Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 14

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 21

THE HOXTON TRUST

1. Delivering 2 weekly free legal advice sessions at The Hoxton Trust offices, Hoxton St2. Delivering 3 weekly free legal advice sessions in GP surgeries in Hackney3. The management of The Hoxton Trust Community Garden for the whole community.4.Management of volunteers to facilitate points 1-3.5. The facilitation of the activities of Hoxton Street Business Guild (currently lapsed

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
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:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 40 years

www.hoxtontrust.org

reception@hoxtontrust.org

02077291480

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£189	£205	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	350
31/03/22		£160	£150	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	320
31/03/21		£161	£148	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/20		£117	£123	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/19		£106	£127	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
31/03/18		£87	£113	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£122	£133	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£171	£182	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£202	£198	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£173	£170	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£173	£175	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£145	£159	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£149	£152	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£125	£166	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£143	£148	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£125	£169	£-44	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£189	£208	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£246	£192	£54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£218	£199	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£139	£145	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Hackney,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
350 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	£86,750
Hackney CVS	£54,561
DCMS	£12,500
National Lottery Community Fund	£8,190
The Foyle Foundation	£8,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving and LBH Cost of Living
£5,061	09/11/2023	Providing Aldi food vouchers for those most in need.
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving and LBH Cost of Living
£6,000	08/12/2022	to provide families with Aldi food vouchers.
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving Better Mental Health
£43,500	09/09/2022	A high profile organic food growing initiative in The Hoxton Trust Community Garden, providing calm, supportive companionship and learning to improve the mental health of Hackney residents.
National Lottery Community Fund - Holidays in Hoxton
£8,190	19/11/2021	The funding will be used to employ a weekend activities coordinator. The project aims to offer events for local children and families enabling them to improve their wellbeing and social ties and ....more The funding will be used to employ a weekend activities coordinator. The project aims to offer events for local children and families enabling them to improve their wellbeing and social ties and address the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to THE HOXTON TRUST
£73,000	09/06/2021 36	£73,000 over three years (£11,500; £30,500; £31,000) towards the salaries and on-costs of two part-time legal advisers providing free advice.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£8,000	24/11/2020	towards core costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£12,500	09/09/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
City Bridge Trust - Grant to THE HOXTON TRUST
£13,750	11/06/2020	£13,750.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
Trust for London - The Hoxton Trust
£36,000	20/02/2019 36	The funding is to provide free advice from trained advisors to the most vulnerable residents of Hackney who are economically and socially disadvantaged.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to HOXTON TRUST
£6,200	04/02/2019	refurbishment and installation of new phone lines to a building for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Hoxton
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hoxton Trust
£25,000	29/10/2012	the salary and on costs of a part time Advice Worker and core costs

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 20-76

BROGAN MCPHERSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Development

DR MARIA WAY, Occupation: Music & Arts Development Manager

KAM ADAMS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Councillor

KIMSON ALEXANDER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Project Manager

RUTH LOMAX Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director Of Communications

SHARON MEAGER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

SUDENAZ TOP Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Student

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/05/1984, number: 289423
Registered at Companies House on 19/08/1982, number: 01659324

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Financial Conduct Authority

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; AR11: 1 days late, AR07: 36 days late, AR06: 43 days late, AR05: 396 days late, AR04: 19 days late,

Main office

HOXTON TRUST LTD
154-156 HOXTON STREET
LONDON
N1 6SH

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING;(1) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TOPERSONS WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF HORTICULTURE AND IN THE GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF HOXTON.(3) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF HOXTON/SHOREDITCH IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP TO MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SOCIETY(4) THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL ANDECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR IN HOXTON IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY)(5) SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUST, SUBJECT TO PRIORWRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND & WALES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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