Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

THE WOODLAND CENTRE TRUST 

Educational and recreational projects for young people that are disadvantaged and/ or have additional needs, help to increase confidence, skills levels which may lead to independant living and to find a meaningful career path.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 44 years

www.campmohawk.org.uk

info@campmohawk.org.uk

01189404045

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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£452£352£100n/an/an/an/an/a250
31/03/22£335£259£77n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21£283£192£92n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£288£224£64n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/19£170£201£-31n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£235£187£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£256£176£80£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£205£172£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£264£274£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£463£334£129£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£341£270£71£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£277£248£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£244£225£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£203£173£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£162£155£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£202£135£67£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£139£137£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£127£145£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£124£120£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£173£171£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Newham, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 250 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£232,369
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
Rothschild Foundation£30,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£29,700
Masonic Trust£15,000
True Colours Trust£10,000
DCMS£9,967
Wates Foundation£7,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Woodland Centre Trust (Camp Mohawk)
£2,700 30/11/2022
Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment of building for a charity supporting people with disabilties in Berkshire
Wates Foundation - Core Costs - AWF Sept 2022
£7,000 21/09/2022
Core costs - Camp Mohawk provides a variety of specially designed and adapted facilities and projects for children and young people with a range of mental and physical disabilities - as well as ....more
True Colours Trust - Towards its Family Support Project for children with SEND and their families
£5,000 14/06/2022
Towards its Family Support Project for children with SEND and their families
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Woodland Centre Trust (Camp Mohawk)
£27,000 24/05/2022
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting people with disabilties in Berkshire
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Camp Mohawk (The Woodland Centre Trust)
£30,000 12/02/2022
Family Support sessions - half or full day - at Camp Mohawk in 2022 which will benefit children with physical and cognitive special needs, their siblings and parents/carers
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 04/02/2022
Core Costs
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 10/11/2021
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Camp Mohawk Family Support Project
£232,369 10/09/2021
The funding will cover project costs for a Family Support project Camp Mohawk which provides a safe haven with indoor and outdoor facilities where children and young people with special needs and ....more
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Online support for children with special needs
£800 23/02/2021
Online social support groups, art and well being workshops 1:1s for children with special needs, siblings and parents/carers.
True Colours Trust - Making day centre COVID-secure for disabled children – COVID19 response
£5,000 06/10/2020
Making day centre COVID-secure for disabled children – COVID19 response
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,967 25/09/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 07/02/2020
Camp Mohawk Core Costs
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Camp Mohawk
£400 18/10/2019
As requested by the donor towards a a multi-functional day centre for children with special needs and their families
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Woodland Centre Trust
£91,449 28/02/2019
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This project will provide indoor and outdoor activities for children and young people with autism and aspergers syndrome. Children and young people will feel less isolated, develop social skills and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/11/1980, number: 278681
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints 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; AR15: 1 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR04: 33 days late,
Main office

Camp Mohawk
Highfield Lane
Crazies Hill
Wargrave
Reading
RG10 8PU

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE TRUST IS TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH EDUCATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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