Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

SHARE COMMUNITY LIMITED 

Share provides vocational training, education, and opportunities for personal development to disabled people - especially those with learning disabilities, who may also have autism - and those facing health related barriers to independence and employment. We have 2 social enterprises offering catering and gardening services. Based in Wandsworth, we have no geographical boundaries.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually 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
Established: 51 years

www.sharecommunity.org.uk

info@sharecommunity.org.uk

02079242949

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UN SDGs
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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£1,592£22£28£1,440£1,42810.85079
31/03/22£1,371£1,283£88£13£1,419£1,41613.34265
31/03/21£1,404£1,256£148£31£1,331£1,32812.73868
31/03/20£1,256£1,152£104£28£1,183£1,18312.33781
31/03/19£1,185£1,121£63£30£1,079£1,07911.53267
31/03/18£1,091£1,016£75£42£1,015£1,01512310
31/03/17£973£934£39£54£940£93612290
31/03/16£952£819£134£41£902£89713.2280
31/03/15£937£744£193£80£768£76312.3180
31/03/14£691£689£2£75£575£57510160
31/03/13£702£691£11£71£573£57310160
31/03/12£881£773£108£111£562£4026.2180
31/03/11£902£866£36£140£454£3304.6200
31/03/10£940£904£36£89£419£2913.9190
31/03/09£987£965£22£63£383£2152.7200
31/03/08£1,071£1,101£-29£99£361£1802230
31/03/07£1,071£1,125£-54£166£390£2002.1190
31/03/06*£939£1,042£-103£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£853£796£57£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£611£662£-51£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 37%
Liabilities/Income: 53%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 10.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 50 employees
  • 79 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
National Lottery Community Fund£178,000
City Bridge Trust£146,111
The London Community Foundation£47,393
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
DCMS£40,000
Wolfson Foundation£35,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Share Community
£1,709 21/10/2023
We aim to pay for more trips out for our community-based projects, taking disabled people out into the community, to learn essential life skills, feel less lonely, and have a social life.
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing cooking skills of disabled adults during the cost-of-living crisis
£9,950 14/10/2022
The funding will be used to run a series of cooking workshops to help young adults with learning needs and autism to cook healthy cost-effective meals. The project aims to help the young adults ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£20,000 12/08/2022
Share Community - Emerging from the Pandemic
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Share Community
£3,074 23/10/2021
We will offer a programme of health and wellbeing activities for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism, so they can remain fit and healthy. It will be delivered remotely and in small groups.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£20,000 09/07/2021
Share Community - Emerging from the Pandemic
National Lottery Community Fund - Therapeutic Gardening Support for Disabled Adults in South London
£9,850 02/07/2021
The funding is being used to support disabled adults many of whom have learning disabilities and/or Autism using horticulture. The project will allow beneficiaries to grow vegetables learn about ....more
The Wimbledon Foundation - iPads for isolated adults with learning disabilities
£5,000 01/02/2021
iPads for isolated adults with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Share Community Ltd
£47,393 07/10/2020
The funding is for a befriending project through which we will reduce the isolation and loneliness faced by adults with learning disabilities and/or autism as a result of Covid-19, and improve their ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£40,000 05/08/2020
"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
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Share Community
£35,000 11/06/2020
Refurbishment of training kitchen and toilets
The Wimbledon Foundation - Community Meals Wandsworth
£5,000 03/06/2020
The project will provide freshly prepared nutritious meals delivered directly to the doors of vulnerable residents, with a focus on those with learning and physical disabilities, autism, mental ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Share Community
£15,611 08/05/2020
A grant of £15,611 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Liaison Coordinator
£148,800 02/03/2020
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This funding will go towards the salary of a new Family Liaison Coordinator role as well as associated costs of launching a new digital platform. This will help the group to continue to deliver a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - By Our Own Hand
£9,400 24/02/2020
11
The funding will be used to expand an existing textiles and crafts project. The project aims to bring people together and increase confidence and peer support networks amongst people who have ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Share Community
£15,000 07/11/2019
refurbishment of a training kitchen for a charity which works with people with disabilities in London
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Share Community
£130,500 26/09/2019
36
£130,500 over three years (£43,500, £43,500, £43,500) for two PT Job Coaches (14 hpw each) and associated project costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 16/04/2019
Health and Wellbeing for People with Learning Disabilities and Autism
National Lottery Community Fund - A New Database for Share
£9,735 18/01/2019
12
The project aims to enhance the group's activities which meet the needs of people who have disabilities.
Sport England - Wheels and Workouts
£9,915 28/11/2017
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Wheels and Workouts. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to SHARE Community Ltd
£90,000 08/06/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Go Anywhere, Do Anything' project, a user-led health and well-being project for people with learning disabilities and/or autism in London and the South East
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 05/05/2017
Pursuing Excellence
National Lottery Community Fund - The Happy Healthy Life Project
£9,729 25/04/2017
12
The funding will be used to run a series of activities for people with special additional needs that will focus on overcoming health and wellbeing issues including hygiene, sex and relationships, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Share Community
£14,659 09/11/2016
12
The charity is seeking to gain the NAS autism accreditation. It is requesting funding for a fixed term part time post to backfill two existing posts and give the charity the capacity to take forward ....more
London Catalyst - Share Community - 1
£9,000 21/05/2014
Share Catering: SE/work training for people with LD
City Bridge Trust - Grant to SHARE Community
£130,000 13/03/2014
36
£130,000 over three years (£43,000; £43,000; £44,000) towards the salaries of a Development Worker and the HR Administrator, plus running costs of the "Go anywhere, do anything" ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 27-62
  • KATIE THOMAS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Operations Manager
  • MAGUETTE KEBE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Client Servicing Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/02/1973, number: 264894
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/11/1972, number: 01081030
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
  • 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; AR06: 25 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

64 ALTENBURG GARDENS
LONDON
SW11 1JL

Objectives

TO ASSIST PERSONS OF ANY NATIONALITY WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ANY FORM OF DISABLEMENT. SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES FOR FULL DETAILS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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