Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 14
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

PEER POWER YOUTH

Peer Power Youth is an exciting, young social justice charity that promotes empathy towards under-supported children and young people. We support children and workers to develop strong and trusted relationships, increase young people's voice, improve their emotional health and well-being, and to work together to transform services for children in need. www.peerpower.org.uk
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£639£741£-102£19£149£1101.81125
31/03/22£453£536£-83n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£521£355£165£6£334£722.4152
31/03/20£306£178£128n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£188£183£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18?£60£44£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/17£15£17£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 73%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 3.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 8 years

www.peerpower.org.uk

info@peerpower.org.uk

0207 018 9070

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£399,519
The Blagrave Trust£288,865
Esmee Fairbairn£216,200
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£167,413
Tudor Trust£92,000
Westminster Foundation£36,977
Dulverton Trust£34,922
AB Charitable Trust£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Blagrave Trust - The Listening Fund Youth Leadership Fund
£86,000 30/11/2023
Peer Power Youth - TLF Advisers' Fund
Dulverton Trust - Peer Power-Senior Youth Worker
£34,922 26/10/2023
Peer Power-Senior Youth Worker
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Peer Power Youth
£25,000 12/10/2023
An unrestricted grant of £25,000. Peer Power Youth work to bring voices of young people who have experienced injustice, inequality and trauma through providing holistic wraparound support, ....more
Westminster Foundation - Small grant - Peer Power Youth - 08/06/2023
£9,977 06/08/2023
12
Chill and Skill Sessions
Westminster Foundation - Offices grant - Peer Power Youth - 25/07/2023
£27,000 25/07/2023
35
Fivefields Grant
The Blagrave Trust - Regional Partnership Grants
£101,036 30/06/2023
Voice and influence in the SE
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Power Empathy Involvement Framework for the Voluntary Sector
£389,793 29/03/2023
The funding will be used to improve services for vulnerable children young people by supporting public and voluntary sector practitioners with a framework and tools to embed co-production and youth ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£9,200 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Power Chill and Skill Sessions
£9,726 16/12/2022
The funding will be used to run skills and wellbeing sessions for young people who have experienced discrimination for a range of reasons including race and disabilities. The project aims to improve ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing youth-led communications
£5,913 01/12/2022
Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services and mental health systems to advocate for positive change within these systems and services. This grant ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 08/07/2022
Peer Power - Core Costs
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Follow-on Funding: Developing youth-led communications to amplify lived experience
£60,000 01/03/2022
Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services, and mental health systems, empowering them to advocate for positive change. This grant provides ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Opportunity Fund Phase 2 - PP Agent Org
£101,829 31/08/2021
Livlihood support for young campaigners
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£15,000 17/03/2021
3
Peer Power supports young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, social services and mental health systems to advocate for positive change within these systems and services. This grant ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£2,000 26/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing creative experiential training packages to increase our impact nationally
£1,500 18/01/2021
Peer Power supports young people who have experienced abuse, violence and trauma to understand their life experiences and develop empathy towards themselves and others. This grant will fund training ....more
Joseph Levy Foundation - Covid-19: young people's peer support workers
£9,980 15/12/2020
6
Covid-19: to fund 2 Peer Engagement Workers and support costs for the period January to June 2021
Tudor Trust - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£90,000 17/07/2020
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the Head of Finance and Operations salary at an organisation led by young people who work to improve and transform the support services they have ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£21,921 19/06/2020
£21,921 towards costs outlined in your application excluding the contibution towards core costs.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£23,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 16/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing creative experiential training packages
£5,000 16/03/2020
Peer Power supports young people who have experienced abuse, violence and trauma to understand their life experiences and develop empathy towards themselves and others. This mini-grant contributes to ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£184,000 22/01/2020
48
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation working with the most under-supported children, teenagers and young adults in society to transform criminal justice and mental health services.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Creating the capacity to communicate more effectively
£60,000 09/12/2019
24
To fund a new Head of Communications and Communications Apprentice to enhance the profile, reach and capacity of programmes supporting young people with lived experience of the criminal justice, ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing creative experiential training packages to increase our impact nationally
£73,000 03/09/2019
24
To train Peer Leaders to support young people in building self-esteem, creating community and making change to policies and services using co-production methods with statutory professionals.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£5,800 24/07/2019
12
as a development grant towards tailored support to build the communication and media skills of the CEO, staff and young people of a national organisation working to transform services for young people
The Blagrave Trust - The Opportunity Fund
£35,848 19/03/2019
Providing a year long basic income for young campaigners
Tudor Trust - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£56,000 19/03/2018
36
over two years towards the salary of a finance and operations manager at a charity which supports young people with experience of care or youth justice to improve the way young people's needs are ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Peer Power Youth
£60,000 27/11/2017
24
Towards the Director's salary of an organisation supporting young people's role as experts within the youth justice sector, promoting professional practice based on empathy and trusted relationships.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

  • ALEX LLOYD Appointed: 2020
  • ANNALISA MENSAH Appointed: 2020
  • ANNIE MORRIS Appointed: 2020
  • CLARE RICHARDS Appointed: 2023
  • DAME LORNA BORELAND-KELLY Appointed: 2021
  • DOMINIC COTTON Appointed: 2023
  • ELENA MARTIN LAGUNA Appointed: 2018
  • KRISTIN BARKER Appointed: 2020
  • SARAH JONES Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/06/2016, number: 1167758
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
  • 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
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Fivefields
X+Why
8-10 Grosvenor Gardens
LONDON

Objectives

TO SUPPORT THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (PREDOMINANTLY AGED 10-25), INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED AND HAVE EXPERIENCED YOUTH JUSTICE AND/OR CARE SERVICES, BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR STRENGTHS, SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS, AND TO HELP TACKLE SOCIAL PROBLEMS AFFECTING SUCH PERSONS SUCH AS SUBSTANCE MISUSE, EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, HOMELESSNESS, REPEAT OFFENDING AND UNEMPLOYMENT AND TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SERVICES PROVIDED FOR SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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