Overall GiG Score: 22 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 14
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

UNITED RESPONSE 

United Response is a national charity that works with adults and young people with learning disabilities, mental health needs or physical disabilities. Our mission is to enable the people we support to take control of their lives. United Response is community based, working in many localities across England and Wales, providing everything from 24 hour care to a few hours of support a week.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 51 years

www.unitedresponse.org.uk

info@unitedresponse.org.uk

02082465200

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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£100,176£109,046£-8,870£233£20,714£18,6862.13,4430
31/03/22£96,970£96,688£282£246£28,970£27,5283.43,48920
31/03/21£96,901£95,175£1,726£216£28,688£26,9703.43,6320
31/03/20£94,209£92,885£1,324£244£26,962£25,6283.33,6240
31/03/19£93,842£96,523£-2,681£229£25,537£24,30434,0079
31/03/18£92,833£94,525£-1,692£98£28,120£26,9843.44,1260
31/03/17£93,703£91,521£2,182£164£30,063£29,0283.83,8770
31/03/16£79,077£79,192£-115£113£26,785£25,9863.93,5710
31/03/15£77,206£76,729£477£528£27,821£26,9684.22,6760
31/03/14£76,992£76,784£208£546£26,766£25,86742,6200
31/03/13£76,776£73,431£3,345£484£26,380£25,3474.12,5800
31/03/12£69,124£65,114£4,010£485£22,645£21,59942,3200
31/03/11£65,774£63,216£2,558£461£18,595£17,5633.32,0500
31/03/10£61,940£60,052£1,888£593£15,827£14,81431,9500
31/03/09£58,329£56,834£1,495£532£13,231£11,9742.51,7440
31/03/08£51,751£50,476£1,275£454£11,969£11,1252.61,6980
31/03/07£48,337£47,267£1,070£454£10,766£9,9162.51,5390
31/03/06£45,096£44,107£989£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£41,423£41,046£377£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£39,116£38,070£1,046£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 36%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 90%
Reserves/Spending: 2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 3,443 employees
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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
The Clothworkers Foundation£245,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£137,570
National Lottery Community Fund£60,000
Wolfson Foundation£43,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to United Response
£105,000 14/09/2023
Supporting the Small Sparks Programme which provides small grants to people with learning disabilities to engage with their communities
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to United Response
£37,651 01/08/2023
Our Life Stories, from Institution to Independent living.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to United Response
£99,919 08/02/2023
Boscawen Education Skills and Heritage Activities Project
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to United Response
£35,000 07/10/2022
Small Sparks Programme which provides small grants to people with learning disabilities to engage with their communities
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellbeing support for 165 disabled jobseekers
£10,000 30/08/2022
The funding will be used to employ a wellbeing coach. The project aims to support people with learning disabilities and autism with an employment service.
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust - Every Vote Counts
£30,000 24/06/2022
to deliver a non-partisan campaign to increase voter participation amongst young (16-25) autistic people who may or may not have a learning disability, and lower-income adults who have either a ....more
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - United in sport and physical activity
£9,981 16/06/2022
This project will be creating sport and exercise activities for a core group of 25 disabled people from socio-economically deprived areas, over a 12-month period. This project will be launched with a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating a Platinum Jubilee Legacy across our Disabled Communities
£50,000 03/03/2022
Six Platinum Jubilee celebration events will mark the kick-off of this project where people will come together for live music performances parades fancy dress and lunches. The events will be shaped ....more
DCMS - Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
£14,781 15/12/2021
National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to United Response
£43,000 09/12/2021
Training kitchen at Boscawen Farm in Truro, Cornwall for use by young people with disabilities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 12/11/2021
Potter's Den Bristol
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to United Response
£35,000 27/10/2021
Small Sparks Programme which provides small grants to people with learning disabilities to engage with their communities
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to United Response
£35,000 05/11/2020
Small Sparks Programme which provides small grants to people with learning disabilities to engage with their communities
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Pathways to Employment Year 2
£25,950 17/04/2020
Work with people with autism and adults with learning disabilities who are not known to adult social services and therefore fall between the gaps and cannot access support elsewhere to enable them to ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to United Response
£35,000 03/12/2019
Supporting the Small Sparks programme which provides small grants to people with learning disabilities to engage with their communities
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Pathways to Employment
£27,189 28/03/2019
We wish to provide a supported employment service for people with learning disabilities, autism/aspergers and/or mental health needs within Trafford whose needs are not being met by ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to United Response
£35,000 29/11/2018
Supporting the Small Sparks programme which provides small grants to people with learning disabilities to engage with their communities
National Lottery Community Fund - Entwined Education
£9,979 07/09/2018
12
This funding will be used to deliver animal care training courses for people living with disabilities. The project aims to remove barriers to employment.
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£66,238 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£17,994 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£14,247 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£12,920 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£13,744 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£37,740 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£38,696 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£39,811 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£40,077 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£40,352 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Nesta - AC00306
£90,148 11/02/2013
Innovation in Giving programme grant to United Response Grant Ref AC00306
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-68
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/10/1973, number: 265249
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/09/1973, number: 01133776
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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: 2 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from NORMANLEA FRIENDS OF ROC EXMOUTH on 07/02/2024
Main office

7th FLOOR - KNOLLYS HOUSE
17 ADDISCOMBE ROAD
CROYDON
LONDON
CR0 6SR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:(I) RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE IN CHARITABLE NEED, PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT ARE VULNERABLE DUE TO LEARNING DISABILITIES OR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HEALTH NEEDS OR THOSE IN POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO MEET THEIR NEEDS;(II) TO ADVANCE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN PARTICULAR FOR THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES OR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HEALTH NEEDS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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