Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

CHANGE OF SCENE 

Change of Scene provides an outdoor learning environment to disadvantaged children and young people from Surrey and Hampshire who are struggling in education. Under predominantly one-to-one care young people learn animal care, horticulture and other skills; through nurture and hard work, we strive to build self-esteem and resilience to help young people cope with all of life's challenges.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board is completely female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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.changeofscene.org.uk

mail@changeofscene.org.uk

01252 794960

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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
31/03/23£219£236£-16n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/22£314£217£98n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£216£224£-8n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/20£134£158£-24n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/19£210£148£61n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/18£93£117£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£112£88£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£82£81£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£99£65£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£59£37£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£35£32£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£49£32£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£56£17£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£22£15£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£33£22£11£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, Surrey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
Community Foundation for Surrey£61,151
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Henry Smith Charity£18,855
National Lottery Community Fund£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Feasibility Study
£6,250 10/01/2022
2
Funding for a feasibility study regarding the relocation of a charity providing an outdoor learning environment for vulnerable young people.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Core Costs
£10,000 29/10/2021
8
Funding towards the essential running costs of a charity supporting young people on the margins of the education system in south west Surrey.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Funding towards three years' running costs of a charity providing support and services to disadvantaged young people to re-engage in mainstream education, in Surrey
£18,855 04/10/2021
36
Funding towards three years' running costs of a charity providing support and services to disadvantaged young people to re-engage in mainstream education, in Surrey
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Change of Scene
£18,855 23/09/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of a charity providing support services for children and young people from disadvantaged communities to re-engage in mainstream education, in Surrey.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£10,000 23/04/2021
Core Costs
Community Foundation for Surrey - Contingency fund
£4,000 21/01/2021
To create an Emergency Contingency Fund for young people across Surrey to receive educational and social support at Change of Scene.
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - Mental Wellbeing
£10,034 28/07/2020
10
Essential running costs to enable an alternative educational provider to offer additional sessions to vulnerable young people
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£10,000 07/05/2020
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Site Maintenance
£4,000 22/04/2020
0
The organisation will use the funding to undertake important site maintenance in the outdoor spaces. This will allow the group to continue providing activities for young people with additional needs ....more
Community Foundation for Surrey - Shortfall Cover
£12,012 23/10/2019
12
Essential running costs for for a charity which supports young people who are at risk of school exclusion.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Early Intervention Fund
£2,946 31/01/2019
11
Early Intervention Fund for a charity which supports young people who are at risk of school exclusion.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Change of Scene
£3,708 19/11/2018
We want to renovate and replace the housing of our animals and buy feed and routine medicine for one year.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Change of Scene
£18,570 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of a project in Surrey providing support to disadvantaged young people to help them re-engage with mainstream education
Community Foundation for Surrey - Core Costs
£5,000 20/06/2018
10
Core costs involved in running Change of Scene.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£3,799 20/06/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Electrical Safety / Fire Safety Project
£5,797 23/08/2017
12
This project will use the funding to update their fire and electrical safety systems for the facilities which supports children and young people with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Horticulturist
£3,600 09/12/2016
12
Extending the AQA Unit Award scheme to include horticultural activities to provide the opportunity for disadvantaged children to gain recognised qualifications and to build their life skills.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Assisting Disadvantaged Children to Achieve Recognised Qualifications
£5,200 21/10/2016
11
An AQA Unit Award scheme focussed on outdoor practical learning that will provide the opportunity for young disadvantaged children to gain recognised qualifications.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Change of Scene
£18,300 04/12/2014
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support and services to disadvantaged young people in Surrey to help them re-engage in mainstream education
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-51
  • TANYA DAS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Teacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/07/2008, number: 1124989
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/12/2007, number: 06448598
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
  • 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
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

C/O Tremarga Cottage
Browns Walk
Rowledge
Surrey
Gu10 4BE

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE: IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO PROVIDEFACILITIES, ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, EDUCATION AND RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNGPEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 18 LIVING IN THE COUNTIES OF HAMPSHIRE OR SURREY OR IN THE AREA OFGREATER LONDON WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, SEX, DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIALAND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCHYOUNG PERSONS AND DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO BETTERPARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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