Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
    • Grant maker support: +11

    THE BROMLEY BY BOW CENTRE 

    To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of East London and surrounding areas either alone or by associating together the inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to advance education, protect and preserve health, relieve poverty, sickness and distress and provide recreational facilities and any such charitable purposes as the trustees shall may decide.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

    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
    Established: 29 years

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    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
    30/06/22£3,248£3,762£-514£419£939£93938872
    30/06/21£4,023£3,962£61£397£1,453£1,4534.49648
    30/06/20£3,530£3,837£-307£397£1,392£1,3924.410146
    30/06/19£3,936£4,182£-246£413£1,699£1,6994.911946
    30/06/18£3,753£4,678£-925£440£1,945£1,8624.812740
    30/06/17£4,373£4,430£-57£391£2,870£3290.91240
    30/06/16£4,108£4,080£28£99£2,927£6822950
    30/06/15£3,665£3,819£-154£138£2,924£6792.1890
    30/06/14£3,343£3,380£-37£154£3,078£8002.8820
    30/06/13?*£2,835£2,903£-68£13£3,115£6322.6820
    31/08/12*£3,942£3,183£759£21£3,183£6622.5840
    31/08/11£3,786£3,780£6£182£2,987£4161.3840
    31/08/10£4,645£4,642£3£22£2,981£3360.91070
    31/08/09£4,200£4,119£81£47£2,978£2470.71000
    31/08/08*£4,096£3,789£307£119£2,897£10860
    31/08/07?*£3,251£3,180£71£100£2,590£-295-1.1760
    31/08/05*£3,446£3,058£388£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/04*£2,154£2,668£-514£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 14.4%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.1%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
    Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 74%
    Liabilities/Income: 82%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
    Reserves/Spending: 3 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: -3 months
    Quick Ratio: 0.4
    Asset Split ?
    What it does
    • Amateur Sport
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Disability
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    Who works here?
    • 88 employees
    • 72 volunteers
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest,

