Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

THE YOUNG FOUNDATION

Inequalities are widespread, complex and affect many areas of people's lives. We are a research and action based institute with a formidable track record of confronting inequality.We work across the UK and internationally to create insight and innovations which put people at the heart of social change. We do this through research, work with communities and social innovation.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£2,335£3,696£-1,361£0£3,711£3,0189.8360
31/12/22£2,808£2,941£-133£0£5,026£3,29813.5350
31/12/21£5,090£2,497£2,593£0£5,206£3,60317.3270
31/12/20£1,896£2,126£-230£0£2,613£1,5498.72951
31/12/19£1,815£2,022£-207£0£2,770£1,84210.93334
31/12/18£1,771£2,366£-595£0£3,359£2,17711310
31/12/17£2,407£3,212£-804£0£3,955£2,4079370
31/12/16£5,318£3,467£1,852£0£4,759£3,06410.6340
31/12/15£3,812£4,051£-239£0£2,907£1,7335.1410
31/12/14£3,558£4,356£-797£13£3,133£2,6407.3420
31/12/13£2,742£3,937£-1,195£13£3,852£3,71211.3380
31/12/12£5,105£5,137£-32£5£4,865£4,2169.9540
31/12/11*£5,246£5,118£128£12£5,041£4,45410.4640
31/12/10£4,845£5,405£-560£20£4,999£3,9738.8640
31/12/09*£4,537£4,490£46£18£5,467£3,82110.2550
31/12/08£3,760£3,074£687£18£5,420£3,69014.4480
31/12/07£2,489£1,750£739£16£5,179£4,17028.6300
31/12/06£1,240£1,142£98n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£3,073£597£2,477n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 9.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 47 years

