Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

BARONS COURT PROJECT 

The Project provides services for people vulnerable through mental health problems, homelessness in Hammersmith and Fulham area. The principal activity of The Project is to run a Drop-In Day Center at its operational address and to provide practical, supportive and empowering services to vulnerable people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender 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
Established: 37 years

www.baronscourtproject.org

michael@baronscourtproject.org

02076035232

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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£438£431£7n/an/an/an/an/a75
31/03/22£448£431£17n/an/an/an/an/a63
31/03/21£443£413£30n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/20£312£277£34n/an/an/an/an/a85
31/03/19£249£246£3n/an/an/an/an/a45
31/03/18£492£238£254£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£218£181£37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£192£183£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£153£210£-58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£186£246£-60£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£235£236£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£238£229£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£264£259£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£260£248£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£247£216£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£227£235£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£227£235£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£221£230£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£219£225£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£202£218£-17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hammersmith And Fulham,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 75 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
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£80,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£70,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
DCMS£26,550
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£20,000
City Bridge Trust£19,876
The Fore£12,600
The London Community Foundation£10,620
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Garden of Hope
£5,000 11/11/2022
The funding will be used for the provision an updated outdoor green space for residents and local groups. The project aims to create a warm green outdoors environment to support the mental health of ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Barons Court Project Limited - 02/08/22
£3,000 01/09/2022
Core Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 18/02/2022
Enabling Change, Restoring Hope
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Barons Court Project
£70,000 01/07/2021
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We want to ensure that we have the capacity to help meet the growing demand for homelessness services and mental health support in our borough.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Barons Court Project - 01/03/21
£1,000 12/03/2021
Core Funding
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£26,550 03/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and ....more
The Fore - Grant to Barons Court Project
£12,600 01/12/2020
36
Baron's Court Project provide shower and laundry facilities, free clothes, toiletries, hot meals and one-to-one support, as well as yoga, arts and craft, music, cooking and life skills sessions to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Barons Court Project
£19,876 13/08/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application for re-equiping the day centre for people who are homeless or living with mental ill health and on low income
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£20,000 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
Hammersmith United Charities - To enable a project worker to maintain contact with clients experiencing homelessness during the COVID 19 lockdown.
£7,500 01/05/2020
Towards salary cost of Project Worker.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Barons Court Project
£7,950 29/04/2020
The funding is for the salary and on-costs associated with employing a Project Worker working from home for three months. Our Project Workers are doing the vital work of maintaining contact with and ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Barons Court Project
£2,670 23/04/2020
The funding is for 6 laptops and 4 phones with credit to enable our team to work from home, 10 basic phones with credit for guests without phones to allow us to stay in touch, 1 office chair to ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barons Court Project Ltd
£8,404 15/11/2019
We want to update and refurbish our Training & Employment, IT & Interview rooms with new carpets, storage, seating and soft furnishings.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Barons Court Project LTD
£80,000 18/07/2019
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Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barons Court Project Limited
£10,410 19/11/2018
We need carpet, curtains, chairs and cushions to refurbish the drop in centre, creating a comfortable communal space that feels like home.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 17/09/2018
Sustaining Barons Court Community
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Barons Court Project Limited
£108,100 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' salary of a Project Worker at an organisation providing services to people who are rough sleeping, at risk of homelessness or living with a mental illness in the London Borough ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barons Court Project Ltd
£7,754 04/08/2017
A refitted shower room means we can provide a place for homeless people to get clean, reducing infection & enabling us to work with them.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Barons Court Project
£32,600 28/01/2015
£32,600 for a third year’s funding of a Project Worker plus related running costs of the Drop-in service.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-59
  • ANDREW MAGOWAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: General Counsel And Company Secretary
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/01/1987, number: 296034
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/11/1985, number: 01963453
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Homes England
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 11 days late, AR08: 12 days late,
Main office

69 Talgarth Road
London
W14 9DD

Objectives

RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THOSE WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS, HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO ARE POOR.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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