Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

FRENFORD YOUTH CLUB 

THE CLUB PROVIDES A RANGE OF SERVICES, WHICH TARGETS THE MOST VULNERABLE, DISADVANTAGED AND DISAFFECTED. WE AIM TO HELP THESE YOUNG PEOPLE TO GROW, DEVELOP AND THRIVE BY OFFERING THEM APPROPRIATE SUPPORT, OPPORTUNITIES AND CHOICES. OUR WORK ALSO ENCOMPASSES CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL SHOOLS, FAMILY GROUPS, COMMUNITY GROUPS.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely male

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£958£1,042£-84£47£1,593£7238.31780
31/03/22£1,017£833£184£0£1,677£48471420
31/03/21£1,556£542£1,014£33£1,493£4139.1920
31/03/20£589£1,080£-492£28£479£2172.41115
31/03/19£568£580£-12£19£971£2555.315100
31/03/18*£495£537£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£493£528£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£492£493£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£441£471£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£480£411£69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£364£324£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£386£286£100£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£303£228£75£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£178£204£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£202£198£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£185£204£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£216£169£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£175£203£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£165£164£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£103£135£-32£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 45%
Reserves/Spending: 8.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 9.7
Asset Split ?
Established: 49 years

www.frenfordclubs.org

info@frenfordclubs.org

020 85180992

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Essex, Redbridge,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 17 employees
  • 80 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£277,020
Greater London Authority£149,830
The Clothworkers Foundation£31,800
The London Community Foundation£24,770
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH - Summer and additional Holiday Programming
£9,700 28/07/2023
The funding will be used to deliver additional sports and mentoring activities for young people aged 11-18. The project aims to provide positive diversionary activities to help young people and ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Frenford Clubs
£31,800 02/02/2022
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in London
National Lottery Community Fund - Frenford Clubs Volunteer Qualifications
£10,000 25/06/2021
The funding will be used to qualify volunteers to lead existing sports sessions. The project aims to enhance and strengthen the capabilities of volunteers whilst developing health and wellbeing for ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Frenford Clubs
£10,000 04/12/2020
5
We make a final request for support with food and essential supplies costs. Funding will see our food bank remain a place of support through to May 2021, when we hope there will be less of a demand. ....more
Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund Frenford Clubs 2020
£6,600 30/06/2020
To cover lost income
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£8,000 27/05/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project is a Sport participation and capacity building project, with ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Frenford Clubs
£10,000 22/05/2020
We kindly request funding support for food parcels and essential items for vulnerable people. Mutual Aid Redbridge are currently delivering 100 food parcels a week to vulnerable people throughout the ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Frenford Clubs
£4,770 14/04/2020
The funding is to support the most vulnerable people we know and their families, by helping them with food pick up and deliveries as well as providing emergency parcels of supplies for them to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - YIF continuation funding
£257,320 31/01/2020
23
The project will use the funding to provide open access youth activities, including music, football, dance, wheelchair basketball, computer literacy, ESOL classes and cricket, to young people in ....more
Greater London Authority - Frenford Clubs
£149,830 01/01/2020
Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£53,010 01/04/2019
.
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£53,010 01/04/2019
.
Sport England - Frenford 55+ Daytime Sport Sessions
£3,380 08/01/2019
23
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Frenford 55+ Daytime Sport Sessions. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on older ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Frenford Clubs Youth Mentoring Pilot
£10,000 20/07/2018
12
The funding is for the appointment of a youth worker to run a yearlong programme of after school sessions. The project aims to support young people and address the issues affecting them.
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£53,010 15/05/2017
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DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£53,010 15/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£53,010 15/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£39,758 15/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£39,758 15/05/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
London Marathon Charitable Trust - 11 a side Artificial Football Pitch Project
£150,000 11/10/2016
Towards the development of a full size and floodlit 3G Artificial Turf Pitch (ATP) at Frenford Clubs in Redbridge, which will allow the club to expand its existing offer to support more people with ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Frenford Clubs
£54,000 12/03/2015
36
£54,000 over three years (£22,000; £18,000; £14,000) towards the salary of a Disability Activity Development Coordinator and related running costs to increase disabled people’s participation in ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Frenford Youth Club
£19,200 28/03/2014
The charity offers a range of sports facilities to local people. Its targeted employment support for NEET young people will give them the skills and confidence and access to job search to find and ....more
Sport England - Wheelchair Basketball Get Equipped
£9,950 25/02/2014
Funding under Sport England's Get Equipped funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Wheelchair Basketball Get Equipped'. This project is a Basketball project, with a focus on beneficiaries ....more
Sport England - Female Sport Programme
£6,056 17/12/2013
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Female Sport Programme'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
National Lottery Community Fund - Frenford Clubs Volunteer Training Skills Development
£10,000 29/09/2011
12
This is a project by a charity in Redbridge. The group will use funding to provide a volunteer training programme for young people, including emergency life support, first aid, youth and community ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/10/1975, number: 270142
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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; AR18: 14 days late, AR13: 0 days late, AR12: 36 days late, AR06: 4 days late,
Main office

JACK CARTER CENTRE
THE DRIVE
ILFORD
ESSEX
IG1 3PS

Objectives

FOR THE PURPOSES OF HELPING AND EDUCATING BOYS AND GIRLS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF REDBRIDGE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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