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Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteers +5
    • Grant maker support: +4
    Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

    FIRST STEP ACTION 

    Activities with Children and Parents, day outs with children, football club and etc.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers 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
    • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
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    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
    Deficit    		 Volun-
    teers
    31/03/22£6,558£6,558£08
    31/03/21£33,880£28,021£5,8598
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    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 4 years

    info@firststepaction.com

    07734233707

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
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    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • Sports activities
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout London,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 8 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
    The London Community Foundation£10,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£8,118
    City Bridge Trust£4,980
    Camden Giving£4,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months    		 To be used for
    The London Community Foundation - Grant to First Step Action
    £10,000 30/06/2020
    We are applying for second wave funding to offer consistent service to our service clients, who we are reading providing to them with the first wave basic necessity food etc and and staff cost to ....more
    Camden Giving - First Step Action
    £4,000 08/06/2020
    8
    First Step Action will continue to work with Kentish Town Community Centre, SYDRC organisation, British Somali organisation, and others.
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to First Step Action
    £4,980 24/04/2020
    A grant of £4,980 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
    National Lottery Community Fund - strengthening families strengthening
    £8,118 21/06/2019
    12
    The funding will be used to deliver a programme of support activities that are designed to support parents and children from the Somali community. The project aims to reduce truancy and deter ....more

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (3)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/12/2019, number: 1187039
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    2 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    A C T S A
    200a Pentonville Road
    LONDON
    N1 9JP

    Objectives

    THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PARENTS/CARERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE SOMALIAN COMMUNITY, WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, DUE TO THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION BY THE PROVISION OF A PARENTS’ SOCIAL GROUP, PARENTING COURSES AND DROP IN SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL COURSES TO ENABLE PARENTS/CARERS AND THEIR CHILDREN TO DEVELOP AND GAIN NEW SKILLS.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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