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 ?

BIG FUTURES FOUNDATION 

We support children from disadvantaged backgrounds from five years old, right through to when they start work. Our goal is to help children succeed in school, in work, and in life. We do this by providing free counselling sessions and Family Activity Groups for children and their families, to help children and their families improve their emotional wellbeing, resilience and life skills.
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
  • 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
Established: 7 years

www.bigfuturesfoundation.org.uk

admin@bigfuturesfoundation.org.uk

07503 493441

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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
31/12/22£89£74£15n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/21£35£56£-21n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/20*£66£32£33n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19£24£22£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18£23£20£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£14£2£12£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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
Two Ridings Community Foundation£42,000
DCMS£24,102
National Lottery Community Fund£19,900
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust£13,682
Masonic Trust£12,000
Co-Operative Group£7,288
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Futures Foundation
£2,749 21/10/2023
We would like to help children improve their emotional wellbeing, resilience and life skills. We provide free counselling services to children and their families and host family activity groups.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£12,000 18/10/2023
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Extending Our Reach
£10,000 07/12/2022
Funding towards CEO salary to help support the organisation expand into secondary schools in York.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Counselling and Life Skills Programme
£10,000 06/12/2022
Fudning will be used to provide 8 weeks of 1-to-1 counseliing to children and their parents particulalry those with anxiety and low self-esteem. The activities vary and include cookery, arts and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Activity Group
£9,900 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to deliver activity group sessions for children and families. The project aims to strengthen family relationships promote healthy lifestyles and wellbeing and support ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Big Futures
£5,000 14/09/2022
Funding for staff to reach two particular secondary schools in York for the first time, to work on identifying new funding opportunities, and to improve their evaluation processes.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Every child deserves the opportunity to have a big future and build a great life
£5,000 27/04/2022
Funding to continue work with disadvantaged children and their families in York by continuing to work with in schools, expanding to provide this service in new schools. BFF aims are: 1. To provide ....more
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - Helping kids build great lives (Hob Moor Primary School)
£7,459 15/02/2022
Counselling and Family Activity Group (Life Skills work) for children and families who attend Hob Moor Primary in York
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Futures Foundation
£4,540 24/10/2020
We’ll pay for a counsellor and activities at our Tang Hall school holiday club, to improve mental health and stop isolation for families.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£24,102 29/09/2020
"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
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£10,000 17/06/2020
Funding is sought to pay for consultation/input from business development, sales and fundraising experts in order to grow the foundation. The group support disadvantaged York children from age 5 ....more
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - Wellbeing, Skills and Community - Closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged children through emotional wellbeing and life skills development for children and their families
£6,223 05/05/2020
To deliver a school-based counselling and life skills programme for disadvantaged children and their families
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£2,000 29/04/2020
Funding sought to provide regular food parcels, household essentials, prescriptions to the families we support and to those who are self isolating. To cover volunteer and staff expenses incurred from ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BFF Family Activity Group
£10,000 27/06/2019
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The funding will be used to run activities for families in the local area, with the aim of improving mental health and well-being.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Helping Kids Build Great Lives - Closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged children through emotional wellbeing and life skills development for children and their families
£6,032 05/09/2017
Counselling project within schools with children and their parents
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/06/2017, number: 1173374
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR20: 5 days late,
Main office

19 CHESTNUT AVENUE
YORK
YO31 1BR

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).2) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPINGTHEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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