Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

CAMBRIDGE ACORN PROJECT 

We undertake therapeutic and structural (justice-focused) work with children and families and we work closely with other agencies, including statutory and voluntary services and schools. We are also developing a model of therapeutic community work and we offer training, advice, advocacy and supervision. We work across Cambridgeshire.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and 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

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
31/08/22£399£309£90n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/08/21£266£282£-16n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/08/20£193£188£5n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/08/19£135£119£16n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/08/18£106£90£16£0£0£0n/a01
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years
(9 years as a company)

www.cambridgeacornproject.org.uk

info@cambridgeacornproject.org.uk

07507740047

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
National Lottery Community Fund£432,787
DCMS£92,750
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£44,710
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Sport England£9,480
CAF£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Street-Level Wellbeing Support System (SLWSS) - Cambridge
£35,960 13/12/2023
to develop a partnership Street-Level Wellbeing Support System (SLWSS) in Abbey, Cambridge along with Abbey People and Cambridge United Foundation, which will include a weekly community wellbeing ....more
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Cambridge Wellbeing Hub Extension (King's Hedges Satellite Hub)
£5,000 17/10/2023
towards opening a new satellite hub in the King’s Hedges ward to meet the rapidly increasing need for children and families to access long-term, holistic mental health support
National Lottery Community Fund - Empathetic Communities Extension: Street Level Trauma Response System (SLTRS)
£423,212 20/01/2023
The funding will be used to extend the project's trauma-focused-and-informed programme in East Cambridgeshire. The funding will also contribute to core costs including a fundraiser to enable them to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 20/05/2022
Core Costs
Sport England - Jubilee Fund Enrichment Inclusion Project
£9,480 28/04/2022
This project will provide services through Active Play Education and will engage with 5 different high needs schools and communities in East Cambs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Inequalities in Mental Health - COVID-19 Response
£9,575 09/07/2021
The funding will be used to pay towards a salary for a Children’s Inequality Practitioner. The project which tackles inequalities in wellbeing following Adverse Childhood Experiences aims to offer ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£15,000 18/12/2020
Main Grants award - COVID19 response
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£77,750 17/07/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Cambridge Acorn Project
£4,000 27/05/2020
3
Grant to Cambridge Acorn Project to support the organisation through COVID19
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Cambridge Acorn Project CIC
£3,750 07/04/2020
4
to launch a Therapeutic Support Line and video sessions to offer emotional support to 150 families under stress or with children experiencing distress; healthcare, education and social care workers ....more
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£10,000 28/02/2020
Therapeutic work with traumatised children
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£5,000 28/02/2020
Therapeutic work with traumatised children. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empathetic Communities
£340,712 19/12/2018
48
The organisation will use funding to deliver a therapeutic model of community work to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and their families. The project will draw upon the natural empathy in ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Tetris Trauma Project
£9,640 06/12/2017
12
This project will provide therapeutic Tetris video sessions with young children and their families who have experienced trauma and find it difficult to speak about issues affecting them, with a view ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 23-78
  • NICHOLE GIBSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Creative And Production
  • THOMAS WILLIAMS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: External Partnerships And Outreach Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/10/2017, number: 1175019
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/08/2014, number: 09187469
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

FUTURE BUSINESS CENTRE
KINGS HEDGES ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB4 2HY

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND SURROUNDING LOCALITIES SUFFERING FROM IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TRAUMA OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF A THERAPEUTIC MODEL OF SOCIAL WORK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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