www.youngfoundation.org

reception@youngfoundation.org

02089806263

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Medical research
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides other finance
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Nuffield Foundation£250,521
Power to Change£199,000
DCMS£196,330
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£60,000
Spirit of 2012£49,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Spirit of 2012 - Songs of Endurance and Inclusion
£49,500 16/02/2023
This project seeks to explore how Eurovision could be used to create local events around the country. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
Power to Change - Twine Benchmark
£9,000 04/05/2022
Grant to Twine Benchmark
Trust for London - Young Foundation
£7,500 05/04/2022
The funding is to enable us to focus on Stronger Voices paying firstly for training in all aspects of voice: speaking with confidence, campaigning, advocacy, increasing the voice of stakeholders in developing policy, dealing with difficult ....more
Nuffield Foundation - Grant to Young Foundation
£250,521 02/07/2021
17
Towards Understanding family and community vulnerabilities in transition to net zero
Power to Change - ICS Research Legacy Transfer Management Grant
£100,000 31/05/2021
Grant to ICS Research Legacy Transfer Management Grant
Power to Change - ICS Strategic Partnership Grant
£90,000 14/04/2021
Grant to ICS Strategic Partnership Grant
DCMS - IEP & Young Foundation BOOST programme for Digital Inclusion
£196,330 01/04/2020
The Cabinet Office has awarded a grant of £390,000 to the Young Foundation to design and deliver BOOST, a scale up programme that supports the growth of social innovators with proven solutions to social challenges. This business case requests ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - A national network of peer researchers
£60,000 27/02/2020
The Young Foundation is a UKRI accredited Independent Research Organisation, social investor and community development practitioner, with the mission to develop better connected and more sustainable communities across the UK. This grant supports the ....more
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Young Foundation
£19,356 09/12/2019
to work with Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) to develop a 'Sharing Accelerator' that would support the Co-Creating Change (CCC) practitioners with scaling, growth and replication of their co-created arts projects.
Cabinet Office - Boost - The Inclusive Economy Partnership's Scale Up Programme
£390,000 15/10/2019
To support the scaling needs of social innovators we identified in Phase 1 of the Inclusive Economy Partnership who are tackling financial inclusion and capability, transitions to work for young people and mental health (specific objectives for each ....more
Sport England - Summer 2019 Activities
£5,690 20/09/2019
3
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Summer 2019 Activities. This project is a Association Football project, with a focus on beneficiaries from a BAME background.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Making the Case for End User Voice in Social Investment
£10,000 23/07/2019
5
To engage end user beneficiary perspectives in social investment
Friends Provident Foundation - The Young Foundation - Centre for Community Studies
£125,000 12/03/2019
The Centre of Community Studies is an ambitious, long-term initiative to co-ordinate a more responsive, and impactful research and action agenda for supporting strong and connected communities and supporting how communities respond and adapt to the ....more
Power to Change - Young Foundation
£250,000 18/12/2018
18
Grant to Young Foundation
Indigo Trust - Patchwork Philanthropy Research
£10,000 14/12/2018
To expand on earlier research - Community & Places Insights.
Indigo Trust - Data-driven insights into Funding Communities and Places
£5,000 20/03/2018
To research the relationship between community characteristics and trust/foundation funding for communities using amongst other sources 360 Giving data.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - AGENDA
£247,272 15/01/2018
36
Core funding for AGENDA
Lankelly Chase Foundation - AGENDA
£20,000 15/05/2017
6
Scoping work with AGENDA, part of the result of which will include a publishable paper reviewing gendered approaches to place-based work
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Bright futures: reinventing European industrial towns and challenging dominant post-industrial discourses
£94,217 01/04/2017
To support high quality research
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Young Foundation
£15,776 05/05/2016
3
Towards the cost of a feasibility study for The Good Diner, a proposed social enterprise that would provide nutritious meals in disadvantaged communities from school premises.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Young Foundation - Amplify NI
£1,060,000 07/09/2015
48
The Young Foundation - Amplify NI
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Gender Futures stage 2
£29,000 03/08/2015
6
To continue the Gender Futures programme, a strategic initiative aimed at stimulating innovation in the gender sector.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - AGENDA: for women and girls
£90,000 26/06/2015
35
To cover the running costs of the AGENDA Alliance, which the Young Foundation is hosting.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Young Foundation
£30,000 27/10/2014
Towards Gender Futures, a project which aims to reframe work tackling gender discrimination as social innovation in order to encourage new methods, strengthen practice and access more funding support for this area.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Gender Futures: Innovating Equality
£30,000 04/07/2014
Gender Futures: Innovating Equality
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Insight
£10,500 03/04/2014
To support the team at Real Insight to develop their plans, in particular to design an organisational structure and business model for their work to build the voice, power and ownership of people with lived experience in the design and delivery of ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Young Foundation
£191,256 12/12/2013
Towards the incubation of 60 early-stage education social ventures, enabling disadvantaged young people to raise their educational attainment.
Nesta - AC00293
£28,394 07/03/2013
Innovation in Giving programme grant to The Young Foundation Grant Ref AC00293
National Lottery Community Fund - Better By Design BIG001-0310
£900,000 30/01/2013
37
This is not a funding request this is an arrangement.
National Lottery Community Fund - Care4Care
£184,026 24/04/2012
12
A project to engage 500 neighbourhood volunteers of all age groups to contribute their time and skills support for over 600 older people across the Isle of Wight. Each volunteer will earn care time credits in exchange for carrying out a variety of ....more
Nesta - AC00223
£30,000 07/03/2012
Innovation in Giving programme grant to The Young Foundation Grant Ref AC00223
Nesta - AC00170
£200,000 24/10/2011
Social Venture Intermediary Fund programme grant to The Young Foundation Grant Ref AC00170
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Local Activism
£822,508 26/01/2011
24
3 organisations in the field of community organising will receive tailored business development support to enable them to sustainably scale up their delivery model in 6 disadvantaged communities. The project will also develop & test a series of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-75
  • CHRISTOPHER GEOFFREY DOBSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee
  • EDMUND ADAMS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee
  • JONATHAN MARK SOBCZYK BODDINGTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ceo/ Director
  • KATE CATHERINE HAINSWORTH-STAPLES Appointed: 2022
  • KAVYA MENON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Trustee
  • KERSTEN ENGLAND Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • MICHAEL OMONIYI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee
  • OLUWATOSIN ADEGUN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Trustee
  • PAMELA JANICE WARHURST Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Trustee
  • RIZWANA SHAHEEN HAMID Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee
  • STEPHEN MELVYN EDWARD JACOBS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Local Government Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/11/1977, number: 274345
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/06/1977, number: 01319183
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR11: 1 days late, AR09: 4 days late,
Main office

TOYNBEE HALL
28 COMMERCIAL STREET
LONDON
E1 6LS

Objectives

TO UNDERTAKE CHARITABLE PURPOSES AMONGST PERSONS IN NEED OF SERVICE AND SUPPORT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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