Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 16
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +16

GRANDPARENTS PLUS 

Grandparents Plus is the national charity which champions the vital role of grandparents and the wider family in children's lives - especially when they take on the caring role in difficult family circumstances and when they have lost contact with children. We do this because we want to make children's lives better.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is endorsed by a respected charity impact evaluator
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
Established: 22 years

www.grandparentsplus.org.uk

info@grandparentsplus.org.uk

03300167235

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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
31/03/22£2,102£1,902£200£87£1,478£3812.450102
31/03/21£2,357£1,810£547£77£1,278£5553.747120
31/03/20£1,172£1,034£138£37£731£4845.626401
31/03/19£965£762£203£13£593£5017.918244
31/03/18£864£778£86£31£390£2744.21875
31/03/17£1,068£854£214£12£304£1962.8210
31/03/16*£1,039£992£47£9£118£60.1200
31/03/15£688£674£14£43£116£791.4130
31/03/14£480£461£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£451£496£-45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£486£430£56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£328£299£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£208£236£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£149£71£77£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£38£71£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£112£117£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£75£78£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£72£55£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£3£16£-13£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 21%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 26%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 3.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 50 employees
  • 102 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Endorsed by:
  • Giving Evidence
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£607,856
Comic Relief£500,000
Esmee Fairbairn£446,000
Department for Education£402,159
City Bridge Trust£211,900
KPMG Foundation£200,000
Dulverton Trust£150,000
DCMS£138,474
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Kinship
£230,000 12/12/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs of Changing the System, Changing Lives: Working hand in hand with kinship carers to influence Government and create a fairer future for children in kinship care
National Lottery Community Fund - WALES COL - Kinship Advice Worker (Wales)
£10,000 09/05/2023
Grandparents Plus £10000 grant means they can continue to offer support and advice for Kinship Carers across Wales especially to those experiencing financial hardship due to the cost-of-living ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Kinship
£6,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
KPMG Foundation - Understanding and responding to the needs of black, asian and minority kinship carers.
£200,000 04/07/2022
There is very little research about the profile and needs of this group of carers in the UK. However, they provide vital support to thousands of children, but are often overlooked and cannot access ....more
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Redcar Kinship Carer Support Group
£792 22/04/2022
This project will fund the facility hire for swimming sessions specifically; 9 sessions for 15 children and 9 sessions for 10 carers.
Dulverton Trust - Kinship core funding 2022-25
£150,000 09/02/2022
Kinship core funding 2022-25
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Kinship (formerly Grandparents Plus)
£40,000 19/10/2021
Supporting Islington Kinship Families
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Kinship
£100,000 24/09/2021
36
The expansion of volunteering for kinship carers, which uses the strengths and knowledge of the kinship care community while building new connections.
Comic Relief - Kinship Campaigners
£500,000 25/05/2021
36
Grandparents Plus is the kinship care charity in England and Wales and leading provider of kinship family support. Kinship carers are relatives and friends who step in to raise someone else?s child. ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£89,976 21/12/2020
This project will deliver a youth advocacy project to children and young people in kinship care. The activities will improve communication skills, increase emotional wellbeing and increase ....more
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - Grandparents Plus (Kinship) - 5
£50,000 03/12/2020
Strategic grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Kinship Support
£98,926 16/07/2020
12
Grandparents Plus will use a £98926 grant to provide tailored support to kinship carers across Wales to help address the additional challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. They will offer ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£10,000 23/06/2020
12
Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on Kinship Carers
Department for Education - Supporting Early Years Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Children
£147,753 01/06/2020
Organisations who provide advice and support to people who are pushed into crisis
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£30,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Department for Education - DCMS Covid-19 funding
£254,406 01/04/2020
To provide support due to the COVID-19 pandemic to three care leaver's charities (Become, the Care Leavers Association and the Drive Forward Foundation - £150k budgeted for that), to Grandparents ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£211,900 30/01/2020
£211,900 over 5 years towards a Senior Advice Worker (London) and associated costs.
The Ballinger Charitable Trust - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£60,000 06/12/2019
36
Core costs - salary
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£180,000 04/12/2019
