Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 6
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Mainly male board: -1
    • Grant maker support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

    ASTON - MANSFIELD 

    Aston-Mansfield has been working in the heart of east London for over 130 years. We provide a wide range of community development support and activities in the London Borough of Newham directly delivering services to around 1000 people and 900 organisations each year.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • This charity has an endowment fund which generates most of its income
    • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • The Board is predominantly male
    Established: 60 years
    (127 years as a company)

    www.aston-mansfield.org.uk

    eileen.da-silva@aston-mansfield.org.uk

    02037408100

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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£1,613£1,744£-131£127£1,667£1771.25460
    31/03/22£1,619£1,613£6£119£1,799£14114445
    31/03/21£1,551£1,444£107£120£1,793£1651.44260
    31/03/20£1,283£1,542£-259£125£1,686£1070.83956
    31/03/19£1,540£1,655£-115£121£1,945£3322.44386
    31/03/18£1,700£1,606£94£130£2,060£4303.2410
    31/03/17£1,462£1,559£-97£78£1,966£3552.7470
    31/03/16£1,323£1,335£-12£78£2,063£3963.6510
    31/03/15£1,227£1,209£18£104£2,075£3703.7340
    31/03/14£1,226£1,305£-79£101£2,057£2922.7340
    31/03/13£1,291£1,365£-74£82£2,136£3042.7340
    31/03/12£1,417£1,511£-94£91£2,210£2972.4360
    31/03/11£1,569£1,488£81£87£2,304£2802.3390
    31/03/10£1,826£1,661£166£98£2,223£2501.8430
    31/03/09£1,599£1,592£7£110£2,057£1891.4350
    31/03/08£2,400£2,320£80£106£2,050£1540.8450
    31/03/07£2,389£2,423£-34£94£1,969£520.3530
    31/03/06£2,555£2,661£-105£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05*£2,315£2,379£-64£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£2,789£2,948£-158£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
    Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 10%
    Liabilities/Income: 12%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 11%
    Reserves/Spending: 1.2 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
    Quick Ratio: 0.7
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Newham,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • 54 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
    City Bridge Trust£143,100
    BBC Children in Need£80,000
    DCMS£63,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Aston-Mansfield
    £93,500 28/01/2021
    36
    £93,500 over two further and final years (£47,800; £45,700) towards the salaries of two part-time (3 dpw each) workers to provide capacity-building support to local groups; plus a contribution to ....more
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £3,000 09/10/2020
    NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Aston-Mansfield
    £49,600 11/09/2020
    towards the costs outlined in your application of a project making small local organisations more financially sustainable. The grant covers additional staff hours (£36,000) and cleaning (£4,600) ....more
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Aston Mansfield Charity
    £80,000 29/07/2020
    Covid19 - This project will offer 1-1 coaching, workshops and placements to excluded young people who have experienced increased unemployment/poverty as a result of COVID-19, to raise their ....more
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £60,000 23/07/2020
    "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
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Aston-Mansfield
    £144,000 27/07/2017
    36
    £144,000 over three years (£48,000; £47,000; £49,000) towards a 0.6FTE Project Manager, 0.4FTE Project worker, volunteer expenses and associated running costs. This is subject to the submission ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Youth4Youth
    £326,722 25/01/2017
    60
    This project will bring together young people and create a network that will empower them to lead on initiatives and issues that matter to them, helping them shape their own futures and create new ....more
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Aston-Mansfield
    £105,000 21/05/2015
    36
    over three years towards the start-up costs of the Newham Poverty Partnership's Community Buddies programme supporting isolated and vulnerable people and families in the London Borough of Newham ....more
    London Catalyst - Aston Mansfield - 1
    £13,000 20/08/2014
    Development Officer to establish a social supermarket and associated services
    National Lottery Community Fund - On the margins of health
    £10,000 03/11/2011
    12
    This is a project by a charity in Newham. The group will use funding to run health and art workshops for women. This will give advice and support to the beneficiaries and provide a comfortable ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (11)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split
    Based on 9/11 persons

    Age Range of Trustees: 36-83
    • REHAN AKHTAR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Technical Account Manager
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/11/1963, number: 220085
    • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/1896, number: 00048350
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Other Regulators
    • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
    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
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • 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; AR05: 37 days late,
    Main office

    DURNING HALL
    EARLHAM GROVE
    LONDON
    E7 9AB

    Objectives

    (A) TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.(B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN EAST LONDON AND ELSEWHERE (THE AREA OF BENEFIT).(C) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.(D) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO NEED THE FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.(E) TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.(F) TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECT.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    EAST LONDON AND ELSEWHERE

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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