Overall GiG Score: 9 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 12
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +12

THOMAS CORAM FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN (FORMERLY FOUNDLING HOSPITAL) 

Through services in adoption, supported housing, parents centre, family support and education, Coram works with vulnerable children, young people and their families, transforming their lives through practical help and support. We aim to build self-esteem and well-being, preparing children and young people for a fulfilling adult life.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 57 years

www.coram.org.uk

caitlin.kennedy@coram.org.uk

02075200300

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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£21,785£21,691£94£4,082£30,837£16,3959.14462,272
31/03/22£21,239£20,719£521£3,934£31,490£16,2489.44332,285
31/03/21£20,868£20,054£814£3,269£30,071£15,6809.4438930
31/03/20£20,428£20,820£-392£3,695£27,357£14,9898.64633,400
31/03/19£24,056£19,709£4,347£1,164£28,371£15,2839.34852,500
31/03/18*£19,733£18,296£1,436£4,308£23,692£9,2286.13930
31/03/17£9,433£8,055£1,378£4,922£21,963£6,4959.73870
31/03/16*£18,345£19,357£-1,011£4,339£18,690£3,7692.33790
31/03/15£16,651£16,091£559£2,868£19,350£4,7293.53260
31/03/14£12,818£12,225£593£2,279£18,827£3,3473.32570
31/03/13£7,723£7,396£326£1,007£17,588£1,83831780
31/03/12*£11,233£10,094£1,139£1,212£22,457£-246-0.31930
31/03/11£8,128£8,484£-356£617£17,512£-465-0.71640
31/03/10£8,315£8,929£-614£532£14,232£7040.91540
31/03/09£7,061£7,370£-309£723£14,186£7101.21660
31/03/08*£7,384£6,882£502£631£18,098£2320.41690
31/03/07*£6,637£7,359£-723£500£17,552£-462-0.81960
31/03/06£7,579£7,554£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£7,167£7,433£-266£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£6,869£7,751£-882£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 23.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 19%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 31%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 53%
Reserves/Spending: 9.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 446 employees
  • 2,272 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Pears Foundation£1,354,902
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£410,600
Comic Relief£187,356
Greater London Authority£89,571
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Improving immigration advice for London children, young people and families
£3,600 18/01/2023
Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) promotes and protects children's rights worldwide and chairs the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC). With this grant, RMCC will deliver a ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£999,902 03/12/2021
Pears DCMS Volunteering Futures Fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Staffing support at Coram Children’s Legal Centre
£300,000 19/10/2021
48
Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) promotes and protects children’s rights worldwide, ensuring their interests are represented at every level of the legal process. This grant provides top-up ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£250,000 21/06/2021
Beanstalk, Creative Therapies and Migrant Children's Programme
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding
£40,291 01/04/2021
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
Nuffield Foundation - Grant to Coram BAAF
£41,610 16/03/2021
17
Towards Guidance to judges on the anonymisation of children judgments
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Improving immigration advice for London children, young people and families
£107,000 23/11/2020
Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) promotes and protects children's rights worldwide and chairs the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC). With this grant, RMCC will deliver a ....more
Comic Relief - Creative Therapy
£35,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£30,000 14/04/2020
12
Migrant Children's Programme
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 21/22
£43,270 01/04/2020
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£75,000 09/03/2020
12
Creative therapies and other activities based in the Pears Pavilion
Nesta - AR00274
£56,233 12/11/2019
4
What Works Centre for Children's Social Care Incubator programme grant to Coram Grant Ref AR00274
Comic Relief - Happy Futures for Children following Care Proceedings
£152,356 06/11/2019
36
14,000 children a year are the subject of care proceedings due to actual cases or risk of abuse and neglect. This trauma causes a range of evidenced developmental problems that are compounded by ....more
Greater London Authority - Coram
£89,571 01/09/2019
Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
£5,000 31/12/2018
Visualising data in care proceedings
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Coram
£300,000 19/09/2018
36
Towards the work of the Coram Centre for Impact, seeking to improve national practice in children's social care.
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£60,000 16/04/2018
24
Migrant Children's Project
Home Office - Child Trafficking Protection Fund (CTPF) 18-19
£182,673 01/04/2018
The CTPF aims to reduce the vulnerability to exploitation of children who are, or have the potential to be, trafficked; and to support child victims who have already been trafficked.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Coram
£1,311,800 06/03/2018
Voices Through Time: The Story of Care
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£150,000 09/01/2018
24
Funding for creative therapies and other activities
Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
£79,700 16/11/2017
Visualising data in care proceedings
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£50,000 12/04/2016
24
Migrant Children's Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Adoption Activity Days (AAD's)
£259,563 02/12/2015
24
Adoption Activity Days (AAD's)
Pears Foundation - Grant to Coram
£150,000 11/09/2015
24
Creative Therapies and other activities primarily based in the Pears Pavilion
LandAid Charitable Trust - Building costs for a creative therapy room
£50,000 20/05/2014
For the Youth Zone in the Creative Pears Pavilion to support young people over 14 in Creative Therapy, as well as wider advocacy, education and enterprise engagement activities, enabling them to ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Coram
£355,000 15/09/2011
Towards the work of the policy and research team.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/10/1966, number: 312278
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR12: 1 days late, AR08: 2 days late, AR07: 2 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE PYRUS TRUST on 20/08/2019
  • Asset transfer in from CORAM CAMBRIDGESHIRE ADOPTION LIMITED on 29/12/2021
  • Asset transfer in from WHITTINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST on 16/02/2024
Main office

Coram Campus
41 Brunswick Square
London
WC1N 1AZ

Objectives

(A) THE PROVISION MAINTENANCE AND CONDUCT OF DAY NURSERIES NURSERY SCHOOLS OPEN SPACES AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS AND FACILITIES FOR OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE EDUCATION AND WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN NEED THEREOF (B) ANY OBJECTS INCIDENT OR CONTRIBUTORY TO THE WELFARE OF A CHILD OR THE MAINTENANCE OF ITS MOTHER DURING SUCH PERIOD PRIOR TO AND AFTER THE BIRTH OF THE CHILD AS THE CORPORATION MAY CONSIDER EXPEDIENT IF THE MOTHER HAS NO SUFFICIENT MEANS OF MAINTAINING HERSELF AND HER CHILD OR NO SUFFICIENT MEANS OF ENSURING THE WELFARE OF THE CHILD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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