Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 9

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Overall weighted support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 6

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS UK FOUNDATION

Big Brothers Big Sisters UK is a national charity enabling long term mentoring relationships of children at risk by a trusted adult. The aim is to help children fulfill their potential. It has brought the model from the US and adapted for the UK context. We work in partnership to fulfill our objectives.

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Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there only 4 trustees?
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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
30/06/23		£78	£85	£-8	n/a
30/06/22	*	£71	£72	£-2	n/a
30/06/21	*	£50	£24	£26	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

nicholaswbooth@gmail.com

07528218489

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Social youth organisations

How it operates

Makes grants to organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Oxfordshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

ZING	£60,000
Dulverton Trust	£50,000
Pears Foundation	£30,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£20,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
ZING - Core funding toward the continued development of a digital platform to track and support Big Brothers and Big Sisters in the UK
£30,000	01/03/2023	Big Brothers Big Sisters UK has replicated the US model in Oxford since 2017, supporting 60+ children and their families. Throughout the pandemic, they began to develop a web app to support the management team in the monitoring and support of their ....more Big Brothers Big Sisters UK has replicated the US model in Oxford since 2017, supporting 60+ children and their families. Throughout the pandemic, they began to develop a web app to support the management team in the monitoring and support of their volunteer Big Brothers and Big Sisters. The team has starting to replicate the adapted model in other local authorities across the South with local partners. This funding is for the continued iteration of the platform to support Oxford and new local authorities in their roll out of the programme, supporting growth and continued quality assurance. This funding is unrestricted, and covers the year two development costs of BBBSUK's roadmap into new local authorities, iterating their support of partner organisations in each location (including Surrey and West Sussex).
Pears Foundation - Grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters
£30,000	03/12/2021	Pears DCMS Volunteering Futures Fund
ZING - Core funding toward the continued early stage development of a digital platform to track and support Big Brothers and Big Sisters
£30,000	01/09/2021 12	Big Brothers Big Sisters UK has replicated the US model in Oxford since 2017, supporting 60+ children and their families. Throughout the pandemic, they began to develop a web app to support the management team in the monitoring and support of their ....more Big Brothers Big Sisters UK has replicated the US model in Oxford since 2017, supporting 60+ children and their families. Throughout the pandemic, they began to develop a web app to support the management team in the monitoring and support of their volunteer Big Brothers and Big Sisters. The team has starting to replicate the adapted model in other local authorities across the South with local partners. This funding is for the continued iteration of the platform to support Oxford and the new local authorities in their roll out of the programme, supporting growth and continued quality assurance.
Dulverton Trust - Roll out of the BBBS programme
£50,000	21/10/2020	Roll out of the BBBS programme
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Mentoring children on the edge of care
£20,000	17/02/2020	Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBSUK) is a project based in Oxfordshire and run in partnership between Oxfordshire County Council Children's Services and Oxford Hub. It creates long term mentoring and friendships between mentors and children aged 7-11. ....more Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBSUK) is a project based in Oxfordshire and run in partnership between Oxfordshire County Council Children's Services and Oxford Hub. It creates long term mentoring and friendships between mentors and children aged 7-11. This grant supports the organisation to scale up its mentoring support to up to 100 children on the edge of care in two new locations.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-70

JEFFREY SHEAR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director

LUCY BUTLER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director

NICHOLAS WEBSTER BOOTH (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Executive

PAUL GIBBS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/10/2020, number: 1191881
Registered at Companies House on 11/06/2019, number: 12043014

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

3 returns made; AR22: 17 days late, AR21: 5 days late,

Main office

6 Wingfield Close
Ewelme
WALLINGFORD
Oxfordshire
OX10 6JY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROVIDING OR SUPPORTING THE PROVISION OF MENTORING AND SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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