Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

BUTTLE UK 

We support children who are seriously affected by financial hardship by providing grants for tailored groups to help individual families and young people overcome specific issues they face:-essential items, eg beds, cookers etc-school fees where home circumstances are seriously affecting development,We also commission research and undertake projects based on insights from our grant giving
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has an endowment fund which generates most of its income
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 59 years

www.buttleuk.org

info@buttleuk.org

02078287311

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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£3,723£6,470£-2,747£810£62,242£3,1935.9180
31/03/22£3,015£6,119£-3,104£652£69,352£2,1414.2180
31/03/21£6,895£6,492£403£553£67,767£2,9395.4170
31/03/20£2,639£3,773£-1,134£300£54,080£2,4577.8161
31/03/19£3,345£5,106£-1,761£445£58,656£1,7574.1151
31/03/18£5,822£6,997£-1,175£685£57,141£1,1622200
31/03/17£4,574£6,043£-1,469£658£57,469£910.2210
31/03/16£4,274£5,857£-1,583£525£48,924£3120.6220
31/03/15£4,288£5,611£-1,323£537£52,003£660.1200
31/03/14£4,299£5,511£-1,212£409£48,871£1200.3210
31/03/13£4,603£5,445£-842£352£48,168£1990.4190
31/03/12£3,955£4,791£-836£313£41,432£1390.3160
31/03/11£3,333£4,332£-999£346£42,789£5391.5150
31/03/10£3,525£4,193£-668£384£40,896£3661150
31/03/09£3,663£4,384£-721£440£34,159£7111.9150
31/03/08£3,281£4,214£-933£321£45,542£5421.5140
31/03/07£3,393£3,704£-311£162£48,269£5161.7130
31/03/06£3,284£3,126£158£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£3,099£2,929£169£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£2,618£2,634£-15£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 38%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 5%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000,000
Comic Relief£1,052,076
Garfield Weston Foundation£500,000
Masonic Trust£250,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£235,000
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£193,000
Dulverton Trust£120,000
KPMG Foundation£100,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£40,000 14/09/2023
Towards the Chances for Children small grants programme supporting families of disadvantaged and vulnerable children
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£15,650 19/04/2023
Restricted funding to distribute cash grants to individuals
National Lottery Community Fund - The Chances for Children Crisis Fund
£10,000,000 17/01/2023
The funding will be used to support children and young people who are experiencing financial hardship and dealing with challenging social issues. The project aims to provide a safe space away from ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£40,000 07/10/2022
Chances for Children small grants programme supporting families of disadvantaged and vulnerable children.
Comic Relief - Chances for Children TK Maxx Christmas appeal 2021 top-up funding
£249,632 08/03/2022
Chances for Children grants pay for things that families could not otherwise afford, things that most of us take for granted. They can be for up to £2000 and there is a wide range of items, ....more
Dulverton Trust - Chances for Children grants
£70,000 28/10/2021
Chances for Children grants
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£35,000 27/10/2021
Chances for Children small grants programme supporting families of disadvantaged and vulnerable children.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£200,000 01/10/2021
Chances for Children Grants
KPMG Foundation - Improving outcomes for Estranged Young People
£100,000 15/06/2021
Improving estranged young people's access to support and services in the post pandemic period.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£193,000 04/03/2021
60
To support disadvantaged young people with placements in boarding schools over 5 years
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£35,000 05/11/2020
small grants programme supporting families of disadvantaged and vulnerable children
Dulverton Trust - Emergency Chances for Children grants
£50,000 10/06/2020
Emergency Chances for Children grants
Masonic Trust - MCF COVID-19 Large Grant
£250,000 15/05/2020
Providing Critical Items for Children and Young People in their Homes
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£50,000 12/05/2020
COVID19 : One-off grant towards providing critical items for children and young people in their homes during the Covid-19 crisis.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award - COVID19 response
£300,000 01/05/2020
COVID-19 Response
Comic Relief - Covid Response Grant
£650,000 09/04/2020
12
COVID19 - The funding will be used to provide direct financial support of up to £2,000 through their Chances for Children grants. Grant applications are received via a network of referral ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£35,000 03/12/2019
Towards a small grants programme supporting families of disadvantaged and vulnerable children
Comic Relief - Targeted financial support for very young children impacted by trauma
£152,444 06/11/2019
36
Young children can be affected by trauma caused by a range of adverse childhood experiences. Buttle UK have created an innovative new approach to direct financial support called Chances for Children ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2018
£10,000 04/12/2018
Our Beds for Kids Campaign aims to provide at least 3,000 beds to disadvantaged children and young people. The project supports children who do not have their own bed to sleep in, and instead are ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Buttle UK
£35,000 29/11/2018
Towards a small grants programme supporting families of disadvantaged and vulnerable children
National Lottery Community Fund - Financial Support for Child Victims of Domestic Abuse
£491,318 26/10/2018
36
A project to support children who are seriously affected financially as a consequence of domestic abuse. It will provide grants to help individual families and young people overcome specific issues ....more
Dulverton Trust - Support for Estranged Young People
£30,000 13/06/2018
Support for Estranged Young People
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Buttle UK
£324,697 14/03/2018
£324,697 over one year for the continuation of the Anchor Project, supporting families in London who have experienced domestic abuse to resettle.
Comic Relief - Targeted Financial Support for Child Victims of Domestic Abuse
£100,000 27/09/2017
24
The Anchor Project provides financial support to children affected by domestic abuse, who have been forced to resettle in a new area. The support helps them overcome their experiences and helps their ....more
Dulverton Trust - Support for Estranged Young People
£30,000 15/02/2017
Support for Estranged Young People
Masonic Trust - Support for Estranged Young People
£75,000 20/07/2016
Support for young people who lack family support, enabling them to gain accommodation, education and employment opportunities.
Department for Education - Buttle UK
£120,000 01/04/2016
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Comic Relief - Small grants programme
£51,000 16/03/2016
12
13 million people in the UK live below the poverty line*, including 3.7 million children**. Buttle UK runs a small grants programme in order to help families in the UK living in poverty. The small ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Buttle UK - Kinnections
£669,298 27/11/2014
60
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Targeted funding for struggling families
£317,500 11/03/2014
18
Targeted funding for struggling families
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Buttle UK
£470,000 28/11/2013
£470,000 over 18 months (£264,000; £206,000) in order to establish a hardship fund to support families living with domestic violence in London.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Buttle UK
£74,182 19/01/2012
Towards the salaries of the quality management team, to improve the access, attainment and completion rates of care leavers and looked-after children in further and higher education.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/07/1965, number: 313007
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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

Buttle UK
15 Greycoat Place
LONDON
SW1P 1SB

Objectives

THE MAINTENANCE, EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF BENEFICIARIES, THAT IS TO SAY, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE ORDINARILY RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR WOULD BE SO RESIDENT BUT FOR THE FACT THAT THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS ARE OR WERE TEMPORARY RESIDENT ELSEWHERE AND WHO IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES, ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, WITH A PREFERENCE FOR (A) BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE OR WERE ADOPTED CHILDREN, (B) BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE ILLEGITIMATE, HAVE LOST ONE OR BOTH PARENTS OR ARE OR HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE DEPRIVED OF NORMAL FAMILY LIFE

Defined Area of Benefit:

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Data Sources

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