Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Dynamic board: +3
    • Gender balanced board: +3
    • Grant maker support: +7
    Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

    STUDENT HUBS 

    Students have the power and potential to shape a better world. We support students at UK universities to learn, connect and engage in social action.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
    Established: 16 years

    www.studenthubs.org

    info@studenthubs.org

    07970495688

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    UN SDGs
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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
    31/07/23£527£488£39£56£260£2556.31455
    31/07/22£514£461£53£53£221£2045.31426
    31/07/21£530£460£71£52£168£561.51545
    31/07/20£511£434£77£23£97£200.6152,000
    31/07/19£567£564£3£38£20£200.4221,755
    31/07/18£668£656£11£37£18£180.3240
    31/07/17£602£597£5£34£6£60.1250
    31/07/16£787£788£-1£41£1£10250
    31/07/15£840£868£-28£60£2£20200
    31/07/14£812£846£-34£55£31£280.4200
    31/07/13£550£509£41£64£65£0n/a110
    31/07/12£396£416£-20£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/11£229£230£-1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/10*£187£164£23£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/09?£67£86£-20£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/08*£61£19£41£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.7%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.5%
    Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 19%
    Liabilities/Income: 12%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
    Reserves/Spending: 6.3 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
    Quick Ratio: 4.8
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    How it operates
    • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England And Wales,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • Other Defined Groups
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • 14 employees
    • 55 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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    National Lottery Community Fund£311,364
    Pears Foundation£120,000
    Dulverton Trust£30,000
    Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
    Quartet Community Foundation£12,917
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs - Bristol Hub
    £5,000 22/06/2022
    For the LinkAges intergenerational volunteering programme, which seeks to support older people who are experiencing social isolation and ageism by building friendships and closing the cultural gap ....more
    Pears Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs
    £25,000 03/12/2021
    Core Funding
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 17/09/2021
    Proposal for Core Funding
    Quartet Community Foundation - LinkAges
    £7,917 23/06/2021
    8
    The LinkAges intergenerational volunteering programme, linking university students with older people who are experiencing social isolation.
    Pears Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs
    £30,000 12/02/2021
    Covid-19 Emergency Support for Bristol and Cambridge Hubs
    Pears Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs
    £25,000 18/01/2021
    Core Funding
    Dulverton Trust - Core Funding
    £30,000 23/10/2019
    Core Funding
    Pears Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs
    £40,000 30/09/2019
    12
    Pears #iWill Fund: Platinum Hub Development Funding
    National Lottery Community Fund - Plus Provision
    £311,364 09/08/2019
    60
    Plus Provision
    The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs
    £5,000 02/05/2019
    12
    Towards a (pilot) project that aims to develop summer workshops for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC).
    Pears Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs
    £50,000 05/04/2018
    24
    Core funding
    Sport England - Potentials Fund
    £146,957 16/10/2017
    36
    Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Potentials Fund'. This project is a Sport and Physical Activity project, with a focus on younger ....more
    Sport England - Potentials Fund
    £146,957 16/10/2017
    35
    Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Potentials Fund. This project is a Sport and Physical Activity project, with a focus on younger ....more
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Oxford Hub 2.0
    £35,000 18/09/2017
    Students take part in practical volunteering, complete placements in local charities and receive support to incubate new projects.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Student Hubs
    £28,059 10/08/2017
    36
    This project will provide day trips and activities to looked after children and young people and those living in low income households. Children and young people will improve their confidence and ....more
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Equality & Inclusion Programme
    £4,998 08/05/2017
    12
    5 pilot projects: 3 in local schools, one in a care home and one IT class (at a neighbourhood community centre). All 5 pilot projects will be designed and led by students with disabilities.
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Young Trustees Programme
    £2,500 08/11/2016
    Student placement as 'visiting trustees'We want to place 20 students as 'visiting trustees' in local charity boards. The grant will go towards running a pilot programme between July 2016 and October ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Student Hubs
    £72,400 13/10/2016
    36
    towards three years' running costs of 'LinkAges', a UK-wide project that brings university students and older people together to help reduce loneliness
    The Blagrave Trust - Southampton & Winchester Hubs
    £45,000 28/06/2016
    Combining student social action with support for local disadvantaged children and young people
    Dulverton Trust - LinkAges: Reducing elderly isolation
    £50,000 08/06/2016
    LinkAges: Reducing elderly isolation
    Pears Foundation - Grant to Student Hubs
    £50,000 16/03/2016
    24
    Core funding
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Branch Up
    £4,500 13/02/2015
    Improve life skills, education, employability and enterprise
    Dulverton Trust - Schools Plus South West Programme
    £20,000 04/02/2015
    Schools Plus South West Programme
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Increase Student Volunteers 3 Fold
    £36,000 04/02/2015
    Maximise ability to strengthen community cohesion and build social capacity
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (9)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    Age Range of Trustees: 27-47
    • ALICE WILBY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Pro-Vice Chancellor
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/01/2008, number: 1122328
    • Registered at Companies House on 08/08/2007, number: 06337272
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment 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
    • Investment
    • 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
    16 returns made; AR10: 13 days late, AR08: 23 days late,
    Main office

    C/O CRITCHLEYS LLP
    23-38 HYTHE BRIDGE STREET
    OXFORD
    OX1 2EP

    Objectives

    3.1.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONGST THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM REGARDING ISSUES ENCOUNTERED BY OR AFFECTING THE DEVELOPING WORLD OR THOSE WITHIN THE CHARITY SECTOR;3.1.2 TO PROMOTE PARTICIPATION WITHIN VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN SO FAR AS SUCH ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS ARE WORKING TO ADVANCE CHARITABLE PURPOSES;3.1.3 TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN SO FAR AS SUCH ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS ARE WORKING TO ADVANCE CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    OXFORDSHIRE

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
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