Finance Score: -19
Governance Score: -10
Support Score: 1
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -4 times
  • Dormant: -10
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Very static board: -5
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: -28 ?

THE CARA TRUST 

Social welfare and health information services for people living with HIV - with a focus on the issues of ageing and poverty.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely male
  • The Board composition appears to be very static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 4 occasions over the last 5 years
  • This charity appears to be dormant
Established: 35 years

www.riverhouseuk.org

info@riverhouseuk.org

02087415733

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This Charity appears to be dormant

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
31/05/22*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/21£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/20*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/19*£0£60£-60n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/05/18?*£250£269£-19£0£0£0n/a015
31/03/17£231£257£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£204£235£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£268£267£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£264£236£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£247£220£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£211£203£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£210£230£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£186£232£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£209£202£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£195£178£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£151£168£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£130£118£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£105£102£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£139£116£23£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - TIED - HIV walking & rambling group
£3,544 22/03/2018
19
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled TIED - HIV walking & rambling group. This project is a ....more
DCMS - ALB-TIED - HIV walking & rambling group
£5,860 22/03/2018
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'TIED - HIV walking & rambling group'. This project is a ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to The Cara Trust
£9,175 22/03/2017
Team london small grants - supporting 59-69 year olds to volunteer and/or elderly people to have improved access to community services
Comic Relief - The Cara Trust
£21,268 30/11/2016
24
Cara Trust works to support people living with HIV/AIDS that are suffering from poverty and that are part of the aging generation of people living with the disease. They offer a range of services ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Cara Trust
£27,000 12/09/2016
24
£27,000 over two years (£13,400; £13,600) for a part-time Social Worker (9 hours per week) to manage the weekly food bank service, and associated project running costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Cara Trust
£60,000 08/09/2016
24
towards two years' running costs of a project providing support to older and disadgantaged people living with HIV in London
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Cara Trust
£70,999 21/07/2016
36
Providing information, advocacy and advice to older people living with HIV. The grant will fund the Positive Housing Solutions programme to support people to make informed decisions on later life ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Cara Trust
£2,500 23/06/2015
towards a holiday to a specialist respite centre in Cornwall for a group of children from London
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Cara Trust
£30,300 27/09/2013
The Cara Trust provides information, advocacy, activities, group and 1:1 support for people living with HIV. The Kids project will provide positive activities and support for pre-school age children ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Cara Trust
£2,000 14/03/2012
towards a trip to Butlins for families from London who are living with or are affected by HIV
National Lottery Community Fund - Cara: African Women's Project
£185,912 11/01/2011
60
This project supports African women with HIV. The project provides a variety of services aimed at improving quality of life, health and education. A weekly peer support group includes a programme of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Development Project
£213,927 12/01/2010
60
This expansion of an existing project will provide volunteering opportunities for people living with the effects of HIV, and support clients who are most in need due to age, poverty, isolation and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/04/1989, number: 328124
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/08/1988, number: 02284056
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR22: 107 days late, AR20: 11 days late, AR19: 194 days late, AR18: 68 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR04: 38 days late,
Main office

The River House Trust
River House
Furnival Gardens
LONDON
W6 9DJ

Objectives

(1) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION BY THE PROVISION OF PASTORAL CARE SUPPORT COUNSELLING AND ADVICE FOR THOSE INVOLVED WITH OR AFFECTED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY HUMAN IMMUNO-DEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) OR RELATED CONDITIONS AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMIT) TO PROVIDE SUCH PASTORAL CARE SUPPORT COUNSELLING AND ADVICE FOR (A) INDIVIDUALS INFECTED BY OR AT RISK OF INFECTION FROM HIV OR SUFFERING FROM AIDS OR RELATED CONDITIONS (B) THE RELATIVES FRIENDS COLLEAGUES AND ASSOCIATES OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS AND (C) DOCTORS NURSES AND OTHER MEDICAL STAFF AND PROFESSIONAL AND VOLUNTARY PERSONNEL WORKING IN THE FIELD OF HIV AIDS OR RELATED CONDITIONS (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THEOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL REFLECTION UPON AND EVALUATION OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF HIV AIDS AND RELATED CONDITIONS FOR CHRISTIANS AND FOR SOCIETY AS A WHOLE (3) THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE CALCULATED TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THROUGH DEATH RESULTING FROM AIDS OR RELATED CONDITIONS A RELATIVE OR FRIEND AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE NATURE OF GRIEVING AND BEREAVEMENT (4) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR CHRISTIANS AND OTHERS WISHING TO OFFER SPIRITUAL EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT TO THOSE AFFECTED BY HIV AIDS OR RELATED CONDITIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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