Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

ST HILDA'S EAST 

St Hilda's is a multi-purpose community centre running a number of projects for the local population including an Older People's Project, an advice service including Legal Advice Clinics, youth groups, Food Co-op project, Women's Project, mental health support, creche and under 5s facilities and others. It also runs an off-site day centre service targeted at Bangladeshi older people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 61 years
(126 years as a company)

www.sthildas.org.uk

mail@sthildas.org.uk

020 77398066

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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£1,448£1,556£-108£94£1,847£5354.15683
31/03/22£1,329£1,428£-98£113£1,965£6295.34867
31/03/21£1,462£1,359£103£96£2,053£6876.14820
31/03/20£1,890£1,954£-64£102£1,951£5363.335193
31/03/19£1,597£1,740£-143£77£2,017£5323.735256
31/03/18£1,391£1,512£-122£73£2,159£6445.1380
31/03/17£1,703£1,852£-149£54£2,276£7024.5540
31/03/16£1,765£1,834£-69£42£2,425£8085.3510
31/03/15£1,825£1,797£28£39£2,490£8495.7510
31/03/14£1,903£2,025£-122£39£2,456£7804.6530
31/03/13£1,942£1,923£19£39£2,574£9035.6510
31/03/12£1,926£1,911£15£39£2,556£8275.2510
31/03/11£1,915£1,929£-14£21£2,541£7744.8600
31/03/10£1,740£1,831£-91£25£2,554£7284.8600
31/03/09£1,871£1,898£-27£25£2,644£7764.9600
31/03/08£2,040£1,918£121£25£2,672£7995610
31/03/07£1,659£1,673£-14£27£2,550£6644.8510
31/03/06£1,978£1,528£450£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,358£1,294£65£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,348£1,294£54£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 29%
Reserves/Spending: 4.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 5.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 56 employees
  • 83 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Tower Hamlets,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£286,471
City Bridge Trust£131,600
Henry Smith Charity£89,400
DCMS£64,461
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Hilda's East Community Centre
£89,400 06/12/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Feeling Good Project' providing daily activity sessions designed to reduce isolation for over 50's in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
National Lottery Community Fund - Over 50’s Feeling Good!
£286,471 28/10/2022
The funding will support St Hilda’s East to deliver outreach support to older people in the borough of Tower Hamlets through a series of group sessions. The project aims to improve the health and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Hilda's Food Co-Op
£2,200 22/10/2022
We plan to deliver a weekly volunteer-led Food Co-op that provides cost-price fresh fruit and veg, increases healthy living awareness, creates volunteering opportunities and training for local people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 04/04/2022
St Hilda’s East Core Costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Hilda's East
£50,000 14/06/2021
£50,000 to St Hilda’s East towards its plans to develop an income generating community centre. The first £25,000 of the award to cover costs for external consultancy to analyse project viability ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£64,461 09/10/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Hilda's East
£81,600 26/09/2019
24
£81,600 over two further and final years (£40,200; £41,400) towards the costs of a 4 day a week Project Co-ordinator, 1 dpw Advice Worker, and associated running costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Over 60s 'Well Art!' Project
£9,071 22/03/2019
12
The project will deliver creative art sessions for elderly people. The aim is to increase wellbeing and reduce feelings of isolation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Hilda's East Community Centre
£9,432 19/11/2018
We need staff and a disabled access minibus to run ‘Space to Grow’, a year long programme of activities for 13-19s developing life skills.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Surjamuki Disabled Youth Project at St. Hilda's East
£29,850 30/07/2018
36
This project will provide a wide range of educational and recreational activities for disabled young people. These activities will develop essential skills, positively empower and build positive ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to St Hilda's East Community Centre
£6,800 09/05/2018
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Sport England - Over Fifties Flex
£8,025 26/02/2018
15
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Over Fifties Flex. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
DCMS - ALB-Over Fifties Flex
£8,025 26/02/2018
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Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 06/02/2018
Older People's Singing Group
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Hilida's East Community Centre
£5,661 29/11/2017
We want to run a Nature Play programme to encourage children to go outside, be physically active and discover their environment.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to St Hilda's East
£117,000 24/05/2016
36
£117,000 over three years (£39,000 pa) towards the costs of a 4 day a week Project Co-ordinator, 1 dpw Advice Worker, and associated running costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Hilda's East Community Centre
£84,300 04/12/2014
36
towards three years' salary of a Women's Project Worker to support Bangladeshi women to access employment, health and social opportunities in London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/10/1962, number: 212208
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/06/1897, number: 00052880
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

18 Club Row
LONDON
E2 7EY

Objectives

(I) THE RELIEF OF NEED WHICH ARISES AS A RESULT OF POVERTY, OLD AGE, DISABILITY OR ILLNESS;(II) TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;(III) IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THE WEAVERS WARD AND IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE IN NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF POVERTY, YOUTH, AGE. INFIRMITY, DISABLEMENT, OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCE WITHOUT REGARD TO AGE, GENDER, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, RELIGION OR DISABILITY TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY AND COUNTY OF LONDON AND ELSEWHERE IN ENGLAND AND WALES

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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