Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 13
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

IGNITE YOUTH 

Our projects offer sports (basketball, boxing and gym sessions), mentoring and music production. In addition we arrange outings away from home areas to expand horizons and raise aspirations.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£355,098£326,718£28,3803
31/03/22£359,018£328,393£30,6253
31/03/21£409,856£157,162£252,6944
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

igniteyouth.org.uk

office@igniteyouth.org.uk

02088632089

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 3 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
John Lyon's Charity£163,200
BBC Children in Need£110,590
Henry Smith Charity£90,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£58,922
Youth Music£29,499
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Ignite Youth
£10,000 17/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Ignite Youth
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ignite Youth
£90,000 26/05/2022
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towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of an Employment Support Worker at project providing support to establish pathways to education, training or employment for marginalised young ....more
Youth Music - Ignite Music
£29,499 04/03/2022
Ignite Music
John Lyon's Charity - Recovery grant to Ignite Youth
£150,000 18/11/2021
Core Costs
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 27/10/2021
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Ignite Youth supports young people aged 11-25 in Harrow, from predominantly Black and minoritised backgrounds, facing multiple disadvantages. They engage young people that feel disenfranchised or ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Ignite Youth
£50,000 20/10/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Ignite Youth
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Ignite Youth
£3,200 21/06/2021
Ignite Summer 2021
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Ignite Youth
£97,611 21/12/2020
This project will provide a programme of mentoring, activities and outreach to support young people from areas of deprivation who are marginalised to move away from involvement in crime and ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Ignite Youth
£12,979 30/11/2020
This grant will support organisational costs of work with young people in Harrow facing multiple disadvantages who are additionally affected by Covid-19 and support them to improve their ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Ignite Youth
£6,672 23/07/2020
Grant to Ignite Youth meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Ignite Youth
£40,000 05/10/2018
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Main Grant unrestricted core costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/06/2020, number: 1189771
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
3 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from IGNITE TRUST on 20/10/2020
Main office

9 Scott Crescent
Rayners Lane
Harrow
HA2 0TY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY, WHICH IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO BE CARRIED OUT WITHIN A CHRISTIAN ETHOS ARE: TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF BARNET, BRENT, EALING, HARROW AND HILLINGDON BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: (A)ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; (B)ADVANCING EDUCATION; (C)RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; (D)PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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