Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 5

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 7

LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION CHARITY

Life Skills Education Charity develop and deliver DAaRT (Drug, Alcohol and Resilience Training) resources in schools. Our programmes are independently evaluated and proven to work, put together using evidence from research and follow government guidelines and best practice. Our team of trained facilitators deliver our programmes to over 13,000 young people in over 300 schools each year.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male
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
Income has been volatile recently

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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
31/08/23		£312	£380	£-68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/08/22		£416	£457	£-42	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/08/21		£554	£509	£46	£8	£159	£152	3.6	41	0
31/08/20		£500	£399	£101	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/08/19		£230	£223	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/18	*	£214	£208	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years
(12 years as a company)

https://lifeskillseducation.co.uk

info@lifeskills-education.co.uk

03001113273

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Medical education & research

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Barnsley, Derby City, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Rotherham, Sheffield City,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
16 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	£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
The Clothworkers Foundation	£10,000
The Grocers' Charity	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Life Skills Education Charity
£5,000	28/04/2023	to support tailored conversations for small groups of young people about their response to drugs, knives and alcohol. The intervention builds and introduces a decision-making model, and then the YP ....more to support tailored conversations for small groups of young people about their response to drugs, knives and alcohol. The intervention builds and introduces a decision-making model, and then the YP applies it to different scenarios.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	22/07/2022	Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Key Stage 2 Life Skills Education Programme
£10,000	10/06/2022	The funding will be used to help young people in schools youth clubs community groups and government run youth inclusion programmes develop social emotional learning skills in themed activities. The ....more The funding will be used to help young people in schools youth clubs community groups and government run youth inclusion programmes develop social emotional learning skills in themed activities. The project aims to provide programmes focussing on prescription and illegal drugs alcohol violence bullying peer pressure stress smoking theft psychoactive substances knife and hate crime as well as the concept of taking responsibility. It will achieve this by providing facilitators with diagnostic and evaluation tools to tailor teaching to the particular needs and concerns of their children.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Life Skills Education Charity
£10,000	09/09/2020	purchase of IT equipment for a charity that works with alcohol abuse in Nottinghamshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Keeping Safe Online
£10,000	07/09/2018 12	This funding will be used to deliver an internet safety programme for vulnerable young people. The project aims to increase awareness of online safety and improve decision making skills.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 17-18
£13,100	01/12/2017	The fund has been set up to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. Bids have been assessed on ....more The fund has been set up to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. Bids have been assessed on the extent to which they provide value for money and demonstrate, based on their understanding of knife crime in the local area, that they will achieve at least one of the following key aims:Â? Prevent young people from becoming involved in carrying a knifeÂ? Respond to knife crime in our communitiesÂ? Improve support for knife crime offenders and offer an effective exit strategyÂ? Increase reporting of knife carryingÂ? Help young people to deal with conflict without resorting to violenceÂ? Support the siblings of young people involved in or at risk of involvement in knife violenceÂ? Build our understanding of the drivers behind knife crimeÂ? Build our understanding of how to prevent young people from carrying knives
National Lottery Community Fund - DARE Game Refresh and New Modules
£10,000	16/12/2015 12	The group will use the funding to create new software offering guidance on road safety, fire awareness and substance misuse. This will enable children and young people to access and download free ....more The group will use the funding to create new software offering guidance on road safety, fire awareness and substance misuse. This will enable children and young people to access and download free interactive resources to improve and increase knowledge and confidence concerning issues relating to their health, safety and well being.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 41-61

CHRIS COOKE (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant

ELIZABETH MCINTYRE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

MATTHEW PHILLIPS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Teacher

REGINALD COX Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant

SUBHASH DESAI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Finance

THOMAS WHEATLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Public Sector

LESLIE AYOOLA Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/04/2017, number: 1172680
Registered at Companies House on 16/08/2011, number: 07742739

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; AR18: 9 days late,

Main office

Life Skills Education Centre
6 Sherwood Rise
NOTTINGHAM
NG7 6JF

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 9 TO 16 THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES WHO ARE VULNERABLE TO BECOMING ADDICTED TO OR DEPENDENT UPON DRUGS, IN PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND RAISING AWARENESS THROUGH EVIDENCED BASED LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES.

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