Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 1

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -5

THE AVENUE CENTRE

The objects of the centre are to support families under pressure with children aged 0 to 8. This includes healthy eating schemes, parenting skills, money management, education and caring for the children.

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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:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 35 years

www.avecen.org.uk

m.heller@sky.com

02380510058

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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		£52	£74	£-22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/22		£76	£71	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/21		£81	£79	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/20		£87	£71	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/19		£90	£73	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18		£75	£70	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£74	£65	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£67	£56	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£72	£56	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£63	£59	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£58	£57	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£73	£59	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£61	£56	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£48	£44	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£34	£41	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£45	£39	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£55	£47	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£44	£41	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£42	£50	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£57	£48	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
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

Hampshire, Southampton City,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£5,530	01/12/2018	We are working towards building up emotional resiliance for positive outcomes in their roles as parents. The complex histories of those we work with need intensive interventions as their wellbeing, ....more We are working towards building up emotional resiliance for positive outcomes in their roles as parents. The complex histories of those we work with need intensive interventions as their wellbeing, emotions and general self-esteem are very low. Our group work is adequate for some of our clients, but we have found a lot of our clients would really benefit from one to one mentoring, which we are not, at present in a position to facilitate. Our aim and hope is that having completed these courses, and the one to one sessions, our Mums will be equipped with positive coping strageties for the future, and also as parents.
Joseph Rank Trust - The Avenue Centre, Southampton
£30,000	23/07/2018 36	To fund the running costs of the charity
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Avenue Centre
£10,000	09/03/2017 12	towards one year's salary costs of Playworkers at a project providing help and support to vulnerable families in Southampton
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Avenue Centre
£20,000	16/03/2015 24	towards two years' running costs of a project providing support, care, education and safeguarding for vulnerable families in Southampton
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Avenue Centre
£23,700	25/10/2013	This Southampton charity provides individual and group support to vulnerable families under pressure. This request will fund its parenting support including parenting skills, healthy eating, ....more This Southampton charity provides individual and group support to vulnerable families under pressure. This request will fund its parenting support including parenting skills, healthy eating, budgeting and access to services while reducing isolation

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Gender Split

ALAN PETER JENKINS Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: THE PARAOCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST.JAMES' WEST END IN THE DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER,

KATIE HALL-MAY Appointed: 2023

MARGARET ANN GRIMBLE

MARGARET DOROTHY HELLER

PATRICIA MARGARET OLIVER Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/03/1989, number: 800817

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
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
Social media policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR10: 2 days late, AR07: 9 days late, AR06: 10 days late, AR05: 63 days late, AR04: 33 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from SOUTHAMPTON (HARDMOOR) OPPORTUNITY GROUP on 12/05/2022

Main office

The Avenue Centre
Avenue St Andrew's URC
The Avenue
Southampton
SO17 1XQ

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS SUFFERED BY HOMELESS PERSONS LIVING IN HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN THE CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

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