Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +3
    Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

    CHANGE AHEAD NON-PROFIT CHARITY 

    The charity provides relief of those in need throughout England who are homeless or facing homelessness, by making grants of money for providing or paying for housing deposits and/or rent, paying for items, social housing services, or facilities, in collaboration with partners. For sustainable housing solutions, the charity will own or lease buildings to relieve the needs of such persons.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker and there are significant future grants due to be received

    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 ?

    Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
    Deficit
    Volun-
    teers
    31/07/23£26,577£3,834£22,7430
    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 2 years

    www.changeahead.org.uk

    info@changeahead.org.uk

    03337729259

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Disability
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England And Wales,
    Who it helps
    • The General Public/Mankind

    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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £15,000 07/08/2023
    Sustainable Housing and Education in Vertical Farming

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (3)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/07/2022, number: 1199619
    Gift Aid
    • 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
    • Conflicting interests
    • 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
    • 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
    1 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    CHANGE AHEAD NON-PROFIT CHARITY
    Office 2E
    Argyle House
    Joel Street
    Northwood
    HA6 1LL

    Objectives

    THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND WHO ARE HOMELESS OR ROUGH SLEEPING OR FACING HOMELESSNESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR HOUSING DEPOSITS, ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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