Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

PHAB LIFE 

The Phab Charity Shop provides a training environment for people with additional needs in a real working environment. Our clients receive assistance in learning new retail skills from one to one assistance to support being on hand when required.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
30/04/23£173,512£177,965£-4,45315
30/04/22£191,109£174,238£16,87115
30/04/21?*£87,635£64,385£23,2505
30/07/20?£104,095£50,960£53,1355
30/04/19£48,378£43,856£4,52230
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

phablife.org.uk

jenny@phablife.org.uk

07709913748

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Essex,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 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
Essex Community Foundation£23,630
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
DCMS£9,839
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,000
Co-Operative Group£3,928
The Foyle Foundation£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Phab Life
£1,720 21/10/2023
We would like to continue to run our two training centres, provide mentoring and one-to-one support to enable our trainees to gain skills and confidence to move on to other opportunities.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Phab Life
£8,000 02/03/2023
to support the core costs of a learning café, providing training and work experience in the food and customer service sector, for young people with additional needs in Leigh-on-Sea
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Phab Life
£2,208 22/10/2022
We would like to fund the running costs of Phab Life activities and our Phabulous Cafe training programme. This includes paying a professional to provide one-to-one job coaching and trainee mentoring.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£3,000 08/07/2021
towards core costs over the next 12 months
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Phab Life
£2,869 19/05/2021
to support the operating costs of a young social enterprise which provides training and work experience in the food and customer service sector, together with a range of social activities, for young ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Phab Life
£7,131 30/04/2021
to support the operating costs of a young social enterprise which provides training and work experience in the food and customer service sector, together with a range of social activities, for young ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,839 22/09/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 20/03/2020
The Phab Cafe
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Phab Shop
£5,000 20/01/2020
purchase of equipment and installation of new flooring for a charity which works with people with disabilities in Essex
Essex Community Foundation - The Phap Cafe
£5,630 06/12/2019
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Towards the costs of equipping and setting up the Phab Café as a social enterprise for training young people with additional needs in the food and customer service sector, in Leigh on Sea
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/04/2018, number: 1178032
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 80 days late,
Main office

Seven Oaks
Napier Road
RAYLEIGH
Essex
SS6 8HH

Objectives

The objects of the CIO are- To promote social inclusion for the public benefit for people who are disabled, have a mental health issue or learning disability who are excluded from society, or part of society as a result of their disability, mental health issue or learning disability by relieving the needs of those people and assisting them to integrate into society. - To advance the social education and training of disabled people within South East Essex due to their social or economic circumstances or otherwise, are in need and unable to gain employment in the United Kingdom.- To relieve the needs of people who are disabled, have a mental health issue or a learning disability by providing volunteering and training opportunities within The Phab Shop and The Phabulous Caf? and by such other means as the trustees decide. - To relieve the charitable needs of disabled people within South East Essex in particular but not exclusively by: improving the involvement and representation of disabled peoplepromoting greater awareness of disability within the South East Essex community.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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