    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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    National Lottery Community Fund£370,041
    The Rayne Foundation£150,000
    Greater London Authority£149,779
    Mercer's Charitable Foundation£100,000
    DCMS£99,934
    City Bridge Trust£58,400
    Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
    The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£50,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Power to Change - THE BROMLEY BY BOW CENTRE (RCF)
    £9,737 12/12/2022
    Grant to THE BROMLEY BY BOW CENTRE (RCF)
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
    £25,000 02/09/2022
    Bromley by Bow Centre - Welcome Hub
    National Lottery Community Fund - Integrated Community Health
    £327,115 18/03/2022
    The project is using funding to support the development of a programme of holistic support for the local community integrating BBBC’s community health and social care hub services. The project ....more
    The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Bromley By Bow Centre
    £50,000 08/02/2022
    Our project offers friendly and accessible services to isolated older people, supporting their engagement with a variety of opportunities to participate in sociable activities together.
    City Bridge Trust - Eco audit to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £2,400 04/10/2021
    £2,400 (6 days) to provide an eco-audit
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £46,000 27/05/2021
    £46,000 over one further and final year towards the costs of three staff salaries – a Housing Advisor (3 days a week), a Housing Case Worker (2 days a week), a Project Manager (0.5 days a week); ....more
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £2,000 09/03/2021
    as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £8,742 24/10/2020
    We would like to organise six Community Feasts, supporting 48 volunteers to put on healthy and nutritious meals for 360 isolated people.
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £99,934 03/07/2020
    "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
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £10,000 19/06/2020
    £10,000 towards remaining costs of the project as outlined in your application.
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre (COVID19 Grant)
    £20,000 05/05/2020
    12
    over six months as crisis funding to help this charity continue to support the local community in Bromley by Bow, East London, during the Coronavirus pandemic
    The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £150,000 20/04/2020
    12
    Towards core costs
    National Lottery Community Fund - Bromley by Bow Development Grant
    £42,926 31/01/2020
    9
    The funding will be used to undertake research into the services offered at the Bromley by Bow Centre, including benefits advice, employment support to creative spaces, and newly piloted social ....more
    Greater London Authority - Bromley by Bow Centre
    £149,779 01/01/2020
    Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
    Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bromley By Bow Centre
    £100,000 18/09/2019
    36
    Space to Connect is a skill-sharing project that connects and supports isolated older people through a range of co-produced activities designed to improve health.
    Co-Op Foundation - STC Enhance
    £47,949 06/09/2019
    The grant will provide infrastructure support to develop sustainability across community spaces run by the centre as part of their timebanking and skill-swap projects. Spaces are animated by ....more
    London Marathon Charitable Trust - Bow and Poplar Inclusive Cycling Hub
    £11,800 24/07/2019
    Towards adaptive bikes and cycling equipment at Bromley-by-Bow Centre as part of the development of an inclusive cycling hub which will provide free cycling sessions open to all, regardless of age, ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 16/04/2019
    Core Costs/Unrestricted Grant
    Greater London Authority - Bromley-by-Bow Centre
    £11,950 03/12/2018
    BBBC Community Solar
    Sport England - Active together
    £301,363 12/11/2018
    41
    Funding under Sport England's Families Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Active together. This project is a Multi-Skill Coaching project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
    The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £30,000 24/05/2018
    24
    Routeways To Employment - Employability project for Women
    John Ellerman Foundation - National Social Prescribing Development Co-ordinator
    £71,000 24/05/2018
    24
    Towards the salary of a National Development Coordinator to support the roll out of social prescribing schemes in England, enabling frontline NHS staff to refer patients to local non-clinical services
    National Lottery Community Fund - The Bromley by Bow Unity Festival
    £10,000 14/03/2018
    12
    The charity will run a one day festival event which will celebrate the diversity and culture of the local area. The project aims to bring people together in and across communities.
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £128,100 23/11/2017
    36
    £128,100 over three years (£40,800; £42,300; £45,000) to meet the cost of an Integrated Housing Advisor (21 hrs pw), a Connections Worker, project evaluation and management costs, to provide ....more
    Tudor Trust - Grant to The Bromley By Bow Centre
    £41,000 29/09/2017
    24
    over two years towards the salary of a Bengali-speaking link worker at a social prescribing service in East London
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 24/07/2017
    Bromley by Bow Centre -- Employment and Skills programme
    Power to Change - Bromley by Bow Centre
    £295,994 14/06/2017
    36
    Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    National Lottery Community Fund - Unity Festival
    £10,000 25/08/2016
    12
    The organisation will use the funding to deliver a community festival event based on food, music and fashion around the different cultures of the area, including activities such as a bouncy castle ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Getting on with Money (GOWM2)
    £340,514 24/08/2016
    36
    This project will expand its work with local residents at risk of homelessness through long term unemployment or mental health issues to improve their financial health by building their knowledge, ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - EastXchange
    £339,758 13/07/2016
    36
    This is the expansion of a project supporting vulnerable local residents, particularly older people, those from migrant communities and those with mental health needs. It will use the Time Bank model ....more
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bromley by Bow Centre
    £50,000 18/03/2016
    £50,000 over 12 months for a Project Manager and on costs, leading work to pilot the Integrated Social Care Hub offering personalised support to vulnerable adults.
    LandAid Charitable Trust - Revenue funding for a Construction Engagement Broker
    £21,431 11/12/2013
    Towards the salary of a Construction Engagement Broker in Bromley by Bow, East London to increase awareness of job opportunities and career prospects across the construction sector, and identify and ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Getting On With Money Transforming Tower Hamlets residents financial capabi
    £597,948 02/08/2012
    36
    Supporting first time tenants and tenants moving in or out of employment, the project will transform the way properties are advertised by providing clearer financial information regarding the costs ....more
    Dunhill Medical Trust - Out and About Project
    £41,178 01/07/2011
    Project Manager and Support and Outreach workers for the Out and About Project
    National Lottery Community Fund - Bromley by Bow Time Bank
    £235,521 15/06/2011
    49
    This project in Bromley by Bow, Tower Hamlets aims to create greater community cohesion and less isolation using the TimeBank model. This will enable reciprocal exchanges of help, skills and support ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (8)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees: 51-81
    • DAVID SMEED Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Management Consultant
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/10/1994, number: 1041653
    • Registered at Companies House on 27/06/1994, number: 02942840
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Other Regulators
    • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Investment
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    18 returns made; AR13: 28 days late, AR12: 29 days late, AR08: 5 days late, AR07: 6 days late, AR05: 347 days late, AR04: 39 days late,
    Main office

    BROMLEY BY BOW CENTRE
    ST. LEONARDS STREET
    LONDON
    E3 3BT

    Objectives

    TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF EAST LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS EITHER ALONE OR BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROTECT AND PRESERVE HEALTH, RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND PROVIDE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND ANY SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    EAST LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
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