Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +10

CHOICES ISLINGTON 

Advisory and support services for women facing unplanned pregnancy and support for post abortion or other pregnancy or child loss concerns. Befriending service offering practical support, group participation and individual mentoring for vulnerable pregnant women or new mothers. Relationships and Sexual Health Education project for local young people and targeted groups.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased 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 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 16 years

www.choicescharity.org

info@choicescharity.org

020 7700 4475

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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
31/12/22£220£227£-7n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/21£214£183£31n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/20£189£164£25n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/19£162£174£-12n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/12/18£180£159£22£0£0£0n/a030
31/12/17£171£164£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£190£179£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£138£166£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£135£139£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£152£120£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£124£115£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£96£141£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£114£119£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£76£86£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£48£25£23£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 30 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden, City Of London, Hackney, Haringey, Islington,

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£219,827
City Bridge Trust£172,346
Henry Smith Charity£90,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£30,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£18,116
The Pilgrim Trust£15,000
DCMS£9,945
Garfield Weston Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Choices Boutique
£9,991 11/08/2023
The funding will be used to continue a private appointment-based baby bank. The project aims to help women choose the best pieces for them with privacy and feel uninhibited by the judgement of others.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Choices Islington
£149,800 16/11/2022
36
£149,800 over 3 years (£46,572, £49,908, £53,320) towards the costs of providing a one-to-one counselling service for women prisoners and ex-prisoners specifically for issues of pregnancy, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Choice for Change
£200,173 20/10/2022
This funding will enable Choices Islington to deliver one-to-one counselling sessions for women prisoners specifically related to issues of pregnancy child loss or child separation. The project will ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CHOICES Parenting Support Programme
£9,663 26/11/2021
The funding will support local vulnerable women aged 18+ and their families living in Islington/surrounding Boroughs with unplanned pregnancy pregnancy crisis and pregnancy loss counselling as well ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 19/02/2021
Choices
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Choices Islington
£10,000 15/12/2020
0
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,945 29/09/2020
"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
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Choices Islington
£90,000 16/09/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of an organisation providing support to women, and their partners, with unplanned pregnancy, abortion, pregnancy loss and separation in the London Borough of ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Choices Islington
£5,008 23/07/2020
Grant to Choices Islington meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Choices Islington
£12,546 19/06/2020
£12,546 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Choices Islington
£15,000 27/02/2020
36
A three-year grant towards the salary costs of the Parenting Support Manager
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the costs of a Parenting Support Project
£1,000 15/11/2019
Towards the costs of Parenting Support Project.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Choices Islington
£30,000 10/10/2019
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Choices Islington
£13,108 26/06/2019
12
Choices Islington is requesting funding towards staff and consultancy costs to develop a theory of change and to strengthen its monitoring and evaluation framework, supporting improved service ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to CHOICES Islington
£10,000 27/11/2018
Community Befriending Service, Islington
National Lottery Community Fund - Practical Parenting Support Project
£10,000 05/10/2018
12
The project will deliver support to women who have babies and small children. The aim is to offer befriending and parenting support to low income families.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Choices Islington
£90,000 08/06/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to women, and their partners, with unplanned pregnancy, abortion, pregnancy loss and separation in the London Borough of Islington
National Lottery Community Fund - Refurbishing of our Counselling Rooms, Community Base and Office.
£10,000 09/09/2015
12
The group will use the funding to refurbish their current facilities to be able to provide more services in the community. This will enable the organisation to better serve its beneficiaries.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Choices Islington
£48,600 25/09/2014
36
£48,600 over three years (£19,400; £14,400; £14,800) towards two part-time counsellors’ salaries and related support costs for work in HMP Holloway.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Salary of a prison counsellor for HMP Holloway
£1,500 04/02/2014
Towards the salary of a prison counsellor for HMP Holloway.
London Catalyst - Choices Islington - 1
£2,500 25/09/2013
HMP Child Loss Counselling service
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Choices Islington
£90,000 12/09/2012
36
towards three years' running costs of a project in the London Borough of Islington that supports vulnerable women, including ex-offenders, who are experiencing pregnancy crisis or loss
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the costs of a Prison Counsellor for women
£1,000 12/07/2012
Towards the costs of a Prison Counsellor for women who have experienced pregnancy or child loss.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-66
  • CHLOE SELBY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Operations Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/05/2008, number: 1124209
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/02/2008, number: 06517231
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
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

Choices Islington
390 Caledonian Road
LONDON
N1 1DN

Objectives

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECT OF PREGNANCY AND THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY AND INTO THE EFFECTS THEREOF UPON WOMEN WHETHER PHYSICAL, MEDICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL;3.2 THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF WOMEN'S HEALTH.3.3 THE PROVISION OF ADVICE COUNSELLING AND ASSISTANCE TO WOMEN AND THEIR PARTNERS AND FAMILIES WHO ARE SUFFERING ANY PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILLNESS, DISTRESS OR POVERTY DURING OR AS A RESULT OF PREGNANCY OR FOLLOWING AN ABORTION, MISCARRIAGE, COT DEATH, STILL BIRTH, LOSS OF A CHILD OR SEXUAL ABUSE;3.4 THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH MAY CONVENIENTLY BE CARRIED ON IN CONNECTION WITH THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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