Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: -6

Support Score: 7

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Static board: -3
All male board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: -2

UNITY ACADEMY

Unity Academy is a registered charity working with Young People, and Children in Bradford and surrounding areas.We offer a wide range of activities from accredited training, educational and personal development classes, activity play schemes, sports and well-being activities, as well as delivering timetabled community development activity in a number of weekly activities groups

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male
The Board composition appears to be rather static

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/07/23		£25,935	£20,040	£5,895	17
31/07/22		£33,288	£23,547	£9,741	14
31/07/21		£81,793	£47,873	£33,920	14
31/07/20	*	£32,024	£21,635	£10,389	16

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

unityboxingacademy@outlook.com

01274491919

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Recreation

GiG Classification

Social clubs and similar

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
17 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

Sport England	£38,915
DCMS	£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,860
Leeds Community Foundation	£5,680

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH. Unity in the Community
£9,860	04/08/2023	The funding will be used to provide boxing-based fitness and physical activity sessions for young people week throughout the summer holidays. The project aims to improve mental and physical health ....more The funding will be used to provide boxing-based fitness and physical activity sessions for young people week throughout the summer holidays. The project aims to improve mental and physical health and reduce the risk of anti-social behaviour.
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Unity Academy
£2,500	01/11/2022	Grant to Unity Academy
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Box Fit.. Fitness, Safety and Wellbeing
£9,220	10/03/2022	This project will aim to address wellbeing by tackling inactivity whilst addressing ASB and Violent Behaviours by running workshops and Sports activity using Boxing, conflict resolution interventions ....more This project will aim to address wellbeing by tackling inactivity whilst addressing ASB and Violent Behaviours by running workshops and Sports activity using Boxing, conflict resolution interventions and de-escalation training.
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Unity Academy
£1,159	13/10/2021	We would like to do something similar. however this time we will target young girls at risk of CSE and grooming providing them with similar opportunities to engage and develop awareness
Leeds Community Foundation - Reducing Crime and Anti-social behaviour
£2,021	08/06/2021	In Summer 2019 we ran a summer camp at the gym the camp was organised as a diversionary activity for young people and aimed to support those are at risk of getting involved in ASB and crime we worked ....more In Summer 2019 we ran a summer camp at the gym the camp was organised as a diversionary activity for young people and aimed to support those are at risk of getting involved in ASB and crime we worked with partners from Education, Police to Youth Offending, Bradford Hate Crime Alliance and Social Housing Providers to have a range of referral routes and also to bring in professionals to speak to young and advise them on life choices and the dangers of criminal and anti social activity. this was really successful and if not for the Pandemic and Coivid 19, we would have run a similar programme in 2020. Imran Khan the MP for the area wrote to us and thanked us for the contribution we were making in the area and we have a letter sent on Government Headed paper. In addition this was hailed as being an innovative project amongst area coordinators in the City
Sport England - TGC CF Girl Power
£9,200	24/11/2020 11	This project will run regular health and wellbeing activities including boxing for women and girls 16+.
Sport England - Covid-19 Return to Play
£15,000	12/11/2020 4	Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Covid-19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Boxing
DCMS - ALB-SportEngland-Covid-19 Return to Play
£15,000	12/11/2020	Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Covid-19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Boxing.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£5,495	29/04/2020 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 Boxing

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

BYRON FRANCIS (Chair) Appointed: 2019

PAV SINGH Appointed: 2019

UMAR HAYAT Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/06/2019, number: 1184077

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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

4 returns made; AR20: 169 days late,

Main office

Unity Academy
Second Floor
Greenhill Mills
Florence Street
Bradford
BD3 8EX

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BRADFORD AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE SPORT OF AMATEUR BOXING

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