Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

THE BRECK FOUNDATION 

Founded in 2014 in memory Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who was groomed & then murdered by someone he met online, we are at the forefront of efforts to help children & young people develop digital resilience & thrive online. We do this through education & campaigning, taking a 'whole community' approach. We are a South East England based charity, but our work has national relevance & impact.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
31/05/23£256£258£-1n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/05/22£189£227£-38n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/05/21£225£144£82n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/20*£236£168£68n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/19£175£211£-36n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/05/18£173£140£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/17£110£66£44£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.breckfoundation.org

admin@breckfoundation.org

01883621102

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Social & legal advocacy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 2 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£60,000
Community Foundation for Surrey£33,400
National Lottery Community Fund£18,648
CAF£10,000
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
DCMS£4,300
Co-Operative Group£3,050
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - RISE e2e - sustainable partnerships with schools to prevent online grooming and exploitation
£10,000 08/02/2024
11.774193548387
Funding for a preventative programme for children in the school environment to tackle online harm and grooming.
National Lottery Community Fund - Game Over - using theatre to protect young people from online grooming
£10,000 20/01/2023
The funding will be used to deliver a theatre production raising awareness of online grooming. The project aims to reduce the risk for young people enabling them to provide support to each other.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 26/08/2022
Core costs for work to protect children and young people from online grooming and exploitation
Community Foundation for Surrey - Education Programme Coordinator
£6,000 28/07/2022
Funding for an Education Programme Co-ordinator to ensure services reach the most deprived areas of Surrey
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-The Breck Foundation
£5,000 22/06/2022
Towards core costs of hiring the charity's first full-time Education Programme Coordinator. As well as delivering presentations in schools, the coordinator will expand the Programme, and build ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Schools presentations to prevent online grooming and exploitation
£7,400 01/11/2021
11
Funding towards an organisation to go into Surrey schools and give internet safety presentations to safeguard children against online grooming and exploitation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Protecting young people from online grooming in Surrey and London
£8,648 20/08/2021
The funding will be used to continue to deliver presentations in schools by expert speakers on the dangers of online grooming.The project aims to empower young people to make better decisions to stay ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Breck Foundation
£3,050 24/10/2020
Give education sessions to local schools and groups to educate young people and adults, giving them digital resilience to stay safe online.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£4,300 24/08/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£35,000 21/08/2020
Protecting children and young people from online grooming and exploitation - our core work, including a strategic triple step change.
CAF - Grant to The Breck Foundation
£10,000 29/05/2020
3
Grant to The Breck Foundation to support the organisation through COVID19
Community Foundation for Surrey - Protecting children and young people from online grooming, exploitation and exposure to inappropriate conduct.
£10,000 23/01/2020
12
Funding for the core costs of the charity that safeguards children against online grooming and exploitation, that are based Surrey.
Essex Community Foundation - Breck Foundation School Speakers Project extension to Essex
£5,000 14/02/2019
11
To help deliver a programme in schools across the county to educate young people on internet safety
National Lottery Community Fund - School Speakers
£10,000 29/11/2018
12
The project aims to raise awareness of the need for internet safety amongst young people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 06/02/2018
Keeping Young People Safer Online
Community Foundation for Surrey - Online safety lessons for children with Special Educational Needs
£10,000 19/06/2017
10
Internet safety presentations within Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools in Surrey
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/07/2016, number: 1168384
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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR20: 68 days late,
Main office

34-35 Hatton Garden
Suite 3672
Unit 3A
Holborn
London
EC1N 8DX

Objectives

THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE EFFECTS OF ONLINE GROOMING, EXPLOITATION AND/OR EXPOSURE TO INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT THROUGH THE INTERNET, SOCIAL NETWORK SITES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE DANGERS OF SOCIAL NETWORK SITES, ONLINE GROOMING AND OTHER FORMS OF EXPLOITATION; IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION AND EDUCATION IN PROPER SAFEGUARDING AND UNDERSTANDING OF ON-LINE SAFETY FOR ALL.”

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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