Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 16
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +16

MYLIFEMYSAY 

To empower our generation to participate in democracy, by creating spaces for dialogue across communities and generations, and by providing young and socially excluded citizens with the tools to lead change within society.
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 well diversified in terms of age and 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
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 8 years
(10 years as a company)

www.mylifemysay.org.uk

info@mlms.org.uk

03301310353

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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
30/04/23£139£216£-77n/an/an/an/an/a15
30/04/22£234£230£4n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/21*£274£173£102n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/20*£236£139£97n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/19£123£113£10n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/04/18£96£71£25£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/17£50£48£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 15 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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£336,000
Esmee Fairbairn£180,000
National Lottery Community Fund£150,000
John Ellerman Foundation£120,000
The Blagrave Trust£90,000
City Bridge Trust£50,541
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust£26,215
DCMS£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to My Life My Say
£180,000 19/07/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs for the Squad Leadership Programme: A comprehensive capacity-building and leadership programme to equip socially-excluded youth with the tools to lead change in society
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Driving the Next Generation of political engagement
£150,000 09/05/2023
My Life My Say (MLMS) is a youth-led, non-partisan charity on a mission to create an age of political engagement that will deliver greater social inclusion and equality allowing the space for ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - The grant will be spent on salary costs, development for staff and digital engagement.
£120,000 25/11/2021
36
The grant will be spent on salary costs, development for staff and digital engagement.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Groundbreaker Fellowship
£1,500 18/01/2021
My Life My Say is a youth-led charity that empowers young people to participate in democracy. This mini-grant supports the continued development of the Groundbreaker Fellowship programme, which ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Boosting democratic engagement for young people across the UK.
£60,000 23/11/2020
My Life My Say (MLMS) is a youth-led, non-partisan charity that aims to create an age of political engagement that will deliver greater social inclusion and equality allowing the space for dialogue ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to My Life My Say
£30,701 02/09/2020
towards costs outlined in your application of scaling up activities and connecting with more young Londoners through the use of digital means and empowering young people to participate in democracy
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 17/08/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to My Life My Say
£19,840 08/05/2020
A grant of £19,840 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to London.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£10,000 16/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Groundbreaker Fellowship
£5,000 16/03/2020
My Life My Say is a youth-led charity that empowers young people to participate in democracy. This mini-grant will support the continued development of the Groundbreaker Fellowship programme, which ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Vote For Your Future
£10,000 12/11/2019
2
To deliver on and offline activities to drive voter registration ahead of the November 2019 general election.
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust - UpVote
£26,215 04/10/2019
7
to motivate disengaged young people to participate in elections
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Groundbreaker Fellowship
£99,500 03/09/2019
24
To expand the scope and nature of democratic engagement activities by developing more Democracy Cafes, a Common Futures Forum and a Social Inclusion Unit.
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Bridges: A Youth Vision
£150,000 29/08/2019
36
Building Bridges: A Youth Vision
The Blagrave Trust - Unrestricted funding
£90,000 16/07/2019
MLMS unrestricted funding
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Boosting democratic engagement for young people across the UK.
£60,000 10/12/2018
24
MLMS is a youth-led charity that aims to empower young people to participate in democracy. MLMS will expand the scope and nature of their democratic engagement activities by increasing Democracy ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Common Futures - Social Action
£10,000 22/06/2018
12
The funding will be used to run café sessions where younger and older members of the community can come together to discuss ideas to address local issues.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Common Futures Forum: Young European Citizens Project
£20,000 23/05/2018
7
To support the Young European Citizens project
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Build Your Future: EU youth perspectives and priorities on Brexit
£35,000 11/12/2017
12
This project seeks to represent the voices of young EU citizens who are at risk of being overlooked as Britain exits the EU. Working with local communities, the project will deliver a number of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-56
  • JOANNE RICH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Youth Engagement Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/06/2016, number: 1167431
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/04/2013, number: 08500803
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR21: 18 days late, AR20: 60 days late,
Main office

Plexal
14 East Bay Lane
The Press Centre
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
London
E20 3BS

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1 TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE DEMOCRATIC AND POLITICAL PROCESS AND BY ENCOURAGING THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THAT PROCESS.2.2 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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