Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 26 ?

GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUNG CARERS PROJECT 

Supporting Young Carers (children and young people caring for somone, usually a parent or sibling, with a phyical, mental or sensory impairment) through the provision of services and by raising awareness of their needs.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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*£813£859£-47£9£895£57282245
31/03/22£1,005£695£310£8£942£59510.32475
31/03/21£869£593£276£6£631£50710.32475
31/03/20£714£656£58£0£355£3436.32870
31/03/19£656£678£-21£0£297£2875.12075
31/03/18£641£674£-34£0£319£3095.5280
31/03/17£651£654£-2£0£352£3296280
31/03/16*£594£637£-43£0£355£3506.6260
31/03/15*£684£617£67£8£398£310.6140
31/03/14£554£550£3£10£331£2154.7120
31/03/13£550£524£26£7£328£2295.3120
31/03/12£500£480£20£6£302£2456.1110
31/03/11£596£469£127£37£282£2416.2100
31/03/10£442£424£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£380£356£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£285£274£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£242£225£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£224£225£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£193£188£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£166£161£5£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 64%
Reserves/Spending: 8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 12 months
Quick Ratio: 20.7
Asset Split ?
Established: 22 years
(26 years as a company)

www.glosyoungcarers.org.uk

mail@glosyoungcarers.org.uk

01452733060

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Care for carers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports 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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£590,000
National Lottery Community Fund£132,238
Henry Smith Charity£124,600
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund£60,000
Barnwood Trust£15,550
Masonic Trust£12,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Barnwood Trust - Glos Funders - Organisation and Group Funding
£3,550 13/04/2023
12
Provide short breaks for carers
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Strategic Investment Fund
£30,000 18/01/2023
Gloucestershire Young Carers works with children and young people with a caring responsibility for a family member. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Carers weekly respite groups
£132,238 14/12/2022
This funding will be used to continue the delivery of a countywide provision of weekly term-time respite groups support and activity for young people with caring responsibilities. The project aims ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers Project
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - Gloucestershire Young Carers - 1
£60,000 14/10/2021
To employ an Education Development Officer, working alongside young carers, to expand our work supporting schools and colleges across Gloucestershire to better identify, understand and support young ....more
Barnwood Trust - Organisational and Groups Funding
£12,000 25/05/2021
Respite support groups for young carers
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Gloucestershire Young Carers - organisational development
£500,000 23/03/2021
Gloucestershire Young Carers works with children and young people with a caring responsibility for a family member. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Freemasons COVID-19 Community Fund
£12,000 08/03/2021
Grant to fund 4 respite groups enabling Young Carers to take part in activities, receive support and counselling and meet others to provide a break from caring responsibilities and allow them to make ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers
£7,450 23/07/2020
Grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers Project
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund three laptops for staff and activity resources for young carers isolated due to Covid-19. Young carers will feel less isolated.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 29/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - A strategic advance to embed asset-based approaches
£60,000 27/03/2020
Gloucestershire Young Carers works with children and young people with a caring responsibility for a family member. This grant supports GYC to undertake an independent evaluation of co-production as ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers
£124,600 19/03/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of three projects providing support to young carers with a parent affected by mental health issues in Gloucestershire
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers Project
£99,999 23/10/2018
36
This project will provide regular group sessions for young carers. Young people will feel less isolated, have improved emotional well-being and have more independence.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers
£71,190 18/10/2018
36
Gloucestershire Young Carers support young carers aged 17 - 24 to make a successful transition into adulthood despite their caring responsibilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Carers Sing Out
£10,000 13/10/2016
12
This project will use the funding to deliver music workshops to young carers culminating in a public performance. This will enable the organisation to showcase the talents and caring abilities within ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - We care, we sing
£10,000 17/12/2014
12
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Gloucestershire Young Carers
£69,000 08/10/2014
Gloucestershire Young Carers will support young carers aged 17 - 24 to make a successful transition into adulthood despite their caring responsibilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - We Care, We Count
£41,935 28/11/2013
24
The project will provide group support and respite for young carers about the daily issues they face, such as money matters, budgeting, preparing meals and administering medication. By delivering ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-76
  • AMANDA DEEKS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired Chief Executive County Council
  • REBECCA PARISH (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Nhs Senior Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/01/2002, number: 1090289
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/10/1997, number: 03458723
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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 77 days late, AR16: 0 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Twigworth Court
Tewkesbury Road
Twigworth
Gloucester
GL2 9PG

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THE STRESSES EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG CARERS AND (THEREFORE) PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT WITHIN THE FAMILY OR HOME BY EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE NEEDS OF YOUNG CARERS AND TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF APPROPRIATE SUPPORT SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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