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Governance Score: 0
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    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    THE PORCH PROJECT 

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
    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
    28/02/23?*£163£360£-197n/an/an/an/an/a5
    31/12/21£180£165£15n/an/an/an/an/a3
    31/12/20£153£116£37n/an/an/an/an/a14
    31/12/19£127£98£29n/an/an/an/an/a14
    31/12/18£102£91£11£0£0£0n/a014
    31/12/17£119£89£30£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/16£122£80£43£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/15£74£57£17£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/14£60£67£-6£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/13£46£44£2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/12*£56£56£0£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 13 years
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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    • Recreation
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • Other welfare services
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Suffolk,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • The General Public/Mankind

    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
    Suffolk Community Foundation£59,618
    DCMS£35,000
    Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
    Masonic Trust£15,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 04/04/2022
    Main Grants award
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Personal Hygiene Scheme
    £250 25/02/2021
    Towards purchasing personal hygiene items needed for children, young adults and their families in need.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project Personal Hygiene Scheme
    £4,412 18/02/2021
    8
    Support the Porch Projects Personal Hygiene Programme for vulnerable individuals and their families.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Core costs
    £250 29/01/2021
    To support the costs of the hygiene project.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Escape The Trap - Teenage Relationship Abuse Programme
    £4,956 19/09/2020
    15
    Towards running six Escape the Trap programmes regarding teenage relationship abuse.
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £30,000 09/09/2020
    "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
    £5,000 21/08/2020
    6
    Towards the core costs of running the Porch Project in Hadleigh during Covid 19.
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £5,000 21/08/2020
    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
    Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
    £15,000 10/02/2020
    Unrestricted core funding for small charities
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project Youth Council
    £4,750 21/11/2019
    12
    To support the Porch Project Youth Council.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
    £20,000 31/10/2019
    17
    To support a new youth worker.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - A New Horizon
    £20,000 02/08/2019
    10
    Towards the New Horizon project.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
    £6,000 02/07/2019
    10
    To offer stay safe online to local young people.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project
    £20,000 11/06/2019
    11
    Towards youthworker costs of supporting young people in Gt Cornard.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
    £5,000 14/05/2019
    12
    Grant to Porch Project
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Core costs
    £10,000 25/03/2019
    12
    Towards core costs of the Porch Project.
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
    £10,000 13/03/2019
    12
    towards one year's running costs of a project providing holistic support for young people in Suffolk
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £15,000 05/12/2018
    Porch Project
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project
    £5,000 15/06/2018
    11
    Towards weekly drop-in youth sessions in Hadleigh and Great Cornard, providing a safe place for young people to meet and socialise.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Porch Project
    £20,000 13/06/2018
    11
    Towards the youth workers salaries.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
    £5,040 16/01/2018
    12
    To train staff to deliver online safety workshops at schools and within drop-in sessions.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
    £4,000 14/12/2017
    5
    To provide youth workers to continue with their youth drop in sessions.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Venture
    £3,000 06/12/2017
    12
    To support Venture an outdoor educational experience for young people.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
    £15,000 30/11/2017
    12
    Towards the salaries of the youth workers to support young people.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to Porch Project
    £10,000 16/06/2017
    Towards one year's salary costs of a youth worker at a project providing holistic support for young people in Suffolk
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
    £10,000 08/06/2017
    12
    towards one year's salaries of Youth Workers at a project providing holistic support for young people in rural areas of Suffolk
    Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
    £5,000 16/02/2017
    Towards weekly drop-in youth sessions in Hadleigh and Great Cornard, providing a safe place for young people to meet and socialise.
    Suffolk Community Foundation - The Porch Project
    £3,000 23/01/2017
    Towards supporting core salary costs to enable young people to have a safe place to go in Sudbury and Gt Cornard.
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
    £10,000 10/03/2016
    12
    towards one year's running costs of a project providing holistic support services to young people in Suffolk
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Porch Project
    £5,500 12/09/2013
    towards one year's salary of a Youth Work Coordinator at a project providing holistic support for disadvantaged young people in Suffolk
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/08/2011, number: 1143203
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • 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
    11 returns made; AR23: 76 days late, AR12: 6 days late,
    Main office


    Objectives

    TO SUPPORT, HELP AND INSPIRE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WHO LIVE, ARE EDUCATED, TRAINED AND/OR EMPLOYED IN THE HADLEIGH/GT CORNARD AREA OF SUFFOLK AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES THROUGH: 1. PROVIDING SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO MEET, SOCIALISE AND PROMOTE OUR SERVICES DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING. 2. PROVIDING 1-2-1 SUPPORT, GROUP PROGRAMMES, LIFE SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY CONSIDERED OUT OF THEIR REACH RESULTING IN HIGHER SELF-ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE TO ENABLE TO ENABLE THEM TO BE A COHESIVE ELEMENT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, ENCOURAGING CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS TO SUPPORT OTHER AGE GROUPS/VULNERABILITIES.?

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    LOCAL

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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