Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Positive trading contribution: +2;Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

ELIZABETH FINN CARE 

Helping eligible residents of the UK who live in poverty by means of regular financial allowances, grants and advice from dedicated case workers and volunteers.Turn2us website and helpline service is also provided to help anybody living in poverty in the UK to access the funds they are entitled to as regards state benefits and financial support from benevolent charities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 61 years
(71 years as a company)

www.turn2us.org.uk

info@turn2us.org.uk

02088349200

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£34,224£40,052£-5,828£30,073£63,065£37,88111.37200
31/03/22£31,846£34,908£-3,062£25,412£69,506£41,30914.27130
31/03/21£34,865£35,047£-182£25,902£69,729£41,29714.179840
31/03/20£35,818£33,876£1,942£25,593£52,210£30,86510.9698213
31/03/19£31,702£31,500£202£23,967£55,117£31,31711.9767160
31/03/18£30,463£31,268£-805£22,975£52,377£20,5687.97950
31/03/17£30,397£30,097£300£22,177£52,040£29,70811.87750
31/03/16£29,161£30,616£-1,455£22,073£45,904£26,00110.27910
31/03/15£28,846£31,214£-2,368£21,819£50,772£30,66111.86560
31/03/14£26,611£30,473£-3,862£20,902£49,636£31,41312.46330
31/03/13*£26,434£30,651£-4,217£20,169£52,879£35,647144770
31/03/12*£24,479£31,874£-7,396£22,032£54,294£38,12514.46390
31/03/11*£22,638£30,811£-8,173£21,378£44,970£34,97813.68040
31/03/10£22,596£29,841£-7,246£20,061£49,189£39,94416.16360
31/03/09£24,980£28,441£-3,461£20,451£44,996£35,96415.24470
31/03/08*£22,494£24,159£-1,665£1,039£54,214£44,89122.37090
31/03/07*£20,627£23,230£-2,604£15,463£47,798£47,26124.45650
31/03/06*£6,026£9,539£-3,514£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£19,497£21,050£-1,554£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£19,142£17,848£1,293£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1520.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 75.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 60%
Reserves/Spending: 11.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 720 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Greater London Authority£157,309
Westminster Foundation£50,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust£20,000
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)£15,650
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£15,650 04/04/2023
Restricted funding to distribute cash grants to individuals
Greater London Authority - Turn2us
£157,309 01/10/2022
To redevelop its existing grant search tool for London, enabling Londoners to identify local and national grants they are eligible for and translate online content.
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - Turn2Us - Co-Production Development March 2021
£5,000 25/03/2021
To support the key Co-Production staff role and activities.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Data Collective Project
£20,000 21/10/2020
5
Develop and improve data collaboration to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on those on low incomes and to demonstrate how charities can use “big data”.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Elizabeth Finn Charity
£500 04/05/2020
For Coronavirus fund - From Anthony Davis
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£50,000 01/05/2020
6
Provision of small loans and advice to vulnerable people during covid-19
Dulverton Trust - Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire 2019
£4,000 28/02/2019
Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire 2019
Comic Relief - Turn2us Connect – matching Turn2us users with our volunteers for guidance through the benefits app
£42,000 16/05/2018
9
The Turn2us Benefits Calculator has been used 3.3 million times so far in 2017, but half of the people that are given advice do not go on to make a claim due to barriers such as confusion, stress, ....more
Dulverton Trust - Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire 2017
£2,500 22/02/2017
Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire 2017
Dulverton Trust - Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire 2016
£4,000 11/02/2016
Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire 2016
Comic Relief - Strengthening income maximisation and financial capability support in North East England
£55,485 25/11/2015
36
People living in the North East of England face significant levels of poverty with Durham, Newcastle and Sunderland all being in the top 10% of deprived areas of England. The Turn 2 Us tool provides ....more
Dulverton Trust - Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire
£5,000 04/02/2015
Tackling Poverty in Gloucestershire
Dulverton Trust - Gloucestershire Anti-Poverty Initiative
£3,500 25/02/2014
Gloucestershire Anti-Poverty Initiative
Dulverton Trust - work with beneficiaries living in Gloucestershire
£5,000 27/02/2013
work with beneficiaries living in Gloucestershire
Dulverton Trust - extended work with beneficiaries living in Gloucestershire
£2,500 13/06/2012
extended work with beneficiaries living in Gloucestershire
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-62
  • JENNY OKLIKAH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity Director (Exec)
  • KAVEED ALI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/04/1963, number: 207812
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/01/1953, number: 00515297
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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
20 returns made; AR13: 1 days late, AR12: 131 days late, AR11: 155 days late, AR08: 35 days late, AR07: 213 days late, AR06: 578 days late, AR05: 945 days late, AR04: 1310 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from CHARITY SEARCH on 03/06/2019
  • Asset transfer in from HENRIETTA EMMELINE KNIGHT on 22/09/2020
  • Asset transfer in from THE RAYMOND COLMAN CHARITABLE TRUST on 14/05/2021
Main office

HYTHE HOUSE
200 SHEPHERDS BUSH ROAD
LONDON
W6 7NL

Objectives

TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, (BUT WITHOUT REGARD TO RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS), RESIDENTS OR NATIONALS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND:- (1) WHO ARE FROM A PROFESSIONAL OR SIMILAR BACKGROUND AND WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM OLD AGE, INFIRMITY, DISABLEMENT OR FINANCIAL NEED; OR (2) WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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