Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

RACKETS CUBED 

Rackets Cubed is a UK based charity that runs integrated Rackets Sports, Tennis, Education (Maths) and Nutrition Programmes for local disadvantaged inner-city school children in aspirational settings? The kids play an hour of rackets sports, an hour of maths, then are fed a meal
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

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

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£422£421£2n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/22£289£288£1n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/21£208£190£18n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£114£62£52n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£76£60£16n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£75£34£40£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years
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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, City Of Wakefield, Kingston Upon Hull City, Leeds City, Manchester City, Peterborough City, Surrey, Throughout London, Walsall,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 50 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
Sport England£450,000
National Lottery Community Fund£150,000
London Marathon Charitable Trust£90,000
DCMS£50,000
The Wimbledon Foundation£12,875
The London Community Foundation£9,500
Co-Operative Group£6,906
City Bridge Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Sector Renewal Fund: Expansion of Integrated Sports, Education & Nutrition Progammes
£350,000 27/02/2023
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Sector Renewal Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Sector Renewal Fund: Expansion of Integrated Sports, Education and Nutrition Program. This ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Rackets Cubed
£1,202 22/10/2022
We provide essential food, personal hygiene, activity and educational supplies to approximately 150 young families (600 to 750 people) who have been identified as the most vulnerable to Covid-19.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wandsworth Rackets Cubed
£150,000 14/01/2022
The project is using funding towards an after-school program of integrated racket sports a STEM education class and a nutritional evening meal alongside nutritional advice. The programme is aimed at ....more
Sport England - Sector Renewal Fund: Expansion of Integrated Sports, Education and Nutrition Program
£100,000 03/12/2021
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Sector Renewal Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Sector Renewal Fund: Expansion of Integrated Sports, Education and Nutrition Program. This ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Rackets Cubed
£2,580 23/10/2021
We provide essential food, personal hygiene, and activity and educational supplies to approximately 150 young families (600 to 750 people) who have been identified as the most vulnerable to Covid-19.
The Wimbledon Foundation - Roehampton Community Week sports programme
£4,000 10/06/2021
8 week sports programmes for disadvantaged groups and a tennis celebration as part of Roehampton Community Week.
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Rackets Cubed Scaling
£15,000 24/03/2021
A grant towards an emergency response programme in Hillingdon, Brent Cross and Wandsworth
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Rackets Cubed
£4,500 18/02/2021
3
The funding is required to enhance the activity and food support. We have seen an increase in demand for the Boxes and food costs. Our recent impact work showed that many children were doing no ....more
The Wimbledon Foundation - Activity and community box programme
£3,875 01/02/2021
The funding is required to enhance the activity and food support to young people in Roehampton
The Wimbledon Foundation - Donation towards Community Boxes
£5,000 09/11/2020
1,250 community Boxes to distribute in Wandsworth including food, personal hygiene, education and activity content.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Rackets Cubed - Alton Estate
£3,124 24/10/2020
We run integrated sports, STEM education and nutrition programmes for vulnerable and disadvantaged young children in aspirational settings.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£50,000 05/10/2020
"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 Rackets Cubed
£5,000 19/05/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Rackets Cubed
£5,000 28/04/2020
We are providing essential Food, Personal Hygiene, Activity and Educational supplies “Community Boxes” to young families identified as the most vulnerable. We aim to provide weekly deliveries (to ....more
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Rackets Cubed
£75,000 16/10/2019
Towards extending the Rackets Cubed initiative to up to 20 new sites.
Sport England - London Cubed
£9,750 27/03/2019
10
Funding under Sport England's School Games funding programme for a Revenue project titled London Cubed. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
National Lottery Community Fund - Alton Cubed
£9,850 18/01/2019
12
The project will provide educational and sports sessions to young people. The aim is to promote the benefits of healthier lifestyles.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/12/2016, number: 1170744
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

17 CASTELLO AVENUE
LONDON
SW15 6EA

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF SCHOOL AGE LIVING IN ENGLAND BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND ADVANCING EDUCATION.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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