Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

THE ELFRIDA SOCIETY 

Supporting people with learning disabilities and/or learning difficulties (LDD) to live happy, independent lives and providing opportunities for them to have their voice heard. Key to this are our specialist advocacy, sport activities and user-led consultation and quality monitoring service offer to empower people with LDD and ensure they can access the same opportunities as everyone else.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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£316£371£-56n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£267£404£-137n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£324£343£-18n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20*£287£416£-129n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/19£451£586£-135n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/18£532£602£-70£0£1,643£1,59031.7150
31/03/17£716£747£-31£0£1,713£1,64326.4200
31/03/16£694£748£-54£0£1,744£1,66926.8190
31/03/15£777£803£-27£10£736£6609.9210
31/03/14£785£782£3£10£763£69010.6220
31/03/13£651£713£-62£10£760£69211.7200
31/03/12£879£877£3£10£822£75410.3250
31/03/11£1,084£1,116£-32£10£819£7508.1310
31/03/10£1,124£1,111£13£11£851£7668.3330
31/03/09£1,050£1,047£3£0£838£7558.7340
31/03/08£1,059£1,049£11£0£835£7168.2340
31/03/07£1,268£1,017£252£41£825£7208.5100
31/03/06£1,272£1,425£-153£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,304£1,301£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,278£1,368£-90£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 21%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Established: 43 years

www.elfrida.com

dolly.galvis@elfrida.com

02073597443

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Buckinghamshire, Durham, Leeds City, Liverpool City, Nottingham City, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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
DCMS£60,002
Cripplegate Foundation£20,807
Cloudesley£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,580
Sport England£17,434
CAF£10,000
London Catalyst£5,649
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
London Catalyst - The Elfrida Society - 3
£5,649 19/07/2023
Partners for Health - LDD Healthcare Access Liaison Project
Cloudesley - Grant to The Elfrida Society
£10,000 21/02/2023
LD Access to Health
Sport England - Jubilee Fund -Elfrida Learning Disability Exercise & Fitness
£8,334 13/10/2022
This 36 week project will deliver a weekly exercise and fitness programme for disabled adults from the local area. The programme will introduce the individuals to activities such as Aerobics, Dance ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Active Tuesday's
£9,640 05/08/2022
The funding will be used to deliver activity-based sessions for people aged 18+ with learning disabilities. The project aims to help people with learning disabilities to live happier healthier more ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Elfrida Society
£807 02/09/2021
Disability Fund
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£9,100 24/05/2021
6
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to The Elfrida Society
£10,000 23/02/2021
Health advocacy for people with learning disabilities
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Elfrida Society
£10,000 28/01/2021
Peer Support Group for Parents with Learning Disabilities - LDs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£60,002 02/09/2020
"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
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Elfrida Society
£10,000 14/05/2020
Digital Inclusion
CAF - Grant to The Elfrida Society
£10,000 28/04/2020
3
Grant to The Elfrida Society to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting People with Learning Disabilities through Active Recreation
£9,940 25/02/2020
10
The funding will be used to deliver activity-based sessions for people living with the effect of learning disabilities. The project aims to improve the health and well-being of participants.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Elfrida Society
£95,134 27/08/2014
Towards work to improve the quality and supply of support to parents with learning difficulties to reduce the number of their children going into care.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Elfrida Society
£32,600 26/04/2013
The Elfrida Society in Islington supports people with learning disabilities with a range of services to help them manage as much of their lives as they want and feel able to do. This funding is ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Health Facilitation Project
£328,648 13/03/2013
48
This is the continuation and expansion of existing services provided by The Elfrida Society for people in Islington. The aim of the project is to address health inequalities faced by adults with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Sport and Physical Activity Project
£408,741 06/12/2010
60
This project supports people with learning difficulties within the London Borough of Islington to become healthier and more physically active, as well as developing new social networks and gaining ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 37-66
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/07/1981, number: 282716
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/05/1981, number: 01559198
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
  • 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; AR20: 9 days late,
Main office

ELFRIDA SOCIETY
34 ISLINGTON PARK STREET
LONDON
N1 1PX

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE WELFARE, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS SO AS TO ENSURE THAT SO FAR AS POSSIBLE THEY MAY DEVELOP AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR DISABILITIES MAY BE RELIEVED. 2) TO PROVIDE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION OF BENEFICIARIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR MENTAL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. 3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS AMONG BENEFICIARIES AND THEIR FAMILIES

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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