Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

BRANDON CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 

Counselling and psychotherapy for 12 to 21 year olds.Contraception and sexual health for 12 to 21 year olds.Parenting groups for parents of teenagers (12 to 16) with challenging behaviour.Multisystemic therapy for families of persistent young offenders and young people with problem sexual behaviour (13 to 16).Information service on mental health and sexual health.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 40 years

www.brandon-centre.org.uk

ADMIN@BRANDONCENTRE.ORG.UK

02072674792

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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£1,978£1,852£126£48£793£3832.55370
31/03/22£1,861£1,797£64£37£667£29224715
31/03/21£1,705£1,780£-75£28£603£2371.64315
31/03/20£1,575£1,619£-44£20£678£3232.44025
31/03/19£1,582£1,673£-91£27£722£3742.74110
31/03/18£1,643£1,758£-115£8£812£4943.4520
31/03/17£1,664£1,672£-8£0£928£5744.1590
31/03/16£1,663£1,769£-106£10£936£6324.3600
31/03/15£1,729£1,767£-38£10£1,041£7104.8340
31/03/14£1,663£1,553£111£20£1,079£6975.4290
31/03/13£1,601£1,446£155£19£969£5434.5260
31/03/12£1,194£1,107£87£19£814£4124.5210
31/03/11£917£1,052£-136£16£727£3283.7190
31/03/10£1,094£920£174£16£863£2833.7190
31/03/09£861£844£17£14£689£2663.8230
31/03/08£880£825£54£13£672£2473.6230
31/03/07£841£814£28£13£618£5357.9240
31/03/06£878£820£58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£783£752£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£719£699£20£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 48%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 53 employees
  • 70 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
Cripplegate Foundation£209,500
Henry Smith Charity£159,300
John Lyon's Charity£93,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£37,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Brandon Centre
£11,000 26/07/2022
Developing a 'manual' for Systemic Integrative Treatment (SIT) and providing training to therapists
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brandon Centre
£159,300 10/02/2022
36
towards three years' salary of a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist at a project providing support for young people, aged 18-25, who have experienced a mental health crisis, in the London ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to Brandon Centre
£10,000 11/12/2021
Brandon Centre Mindfullness Garden Project
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to The Brandon Centre
£93,000 16/06/2021
Counsellor salary & Therapy within our Sexual Health service.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Brandon Centre
£25,000 10/06/2021
Arsenal Girls Wellbeing Project
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Brandon Centre
£80,700 10/06/2021
Brandon Connect
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Brandon Centre
£10,000 26/02/2021
Developing a 'manual' for Systemic Integrative Treatment (SIT) and providing training to therapists
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Brandon Centre
£9,918 01/06/2020
A grant of £9,918 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Brandon Centre
£16,500 27/02/2020
Developing a 'manual' for Systemic Integrative Treatment (SIT) and providing training to therapists
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£35,500 04/12/2019
Islington Counselling and Psychotherapy Service
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£30,000 25/11/2019
Brandon Arsenal Connect Extension for Girls
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£38,300 25/11/2019
Brandon Connect
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Brandon Centre
£4,160 15/11/2019
We want to fund more parenting courses, offering practical guidance to parents who are trying to manage difficult teenage behaviour.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£10,700 30/10/2018
Islington Youth Ambassadors
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Ambassadors
£9,980 05/10/2018
12
The projects aims to improve mental health support and awareness for young adults.
Cloudesley - Grant to The Brandon Centre
£10,000 19/09/2018
Psychological therapies for young people
Camden Giving - Ground up
£100,000 26/07/2018
24
The project builds the capacity of voluntary youth organisations in Camden to improve the mental health support for children and young people, with the support of Camden Clinical Commissioning Group ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£38,500 04/06/2018
Towards extension of Brandon Connect to work in partnership with Arsenal in the Community
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£46,570 25/01/2018
Towards the costs of Brandon Connect: empowering socially anxious young people disengaged from education, employment, training (EET) and social relationships
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Brandon Centre
£30,000 10/08/2017
36
Funding for a participatory photography project for 16-18 year olds experiencing mental health issues in Camden. The project aims to increase the young people's confidence, develop their life skills ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£73,098 24/01/2017
Towards the costs of outreach counselling for 16 to 21 year olds at the Drum youth hub
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Brandon Centre
£142,500 14/07/2016
36
£142,500 over three years (£47,000; £47,500; £48,000) towards 4.5 days per week of the f/t Centre Manager.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brandon Centre
£90,000 09/06/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of 'Brandon Prevent', an early intervention programme for young people in the London Borough of Camden involved in persistent antisocial behaviour
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Brandon Centre
£24,472 22/03/2016
Towards the costs of the Empowering Socially Anxious Adolescents project
Tudor Trust - Grant to Brandon Centre
£90,000 13/07/2015
36
over three years towards a pilot project providing one-to-one parenting support to the families of young people displaying disruptive behaviour in London
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Brandon Centre
£30,000 01/07/2012
The Brandon Centre helps young people aged 12-25 with psychological, medical, sexual and social problems based on a psychoanalytic understanding of adolescent development.
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Brandon Centre
£30,000 01/07/2011
The Brandon Centre helps young people aged 12-25 with psychological, medical, sexual and social problems based on a psychoanalytic understanding of adolescent development.
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Brandon Centre
£30,000 01/07/2010
The Brandon Centre helps young people aged 12-25 with psychological, medical, sexual and social problems based on a psychoanalytic understanding of adolescent development.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-63
  • LIPI BEGUM Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Coach & Lecturer
  • MARK BLAND Appointed: 2019, Occupation: No Current Occupation
  • NICOLA MOORE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Executive Director Of Quality And Governance
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/10/1984, number: 290118
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/07/1984, number: 01830241
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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
  • 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; all on time
Main office

BRANDON CENTRE
26 PRINCE OF WALES ROAD
LONDON
NW5 3LG

Objectives

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS OF YOUNG PERSONS (BEING PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 25) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. (2) THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SUFFERING CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL-HEALTH OF BY SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING A COUNSELLING, AND PRACTICAL ADVICE. (3) THE PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF THE SUFFERING CAUSED BY UNWANTED PREGNANCY BY EDUCATING YOUNG PERSONS IN MATTERS OF SEX AND CONTRACEPTION AND DEVELOPING AMONG THEM A RESPONSIBILITY IN REGARD TO SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

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