Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

NEIGHBOURS IN POPLAR 

Provides care and welfare to persons in need through the provision of amenities and recreation and leisure activities in the interests of social welfare.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 36 years

http://www.neighboursinpoplar.com/

mandy.molyneux@neighboursinpoplar.com

02075310910

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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£289£300£-11n/an/an/an/an/a65
31/03/22£299£334£-36n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/21£245£297£-52n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/20£245£297£-52n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/19£244£290£-46n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/18£327£264£63£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£248£215£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£252£214£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£223£230£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£271£258£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£263£283£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£317£287£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£317£315£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£269£298£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£296£268£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£191£246£-54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£191£192£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£126£157£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£169£154£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£126£115£11£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 65 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
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£65,890
City Bridge Trust£56,250
DCMS£24,950
The Clothworkers Foundation£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,988
The Grocers' Charity£5,000
Co-Operative Group£4,604
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Neighbours in Poplar
£65,890 29/11/2023
Bengali Women's Holistic Project.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Neighbours In Poplar
£1,018 21/10/2023
We would like to employ a tutor, and buy food and equipment to run a 'healthy cooking' workshop for older people.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Neighbours In Poplar
£15,000 26/05/2022
purchase a vehicle for a charity supporting older people in London
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Neighbours in Poplar
£3,586 23/10/2021
We'd like to buy tablets and pay for an IT sessional worker. We'd like to help vulnerable older people connect to technology, enabling them to contact family and friends via the digital world.
National Lottery Community Fund - Burcham Street Gardeners
£9,988 22/01/2021
6
The funding will be used to continue delivering a range of online or in person gardening arts and social activities for people living with mental or physical ill health. The project aims to improve ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Neighbours In Poplar
£5,000 17/11/2020
Towards project costs for young people to train older people and those with disabilities on how to use the internet and Apps. The grant provided equipment to teach on and to set up an IT Suite at ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£15,000 07/10/2020
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
£9,950 07/09/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Neighbours in Poplar (NIP)
£6,250 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £6,250, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisations current grant.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Neighbours in Poplar (NIP)
£50,000 31/10/2019
24
£50,000 over two further and final years (2 x £25,000) for the salary of the Outreach Project Worker.
National Lottery Community Fund - Burcham St.Garden: Strength to Strength
£10,000 03/08/2018
12
The funding will be used to run gardening, cooking and arts and crafts activities for people experiencing the effects of mental ill health, stroke, dementia and loneliness. The project aims to build ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Neighbours In Poplar
£3,891 29/11/2017
We would like to buy a new minibus so we can continue to offer a much needed socially inclusive service in our community.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Neighbours In Poplar
£2,800 04/08/2017
We would like to start a project that provides a safe environment for vulnerable, isolated older people and offers a variety of activities.
The Childhood Trust - 46th Summer Project
£3,500 19/05/2017
To provide families on very low income with days away from their Council Estate environment. The families catered for represent a wide cultural variety of people of faiths. This is essential to the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Elements - Burcham Street Gardeners
£9,650 22/02/2017
12
This project will deliver a programme of recreational activities that will support and improve the wellbeing of people who have physical illnesses or who are living with the effects of mental ill ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Neighbours in Poplar (NIP)
£85,500 28/01/2016
36
£85,500 over three years (3 x £28,500) towards a full-time Outreach Worker and associated running costs for a project working with isolated people aged 75+.
National Lottery Community Fund - My Magnificent Story
£10,000 13/09/2012
18
This is a project by a charity in Tower Hamlets. The group will use the funding to engage young volunteers with older people by recording their memories and life experiences. This will reduce the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/08/1988, number: 299843
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR12: 73 days late, AR10: 19 days late, AR09: 45 days late, AR08: 131 days late,
Main office

113 Poplar High Street
London
E14 0AE

Objectives

TO PROVIDE CARE AND WELFARE TO PERSONS IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN POPLAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF AMENITIES AND RECREATION AND LEISURE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NO EXCLUSIVELY, TO CHILDREN, THE AGED AND MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

POPLAR (TOWER HAMLETS BOROUGH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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