Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 14
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

MYTIME 

MYTIME Young Carers provides young carers with the support, opportunity and friendships that every child deserves. The charity operates in Dorset and across the UK. It provides young carers with the opportunity to take a break from their caring responsibilities through the MYTIME Making Memories programme and supports young carers in education through its Level Up and Employability programmes.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 37 years

https://www.mytimeyoungcarers.org

enquiries@mytimeyoungcarers.org

01202 710701

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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£712£694£19£12£215£540.917100
31/03/22£468£456£11n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£333£225£108n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£91£97£-6n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/19£90£91£-2n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£88£81£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£47£45£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£47£47£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£36£30£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£30£28£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£32£32£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£37£31£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£29£37£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£30£38£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£29£39£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£24£37£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£19£34£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£15£32£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£13£30£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£16£48£-33£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 25%
Reserves/Spending: 0.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bournemouth, Dorset, Poole,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 17 employees
  • 100 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • Stephen Lloyd Awards 2020 Winner
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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£193,000
BBC Children in Need£97,800
National Lottery Community Fund£91,656
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund£56,000
DCMS£31,501
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
The Fore£15,000
Masonic Trust£13,330
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - MYTIME's Level Up Programme
£100,000 24/08/2023
MYTIME supports young carers aged 5 to 18 and provides weekend breaks at their Retreat in Dorset, a Memory Making Programme and Schools Support Programme to improve educational attainment and affect ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to MYTime Young Carers (Working name) POOLE AND DORSET ADVENTURE CENTRE (Previous name)
£97,800 07/08/2023
This grant supports young carers and provides training to schools, to better support young carers through education, training, or employment. The outcomes will be increased mental wellbeing and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - MYTIME's Making Memories Programme
£70,000 02/06/2023
The project will deliver fun and enriching activity days for groups of young carers to enjoy together to provide a break from their caring responsibilities to experience new things and form a sense ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Online Youth Group
£9,816 03/03/2023
The funding will be used to continue to run an online youth group for young carers aged between 5 and 18. The project aims to provide young carers with the opportunity to take some time for ....more
Dorset Community Foundation - Youth Advisory Board
£7,500 15/02/2023
To develop a Youth Advisory Board to input into the development of the charity and its services, and offering leadership opportunities for young adult carers
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - MyTIME Young Carers Charity - Schools Programme
£3,000 18/01/2023
MYTime supports young carers aged 5 to 18 by providing retreats and programmes to improve educational attainment and affect a more equitable transition to adulthood. This grant will support MYTime to ....more
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£10,000 24/05/2022
towards core cost funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 11/03/2022
MYTIME Young Carers Core Cost Funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to MYTIME
£5,627 23/10/2021
We would like to host a series of 21 activity days for young carers aged 5-18, so they can relax away from their caring responsibilities, experience new things and feel part of a community.
Cheshire Community Foundation - MYTIME's Memory-Making Programme
£5,000 18/10/2021
At MYTIME, we provide young carers with the support, friendship and opportunities that every child deserves. Through our Memory-Making Programme, we organise fun and enriching activity days for young ....more
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - MYTIME Young Carers - 1
£56,000 14/10/2021
To enable us to recruit a Level Up Programme Co-Ordinator who will work to ensure that the young carers of Dorset receive everything they need in school to thrive, both in education and beyond.
Dorset Community Foundation - Memory Making Activity Days
£4,500 12/10/2021
To fund memory-making activity days supporting young carers
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - MYTIME Young Carers - 01/09/21
£1,250 21/09/2021
Core Funding
The Fore - Grant to MYTIME
£15,000 01/12/2020
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80% of young carers report that the role impacts their mental health, and 49% of carers aged 18-25 are unemployed. Many choose not to attend University because they cannot find care provision for ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - MyTIME Young Carers Charity - Schools Programme
£90,000 23/11/2020
MYTime supports young carers aged 5 to 18 by providing retreats and programmes to improve educational attainment and affect a more equitable transition to adulthood. This grant will support MYTime to ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Memory-Making Days
£5,186 04/11/2020
At MYTime, we provide young carers with the support, friendship and opportunities that every child deserves. Through our Memory-Making Programme, we organise fun and enriching activity days for young ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - MYTime Core Costs
£1,000 19/10/2020
Core costs
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£13,330 14/10/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 25/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£26,501 11/08/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to MYTime Young Carers Charity
£3,848 27/04/2020
3
Grant to MYTime Young Carers Charity to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - MYTime At Home
£4,040 24/04/2020
6
The funding will be used to offer a tailored online service for young carers aged 5-18 during the current coronavirus epidemic. A series of online events and activities will support young carers who ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Carers action project
£7,800 19/09/2019
12
Young Carers action project
National Lottery Community Fund - Because Young Carers Matter
£9,263 15/06/2018
12
The funding will provide young carers with a residential activity break. The aim is for young carers to support each other through making new friends and to have a break from their caring ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to MyTIME
£8,689 29/11/2017
There are 700,000 Young Carers in the UK. We want to make vital improvements to our outdoor centre, so we can offer them more respite.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer playscheme
£500 25/05/2016
Towards a summer playscheme.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/10/1987, number: 297481
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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; AR07: 35 days late, AR06: 13 days late, AR04: 1328 days late,
Main office

Avonbourne Girls Academy
Harewood Avenue
Bournemouth
Dorset
BH7 6NY

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE: (A) THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY RESIDENTIAL COURSES AND EXPEDITION TRAINING AND OTHERWISE; AND/OR (B) BY PROVIDING ADVICE, ASSISTANCE (INCLUDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE), TRAINING, AND SUPPORT, AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES; AND/OR (C) BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF MATTERS AFFECTING YOUNG PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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