Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

YOUNG BRENT FOUNDATION 

The Young Brent Foundation [YBF] is a membership, infrastructure support organisation, focused on Brent youngpeople, supporting the VCS, not-for-profit and social enterprises and has five headline priorities Venue Bank, SmallGrants, revenue generation for the sector and capacity support to ensure contract / grant readiness and collaboration and networking to develop cross sector working.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 8 years

WWW.YOUNGBRENTFOUNDATION.ORG.UK

INFO@YOUNGBRENTFOUNDATION.ORG.UK

07985705566

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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£1,275£1,637£-363£0£432£150.1197
31/03/22*£1,708£1,274£434£778£974£7947.5514
31/03/21*£881£778£103£0£364£440.734
31/03/20£606£400£206£0£261£882.631
31/03/19£395£491£-96n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/18*£341£307£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£367£250£117£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 4%
Reserves/Spending: 0.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 7.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Brent,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 19 employees
  • 7 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Young Brent Foundation
£10,000 17/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
John Lyon's Charity - YPF Small Grants grant to Young Brent Foundation
£200,000 16/06/2021
HSC YPF Small Grants Fund Brent
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Young Brent Foundation
£49,985 11/09/2020
towards the cost of providing Education Technology Community Charity with funding to deliver a project to support 200-500 children/young people improve their health and wellbeing, as outlined in your ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Young Brent Foundation
£7,530 19/05/2020
£7,530 towards three months of costs as outlined in your application.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Young Brent 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’
John Lyon's Charity - Capacity Building grant to Young Brent Foundation
£50,000 11/03/2020
12
Culture & Heritage Small Grants Programme
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Young Brent Foundation
£90,000 13/11/2019
36
Brent Supplementary Schools Forum
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Young Brent 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 Brent Foundation’s work in support of voluntary sector organisations working with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Valuing Life
£469,738 30/01/2019
36
The project will support young people becoming involved in gangs and knife crime. They will focus on universal prevention work in schools with 8-13 year olds and targeted early intervention with ....more
Sport England - Fun fit families
£402,385 23/04/2018
38
Funding under Sport England's Families Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Fun fit families. This project lists its main activity as Multi-Skill Coaching
National Lottery Community Fund - Better together, Young Brent Online Community Hub Project.
£9,950 08/02/2017
12
This project will use the funding to create a website and set of online skills platform. This will provide local community organisations with access to resources which enable them to improve their ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/03/2016, number: 1165871
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
7 returns made; AR22: 30 days late, AR21: 95 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 24 days late,
Main office

ACAVA
Unit 3
Barham Park
660 Harrow Road
WEMBLEY
Middlese

Objectives

1. THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, ADVICE AND TRAINING TO CHARITIES AND THROUGH ASSISTING NON-CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS TO DIRECTLY FURTHER A CHARITABLE PURPOSE.2. TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH MAKING GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS THAT DO ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING: - THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;- PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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