Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

BROOK YOUNG PEOPLE 

Promoting the health, particularly sexual health, of young people and those most vulnerable to sexual ill health, through providing information, education and outreach, counselling, confidential clinical and medical services, professional advice and training
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 34 years

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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£13,033£12,940£93£16£2,565£2,3762.223330
31/03/22£12,970£12,265£705£4£2,472£2,2752.224540
31/03/21£9,931£9,626£305£8£1,767£1,5491.923540
31/03/20£9,864£9,793£71£28£1,462£1,2231.527020
31/03/19£9,163£9,222£-59£5£1,521£1,2591.626130
31/03/18£10,352£10,912£-560£14£2,012£1,6231.82590
31/03/17£11,261£12,279£-1,017£0£2,572£2,1592.14160
31/03/16£12,158£13,714£-1,556£0£3,589£3,1152.75040
31/03/15£13,841£14,887£-1,046£75£5,171£4,6303.72680
31/03/14£14,316£14,487£-171£136£6,345£5,6494.72640
31/03/13£987£977£10£5£232£2272.8130
31/03/12*£983£1,061£-78£12£222£2152.4170
31/03/11*£951£1,075£-123£33£319£2372.6200
31/03/10£916£951£-36£23£442£2993.8170
31/03/09£878£954£-76£20£478£3083.9160
31/03/08£781£863£-83£21£554£3364.7140
31/03/07*£777£838£-61£25£637£3434.9140
31/03/06£778£796£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£793£744£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£631£667£-36£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 34%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 93%
Reserves/Spending: 2.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 233 employees
  • 30 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
Department of Health£488,130
Garfield Weston Foundation£175,000
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£73,699
Masonic Trust£64,278
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Department of Health - Brook Young People
£133,224 16/12/2022
The Health and Wellbeing (HW) Programme is a joint initiative managed by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) and (soon to be confirmed UKHSA) (the ....more
Department of Health - London Sexual Violence Grants Programme 2022
£324,906 18/03/2022
In 2018/19 NHS England made an additional £4million per annum available nationally to support the implementation of the Strategic Direction for Sexual Assault and Abuse Services Lifelong care for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Pornography Education Consultation Pilot in Cardiff and RCT
£9,927 24/01/2022
Brook Young People will use £9927 to pay for staff travel translation and marketing. They will increase education and awareness around the risks of pornography for young people and supporting ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£64,278 26/05/2021
A grant to support relationship and sex education for young people with Special Educational Needs in the Durham area.
Department of Health - Brook - Spotting the Signs (StS)
£30,000 04/03/2021
The purpose of the Grant is to award £30,000 funding to Brook Young People in support of an urgent update to the Spotting the Signs (StS) healthcare professional proforma
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£150,000 29/01/2021
Digital Front Door
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Brook Learn Live
£73,699 01/07/2020
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=69807
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brook Young People
£29,456 19/05/2020
A grant of £29,456 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 28/05/2019
Brook Quality
Department of Health - Brook
£73,984 01/04/2019
Brook
DCMS - Brook Young People
£1,026,168 01/04/2019
The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
DCMS - Brook Young People
£480,689 01/04/2018
The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.
National Lottery Community Fund - Brook incredible Dads
£249,060 23/02/2015
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Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Brook Young People
£176,820 24/04/2014
Towards the costs of a strategic step-change of an organisation that provides personal development and learning programmes around relationships to vulnerable young people.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 24-68
  • CLARE DALY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Worker
  • SALONI THAKRAR Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity Founder, Consultant, Pharmacist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/06/1990, number: 703015
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/02/1990, number: 02466940
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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; AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 7 days late, AR07: 146 days late,
Main office

Brook
PO Box 78732
LONDON
EC2P 2TA

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, PARTICULARLY SEXUAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THOSE MOST VULNERABLE TO SEXUAL ILL HEALTH THROUGH PROVIDING INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH, COUNSELLING, CONFIDENTIAL CLINICAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES, PROFESSIONAL ADVICE AND TRAINING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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