Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

NEWHAM COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAMME LIMITED 

Main area of activity is London Borough of Newham. Current activities include: medium level support for homeless 16-25 year olds; specialised support for homeless adults with alcohol and substance issues; training for disadvantaged students; crisis support for refugees; advocacy and advice for informal carers; children and young people's work; and operating community facilities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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: 46 years

www.renewalprogramme.org.uk

info@renewalprogramme.org.uk

02084716954

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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£1,735£1,701£34£1£923£7445.341135
31/03/22£1,886£1,798£87£0£889£4983.34182
31/03/21£1,707£1,641£65£0£802£6024.434118
31/03/20£1,655£1,628£27£11£737£6684.936121
31/03/19£1,552£1,519£32£1£710£6675.34248
31/03/18£1,514£1,541£-27£1£677£6575.1430
31/03/17£1,474£1,527£-53£2£704£6935.4490
31/03/16£1,746£1,896£-151£3£758£7354.6540
31/03/15£2,016£2,045£-29£19£928£2931.7310
31/03/14£2,286£2,442£-156£24£957£2881.4300
31/03/13£2,934£2,930£4£33£1,112£3741.5510
31/03/12£2,936£2,824£111£22£1,109£2301510
31/03/11£2,981£2,932£49£24£997£790.3560
31/03/10£3,307£3,120£187£50£948£-66-0.3590
31/03/09£2,826£2,936£-110£40£761£-256-1730
31/03/08£3,349£3,429£-79£39£872£-174-0.6690
31/03/07*£3,463£3,442£21£64£951£-96-0.3740
31/03/06*£2,816£3,294£-479£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£3,504£3,175£328£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£3,083£2,685£398£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 5.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 3.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Newham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 41 employees
  • 135 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
City Bridge Trust£316,500
Trust for London£263,669
DCMS£65,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£6,920
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Newham Community Renewal Programme
£112,932 22/06/2023
The funding is for salary costs for two part time roles, an Immigration Advisor and a Refugee and Migrant Support worker to support vulnerable and destitute migrants in Newham. These roles will ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to www.renewalprogramme.org.uk
£227,000 25/05/2023
£227,000 over five years (£50,000; £47,500; £45,000; £42,500; £42,000) towards Renewal Programme’s core costs.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Newham Community Renewal Programme
£2,866 22/10/2022
We'd like to build a communal living space and cover the cost of wellbeing focused activities for young residents (18-25) at our hostel in Newham. We'd also like to support other homelessness victims.
Trust for London - Newham Community Renewal Programme
£2,537 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.10.2019-8273
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Renewal Programme
£50,000 01/03/2021
0
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund Grant
£6,920 11/11/2020
5
To re-establish Chat Newham, a community support and listening line to help reduce isolation, loneliness and anxiety in the older population in Newham (although open to everyone)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£65,000 11/08/2020
"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
Trust for London - Newham Community Renewal Programme
£148,200 26/02/2020
36
The funding is to build on its successful project supporting destitute vulnerable migrants in Newham. Trained specialists, supported by volunteers, work holistically offering legal ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Renewal Programme
£39,500 30/10/2019
24
£39,500 (£19,750 x2) over two further and final years to meet the sessional staffing and running costs of providing introductory ESOL classes for women aged 60 years and over.
National Lottery Community Fund - Newham Community Renewal Programme Ltd
£264,000 23/11/2018
36
A programme of activity with and for carers which empowers them to become more resilient. It will be delivered through a range of training, mentoring, workshops and courses, which will practically ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Renewal Programme
£50,000 28/09/2018
24
ARRT (the two Rs represent Rosetta Arts and The Renewal Programme)
Trust for London - Newham Community Renewal Programme
£78,700 21/02/2018
24
The funding is for a project supporting destitute vulnerable migrants in Newham. Teams of volunteers and trained specialists will work holistically offering legal advice/representation on immigration ....more
Sport England - TIED – Fitness for Ladies
£4,830 04/01/2018
23
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled TIED – Fitness for Ladies. This project is a Exercise & ....more
DCMS - ALB-TIED ? Fitness for Ladies
£4,830 04/01/2018
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'TIED ? Fitness for Ladies'. This project is a Exercise & ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Renewal Programme
£59,300 28/01/2016
36
£59,300 over 3 years (£19,400; £19.800; £20,100) to meet the sessional staffing and running costs of providing introductory ESOL classes for women aged 60 years and over.
National Lottery Community Fund - Better Health for Carers
£287,424 12/08/2015
36
This project supports adult carers with their physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing. The project will be delivered at various venues, at times convenient to carers, providing activities ....more
London Catalyst - Renewal Refugee and Migrant Project (RAMP) - 5
£3,500 27/05/2015
Support for foodbank and other workshops that will enable clients to lead healthier lives
National Lottery Community Fund - Better Health for Carers Project
£234,601 17/05/2012
36
This project will improve the health and welfare of carers in Newham through a range of services including health workshops, providing practical skills such as safeguarding, first aid, back pain, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-68
  • ALEX SKOURTIS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Banking & Finance - Business Analyst
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/06/1978, number: 275796
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/08/1977, number: 01327924
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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; AR07: 38 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 60 days late,
Main office

395 HIGH STREET NORTH
LONDON
E12 6PG

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF GREATER LONDON WITH PREFERENCE BEING GIVEN TO THE LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF GREATER LONDON WITH PREFERENCE GIVEN TO LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM

Data Sources

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