Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

CAXTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT 

We are a large multi-purpose community centre in North London housing various projects: Under 5s Drop-In,London Capital Credit Union,Kurdish & Middle Eastern Women's Org,Octopus Community Network,Choices CIC,Elthorne Pride Big Local, Scarabeus Theatre Group. We run a number of health and educational activities and also hire office and hall space to external users for activities and functions.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined 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

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*£375£323£52n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/22£308£306£1n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/03/21£410£362£47n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/03/20£323£283£40n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/03/19£267£262£5n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/03/18£264£264£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£230£231£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£227£208£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£242£201£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£196£197£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£187£203£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£202£199£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£244£237£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£211£219£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£283£261£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£317£348£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£364£395£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£337£375£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£386£419£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£339£360£-21£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 62 years

http://www.caxtonhouse.org

admin@caxtonhouse.org

02072633151

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Islington,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 60 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
DCMS£98,725
The London Community Foundation£50,591
National Lottery Community Fund£39,980
Co-Operative Group£21,455
Garfield Weston Foundation£7,500
Sport England£6,912
City Bridge Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Sewing & Garment Construction Workshops
£10,000 23/06/2023
The funding will be used to run sewing and garment construction workshops for disadvantaged members of the community. The project aims to improve the participants life and employability skills as ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Caxton House Community Centre
£4,380 22/10/2022
We would like to run food-growing gardening sessions and cooking classes for groups and families. We will focus on waste-reducing recipes, cooking on a budget and storage tips for leftovers.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Recycle & Stitch Studio
£10,000 21/01/2022
The funding will be used to deliver two weekly sewing classes for young and older member members of the community. The project aims to reduce loneliness build better community relationships and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Caxton House Community Centre
£5,119 23/10/2021
We are redesigning our popular Friends and Fitness programme to address health and wellbeing issues and the new challenges we’re all facing during and following the Covid-19 crisis.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 20/08/2021
Capital work to improve energy efficiency
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£6,912 06/07/2021
1
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
National Lottery Community Fund - Health & Well-Being Crafts
£10,000 18/12/2020
11
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of arts and crafts activities for older people people with a disability and the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic community. The project aims to improve ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Caxton House Community Centre
£9,775 24/11/2020
5
This funding will support additional costs to extend the weekly befriending service we provide for residents. It will also allow us to increase the weekly crafts sessions we are delivering and offer ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£98,725 08/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Caxton House Community Centre
£40,816 30/04/2020
This will support up-front costs to enable us to adapt to a digital approach for delivering our services/activities and supporting staff with essential equipment/training needed to meet these ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Caxton House Settlement
£5,000 13/04/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Caxton House Community Centre
£11,957 15/11/2019
We want to run more free 'Lifestyle Tuesdays' sessions for over 50s, covering fitness, social time, arts and crafts, and an IT drop in.
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifestyle Tuesdays
£9,980 25/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to a programme of recreational and social activities that are designed to engage older people. The project aims to improve wellbeing and reduce isolation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Take Flight
£10,000 14/02/2018
12
The group will use the funding to deliver a programme of aerial and theatrical skills workshops for young people from communities experiencing disadvantage, refugees and migrants. Young people will ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/11/1962, number: 210270
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • 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; AR23: 5 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR13: 0 days late, AR06: 16 days late, AR05: 67 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

CAXTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT
129 ST. JOHN'S WAY
LONDON
N19 3RQ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ALL OR ANY PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY WHICH ARE NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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