Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

    CHEXS 

    CHEXS utilises a unique model to build strong families that contribute to a thriving community. By working with the whole family, CHEXS helps parents or carers build strong, positive relationships and trust with their children. We also coach children and young people through a variety of innovative projects designed to build self-esteem, teamwork, problem-solving and tangible skills.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

    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
    31/08/23£417£440£-22n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/08/22£390£363£27n/an/an/an/an/a15
    31/08/21£344£311£33n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/08/20£337£261£76n/an/an/an/an/a0
    31/08/19£226£241£-15n/an/an/an/an/a15
    31/08/18£213£224£-12£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/17£246£223£23£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/16£246£249£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/15£237£222£15£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/14£187£209£-22£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 11 years

    www.chexs.co.uk

    petem@chexs.co.uk

    07974262875

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Social clubs and similar
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Essex, Hertfordshire, Throughout London,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • 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
    National Lottery Community Fund£605,868
    Henry Smith Charity£404,800
    BBC Children in Need£59,881
    Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation£34,470
    DCMS£21,570
    Masonic Trust£15,500
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to CHEXS
    £186,000 06/11/2023
    towards three years‘ continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing support for families from disadvantaged communities in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
    National Lottery Community Fund - MH CHEXS School Holiday Leadership Club
    £7,281 14/07/2023
    The funding will be used to provide disadvantaged young people who are transitioning into secondary school with the opportunity to deliver and lead a series of fun learning activities during the ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Stronger Families
    £425,941 16/02/2023
    This funding will be used by CHEXS to meet the growing demand from support disadvantaged families in Waltham Cross whose children are struggling at school. The project aims to empower families to ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to CHEXS
    £108,200 07/04/2022
    36
    towards three years‘ running costs of a project providing skills based support for families, as well as providing mentoring for children, who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Waltham ....more
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation - CHEXS Tackling financial crises and food insecurity
    £4,802 04/03/2022
    Grant to CHEXS
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to CHEXS
    £1,000 16/02/2022
    This project will provide training and mentoring to a project worker who will deliver money management sessions to disadvantaged children. Children will improve their life skills through developing ....more
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation - CHEXS Tackling financial crises and food insecurity
    £5,000 24/12/2021
    Grant to CHEXS
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
    £25,000 05/11/2021
    24
    CHEXS - core funding support
    Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
    £500 11/08/2021
    Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation - CHEXS Tackling financial crises and food insecurity
    £9,961 24/06/2021
    Grant to CHEXS
    National Lottery Community Fund - Time For You
    £9,854 09/04/2021
    The funding will be used to deliver a range of community creative sessions. The project aims to improve mental wellbeing reduce stress isolation and anxiety in adults.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to CHEXS
    £56,159 09/09/2020
    12
    COVID19 - This project will provide holiday sessions for disadvantaged children and young people whose behaviours have been exacerbated by Covid-19. Children and young people will improve their ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to CHEXS
    £110,600 12/08/2020
    36
    towards three years' running costs of a 'Family Support Team' project which provides whole-family support and young people’s mentoring to deprived families with children underperforming at school ....more
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation - CHEXS COVID 19 Yr 6 Transition to Yr 7
    £9,745 04/08/2020
    Grant to CHEXS
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £18,848 23/06/2020
    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - (C19 BLF) Frontline support for vulnerable children and their families
    £41,056 18/06/2020
    6
    CHEXS provides support to children and young people facing exclusion or with significant behavioural problems and their families. CHEXS will use this funding for additional staff hours to continue to ....more
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to CHEXS
    £2,722 17/06/2020
    6
    COVID19 - This grant will fund 6 weeks of self-esteem support over the school holidays for disadvantaged children and young people who are isolated due to Covid-19, and help them improve their ....more
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £2,722 19/05/2020
    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
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
    £25,000 01/05/2020
    CHEXS - request for core funding
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Covid 19 support
    £4,962 14/04/2020
    Grant to CHEXS
    National Lottery Community Fund - CHEXS Family Support Lead
    £121,736 12/12/2019
    36
    CHEXS helps parents to build strong, positive relationships and trust with their child, and works with young people through a variety of innovative projects designed to build self-esteem, team-work, ....more
    Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
    £15,000 07/10/2019
    Unrestricted core funding for small charities
    National Lottery Community Fund - CHEXS Parenting Support Programme
    £9,219 23/08/2018
    11
    The organisation will use the funding to run parenting courses to help parents deal with challenging behaviour and special needs and improve emotional wellbeing.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (10)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/09/2013, number: 1153769
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    10 returns made; all on time
    Recent reorganisation events:
    • Asset transfer in from BROXBOURNE EDUCATIONAL CHARITY on 01/12/2023
    Main office

    Theobalds Enterprise Centre
    Theobalds Business Park
    Platinum Way
    Cheshunt
    WALTHAM CROSS
    Hertford

    Objectives

    TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, EXTENDED SERVICES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES OF CHESHUNT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND THE PROVISION OF FAMILY SUPPORT.TO SUPPORT SOCIAL INCLUSION & SOCIAL MOBILITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INNOVATIVE SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING PEOPLE’S WELLBEING, HELPING RAISE ASPIRATIONS AND LIFE CHANCES

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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