Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS FOUNDATION 

To inspire, support and educate the young people of our region and their communities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

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
31/08/23£1,461£1,349£111£0£487£4263.83737
31/08/22£1,170£1,028£142£0£376£770.92850
31/08/21£729£536£193£50£234£1022.31450
31/08/20£405£358£47n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/08/19?*£379£384£-6n/an/an/an/an/a26
31/05/18£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 87%
Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 3.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 6 years

https://www.northamptonsaintsfoundation.co.uk

admin@northamptonsaintsfoundation.org

01604751543

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other individual and family services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Buckinghamshire, Coventry City, Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 37 employees
  • 37 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£149,060
National Lottery Heritage Fund£76,350
DCMS£73,200
Northamptonshire Community Foundation£38,250
Suffolk Community Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to Northampton Saints Foundation
£3,000 04/08/2023
To continue existing work
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Remembering Our History, Changing Their Future
£5,000 02/05/2023
We would like to hold a monthly reminiscence café, held onsite at cinch Stadium at Franklins Gardens, to offer meaningful engagements with supporters and members of the community, that may be ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Northampton Saints Foundation
£65,550 22/03/2023
Black, Green and Golden Age of Northampton Saints RFU
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Saints Foundation
£6,250 21/11/2022
support of the Northampton Saints Foundation into the 2022/23 academic year
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to Northampton Saints Foundation
£3,000 27/05/2022
To continue existing work
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Support for vulnerable young people excluded from mainstream education
£5,000 19/05/2022
to support the delivery costs of our Engage programmes in Northampton which support young people aged 9 - 16 who have been or are risk of being excluded from mainstream education.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - To continue existing work
£5,000 20/04/2022
To continue existing work
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Therapist Funding
£149,060 24/03/2022
The funding will be used to employ a Youth Therapist. This new role would enable the group to provide more holistic but also specialist support to children and young people who are NEET or at risk of ....more
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Heritage Programme
£3,000 20/09/2021
to employ a Heritage Lead to help research, document and share the heritage of the club
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to Northampton Saints Foundation
£5,000 09/03/2021
To continue existing work
Suffolk Community Foundation - Values and Community Initiative
£20,000 23/09/2020
12
To support "Values and Community Initiative" enabling all to play rugby, working with PRU's and Inspire to attract those most vulnerable.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£73,200 25/06/2020
"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
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£2,500 05/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Rugby Union
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Northampton Saints Foundation
£10,800 02/06/2020
COVID19 Northampton Saints Foundation (NSF)
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Engage Programme
£3,000 06/04/2020
3
Engage uses practical and classroom-based activities to empower students, increase confidence and give them the skills to improve their life chances. The objective of the programme is re-engagement ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Northampton Saints Foundation
£62,100 21/02/2019
The story behind Edgar Mobbs's Sportsman’s Battalion
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 44-65
  • ELLA BEVAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director
  • JON DROWN (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director Of Treasury & Corpora
  • MARK DARBON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chief Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/12/2017, number: 1176345
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/10/2017, number: 11007826
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
6 returns made; AR19: 38 days late,
Main office

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS FOUNDATION
FRANKLINS GARDENS
WEEDON ROAD
NORTHAMPTON
NN5 5BG

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF NORTHAMPTON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:3.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF RUGBY AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH (FACILITIES IN THIS ARTICLE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);3.2 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3.3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH HEALTHY RECREATION AND SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;3.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) OF CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS THROUGH SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; AND3.5 FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN EACH CASE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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