Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 3

Reasonable growth: +1

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 7

ROOTS AND SHOOTS

Roots and Shoots provides vocational training for young people with learning, social and emotional problems, to provide them with the skills to find and keep employment. We also provide environmental education for schools and the local community and work towards enhancing and supporting biodiversity in the local area.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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 gender

Established: 27 years

www.rootsandshoots.org.uk

office@rootsandshoots.org.uk

020 7587 1131

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£1,356	£1,241	£116	£0	£1,446	£380	3.7	27	9
31/08/22		£1,252	£1,125	£127	£0	£1,330	£291	3.1	15	9
31/08/21		£983	£961	£22	£0	£1,203	£205	2.6	42	9
31/08/20		£1,029	£1,045	£-16	£0	£1,181	£186	2.1	11	0
31/08/19?	*	£1,286	£1,317	£-32	£0	£1,197	£222	2	16	25
31/03/18		£854	£733	£121	£33	£1,228	£307	5	16	0
31/03/17		£562	£686	£-124	£0	£1,108	£154	2.7	16	0
31/03/16	*	£574	£619	£-45	£0	£1,232	£245	4.8	15	0
31/03/15		£569	£548	£21	£93	£1,277	£289	6.3	14	0
31/03/14		£636	£527	£109	£433	£1,256	£212	4.8	12	0
31/03/13		£417	£403	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£448	£446	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£336	£408	£-72	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£417	£434	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£422	£344	£78	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£399	£348	£51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£290	£477	£-187	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£1,408	£488	£920	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£711	£413	£297	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£416	£368	£48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 26%
Reserves/Spending: 3.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 18.1

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

City Of Westminster, Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

27 employees
9 volunteers

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Gardening Classroom
£9,380	14/04/2023	The funding will be used to continue with the building and refurbishment of a gardening classroom. The project aims to provide bespoke educational programmes for young people with special needs ....more The funding will be used to continue with the building and refurbishment of a gardening classroom. The project aims to provide bespoke educational programmes for young people with special needs giving them transferable skills which help them to progress.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Roots and Shoots
£120,200	06/07/2018 36	£120,200 over three years (£39,300; £40,000; £40,900) for the part-time salaries of the Environmental Education Manager and Gardener Educator.
LandAid Charitable Trust - Construction of a new and sustainable study centre in the centre of a one acre horticultural education site
£150,000	05/03/2013	Construction of a new study centre to enhance the environmental and horticultural aspects of the training and education programmes for disadvantaged young people at Roots and Shoots in Lambeth, ....more Construction of a new study centre to enhance the environmental and horticultural aspects of the training and education programmes for disadvantaged young people at Roots and Shoots in Lambeth, London. The sustainable fit-for-purpose learning space will be the central focus of the one acre site and replaces a delapidated pre fab.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 55-75

DARREN COUGHLAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Charity Director

GLENDA KING Appointed: 1997, Occupation: Teacher

JACQUELINE THOMSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired Teacher

MARTHA LAIRD MCDONALD Appointed: 2019

MICHAEL MITCHELL, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeships: TRINITY IN CAMBERWELL, ST GEORGES POP-IN, A PARTNER IN EDUCATION, PEMBROKE COLLEGE SETTLEMENT,

PRIMROSE CAMPBELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Managing Director

REV GRAHAM GEORGE COCKING, Occupation: Methodist Minister

VALERIE ANN STAPLETON Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Education Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/08/1997, number: 1064070
Registered at Companies House on 09/07/1997, number: 03400781

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

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

20 returns made; AR19: 63 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR12: 1 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 33 days late, AR06: 2 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from ASSOCIATION FOR MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT on 14/02/2023

Main office

Roots & Shoots
The Vauxhall Centre
Walnut Tree Walk
London
SE11 6DN

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION TO YOUNG PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND/OR EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS AND TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

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