Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 4

THE SHERIFFS' AND RECORDERS' FUND

Makes grants to ex-offenders for clothing, household furnishings, training courses and tools of trade.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 60 years

www.sr-fund.org

srfundsec@yahoo.com

02071922734

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/03/23	£298	£320	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	£284	£250	£34	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21	£212	£229	£-17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20	£310	£308	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19	£368	£378	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18	£242	£444	£-202	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17	£309	£380	£-71	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16	£405	£265	£140	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/15	£342	£289	£53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/14	£218	£233	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/13	£245	£222	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/12	£377	£202	£175	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/11	£179	£175	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/10	£165	£179	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/09	£382	£217	£165	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/08	£197	£159	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/07	£113	£155	£-42	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/06	£119	£154	£-34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05	£241	£139	£102	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04	£103	£109	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

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
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to The Sheriffs ' and Recorders ' Fund
£30,000	14/09/2023	Towards grants for individuals in 2023
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund
£10,000	30/03/2022	towards individual grants in 2022
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund
£10,000	22/02/2021	towards individual grants in 2021
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund
£10,000	04/02/2020	Individual grants in 2018
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund
£10,000	07/02/2019	Individual grants in 2018
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund
£5,000	08/02/2018	Towards making individual grants in 2018

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Gender Split

ALASTAIR COLLETT LLB Appointed: 2013, Other trusteeships: THE CITY CHARITY TRUST, TRURO FUND, THE GEORGE DREXLER FOUNDATION, THE LORD MAYOR'S 800TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS TRUST, THE JOSEPH AND LILIAN SULLY FOUNDATION, THE BLYTH WATSON CHARITABLE TRUST, THE PEARSON-YOUNG MEMORIAL TRUST, THE MACLEOD FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST,

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS

DAVID LAWRENCE BIDDLE, Other trusteeship: MORLEY TRUST,

JAMES HARMAN

LADY HILARY ANN RUSSELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director, Other trusteeship: BEST BEGINNINGS,

WILLIAM MAKOWER Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeships: THE PENELOPE AND OLIVER MAKOWER 1974 CHARITABLE TRUST, THE NATIONAL FUNDING SCHEME,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/01/1964, number: 221927

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
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

Central Criminal Court
Old Bailey
LONDON
EC4M 7EH

Objectives

(A) TO GIVE, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE CHARITY, ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS ON THEIR DISCHARGE FROM PRISON, AND DURING THEIR IMPRISONMENT TEMPORARY RELIEF TO THEIR FAMILIES IF IN DISTRESS, PROVIDED THAT SUCH FAMILIES ARE RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF LONDON OR IN THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT. (B) TO MAKE SUCH CONTRIBUTIONS AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE UPON FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF THE WORK OF THE PROBATION OFFICERS HAVING RESPONSIBILITY FOR PERSONS RESIDING IN THE CITY OF LONDON OR IN THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT AND FOR THE WORK OF THE CHAPLAINS OF THE METROPOLITAN PRISIONS; (C) TO GIVE ASSISTANCE TO ORGANISATIONS OR PERSONS WITHIN THE CITY OF LONDON OR WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT CONCERNED WITH THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS RESIDING IN THESE AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE AREA

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