isolation due to the pandemic along with their families to connect them to their peers. It will offer emotional ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to 21 Together
£7,300 06/05/2022
purchase IT equipment for a charity supporting people with disabilties in Kent
BBC Children in Need - Grant to 21 Together
£1,000 03/12/2021
This project will provide training and mentoring to a project worker who will deliver money management sessions to disadvantaged children. Children will improve their life skills through developing ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Learning for Life
£325,328 29/03/2021
34
This project supports children and young people with Down syndrome their families and those that work with them. Its aim is ensuring that everyone has the right to live to their fullest potential. ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 18/12/2020
Supporting Children and Young People with Down's syndrome- Revenue/unrestricted core costs-
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£53,777 23/07/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to 21 Together
£2,926 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund staff training and online delivery costs of communication groups for children and young people with Down’s Syndrome who are isolated due to Covid-19. It will help ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,926 19/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Understanding Down's syndrome - Raising Expectations
£9,020 06/03/2020
12
The funding will be used to deliver training for families, carers, health professionals and anyone else who supports a person with Down's syndrome. The project aims to empower parents and carers to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to 21 Together
£17,000 11/09/2019
24
towards two years' running costs of communication groups for children and young people with Down Syndrome living in Kent
BBC Children in Need - Grant to 21 Together
£91,584 26/06/2019
36
This project will deliver communication and wellbeing sessions to children with Downs Syndrome and their families. The support will reduce isolation, increase social communication and improve ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Understanding Down's syndrome
£9,466 14/02/2019
12
The organisation will provide training and information to raise awareness and educate professionals, carers and families who support the educational, social and daily skills and development of people ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to 21 Together
£3,919 19/11/2018
We want to run speech and language therapy groups in Kent for children and young people with Down's syndrome.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/01/2016, number: 1165305
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
  • Paying staff
  • 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
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Maidstone Community Support Centre
39-48 Marsham Street
MAIDSTONE
ME14 1HH

Objectives

1. To relieve the needs of people with Down's syndrome, living particularly but not exclusively in Kent and their families and carers through provision of training, support, education and practical advice, and by such other means as the trustees may determine.2. To advance the education of the public and in particular the parents and carers of people with down's syndrome and professionals involved in their care and education, in the specific needs and abilities of people with down's syndrome.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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