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to transform children and young people’s experience of kinship care.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Grandparents Plus
£40,000 25/11/2019
Supporting Islington Kinship Families
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£90,000 17/09/2019
Supporting Kinship Families Across England and Wales
National Lottery Community Fund - Kinship Compass
£498,930 25/07/2019
35
Kinship Compass
DCMS - Connected Communities Innovation Fund
£138,474 01/04/2019
Kinship Connect project will build a community of interest for kinship carers and provide kinship carers with peer-to-peer support through an enhanced network of peer-led support groups. Kinship ....more
Sport England - Kinship Active Project
£383,194 03/09/2018
35
Funding under Sport England's Families Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Kinship Active Project. This project lists its main activity as Multi-Skill Coaching
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 13/06/2018
Core Costs
Dulverton Trust - Advice and Support Service
£90,000 13/06/2018
Advice and Support Service
Nesta - AC00769
£276,948 14/05/2018
24
Connected Communities programme grant to Grandparents Plus Grant Ref AC00769
DCMS - Connected Communities Innovation Fund
£138,474 14/05/2018
Kinship Connect project will build a community of interest for kinship carers and provide kinship carers with peer-to-peer support through an enhanced network of peer-led support groups. Kinship ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Grandparents Plus
£50,000 25/01/2018
Supporting Islington Kinship Families
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Growing Up in Kinship Care Research Study
£7,300 08/12/2017
1
This grant will contribute to research on the role of grandparents with responsibility for the care of their grandchildren, and will support the dissemination of findings.
National Lottery Community Fund - TPP2 - Get Connected
£5,000 15/05/2017
12
The group will support and empower young people aged 13-18 raised by grandparents and other family members.The project will reach out to isolated young people and establish a support group led by the ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£5,000 13/06/2016
Towards fund-raising.
National Lottery Community Fund - Grandparents Plus Support Network
£217,370 17/06/2015
35
Grandparents Plus Support Network will expand the support available to grandparents who look after their grandchildren to reduce their isolation and maintain their own social networks. It will also ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Grandparents' Association
£88,600 04/12/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Family Support Manager at a project providing support and services to grandparents who provide care for their grandchildren across ....more
Dulverton Trust - Kinship Family Support Workshops
£30,000 22/10/2014
Kinship Family Support Workshops
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£242,058 24/06/2014
Towards core costs as the organisation transitions to a new business plan and develops new services benefiting grandparent kinship carers.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£75,000 12/06/2014
36
towards three years' salary of the Advice Manager at a project supporting grandparents and other kinship carers raising children across England and Wales
Tudor Trust - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£50,000 07/03/2014
24
over two years towards the costs of developing kinship carer training in parnership with PAC
National Lottery Community Fund - Relative Experience
£1,065,439 25/02/2014
36
The Relative Experience Flagship Project will train 180 older volunteers to work with 370 older family (kinship) carers who are raising children who cannot live with their parents, usually in very ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£30,000 29/06/2012
the salary and on costs of the Senior Advice and Information Worker for kinship carers
Dulverton Trust - core costs and strategic development
£30,000 13/06/2012
core costs and strategic development
National Lottery Community Fund - Relative Experience - North East pilot
£196,500 24/04/2012
24
A project to provide targeted peer parenting across the North East to support older people who are kinship carers for a relative or a family friend who cares for a child who cannot be cared for by a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Network
£316,974 10/08/2011
36
This project will continue and expand support to a national network of grandparents and family members (kinship carers) who have taken on a parental role for children in their care. The group will ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Grandparents Plus
£110,000 30/09/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary and costs of the of policy and research manager.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-74
  • JANET KAY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/09/2002, number: 1093975
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/06/2002, number: 04454103
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
Main office

The Foundry
17 Oval Way
LONDON
SE11 5RR

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARETO PROMOTE THE BETTER CARE, UPBRINGING AND ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE OF CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR BY(A) PROMOTING THE ROLE OF KINSHIP CARE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE CARE BY GRANDPARENTS, AT ALL LEVELS, PARTICULARLY IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF FAMILY BREAKDOWN, SINGLE PARENTHOOD OR OTHER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS; (B) SUPPORTING AND ADVISING GRANDPARENTS AND OTHER KIN WHO ARE ACTING AS, OR INTEND TO ACT AS, CARERS, PARTICULARLY IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OUTLINED ABOVE. (PLEASE SEE COPY OF THE RESOLUTION ON FILE FOR DETAILS).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

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