Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

ST. MATTHEW'S PROJECT 

The St. Matthews Project provides a safe and encouraging environment where 3 to 25 year-olds can come together and enjoy structured football sessions and other activities. We help children and young people living mainly in the Tulse Hill and Coldharbour wards of Lambeth fulfil their potential and have a real impact on their community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Established: 13 years

www.thesmp.net

leedema@aol.com

02086732198

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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
31/08/22£373£277£96n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/08/21£202£183£19n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/08/20£211£177£34n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/08/19*£149£142£6n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/08/18*£133£101£32£0£0£0n/a06
31/08/17£81£111£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£140£100£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£116£93£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£110£90£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£95£86£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£74£68£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 8 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lambeth,

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
The Berkeley Foundation£189,490
Peter Minet Trust£90,000
Walcot Foundation£57,886
National Lottery Community Fund£55,311
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Berkeley Foundation - Development Fund grant
£105,000 30/08/2023
Multi-year grant towards a youth mental health project in Lambeth (3 years)
National Lottery Community Fund - MH St Matthew's Summer Sports Sessions
£9,375 28/07/2023
The funding will be used to run a summer sports scheme for 11-18 year olds. The project aims to engage with local children who have become inactive and isolated during school holidays - by providing ....more
The Berkeley Foundation - Cost of Living Grant
£5,000 26/04/2023
One-off, unrestricted grant
Walcot Foundation - Moving On Year 2
£29,886 16/03/2023
St Matthews Project (SMP) is a Brockwell Park-based football and youth project benefiting approximately 300 young people living in the Rush Common (Previously Tulse Hill) and Coldharbour wards each ....more
Walcot Foundation - Cost of Living Top-Up Grant
£3,000 18/11/2022
Cost of Living Top Up Grant awarded to support small/medium-size organisations with additional costs incurred due to the cost of living crisis.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Matthew's Project
£2,500 12/07/2022
towards the costs of a day trip to Brighton Beach for 45 children from disadvantaged communities in the London Borough of Lambeth.
The Berkeley Foundation - Community Investment Fund grant
£56,490 19/04/2022
Improving Youth Mental Health 2 grant (Year 1 of 1)
Walcot Foundation - Moving On
£25,000 15/03/2022
12
St Matthews Project (SMP) is a Brockwell Park-based football and youth project benefiting 200 young people living in the Tulse Hill and Coldharbour wards each week. This application is to support ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 16/07/2021
SMP 2021-22
National Lottery Community Fund - SMP 2020
£45,936 29/03/2021
11
The project is using funding to make their Football Development Officer full time and increasing the hours of their Admin Worker so they can increase delivery and also allow them to do more work on ....more
The Berkeley Foundation - Mental Health Outreach Worker
£10,000 25/08/2020
One-off grant supporting the recruitment of a Mental Health Outreach Worker
Peter Minet Trust - Grant to St Matthews Project
£90,000 24/03/2020
Unrestricted grant to the organisation
The Berkeley Foundation - Consultancy for long-term financial sustainability
£13,000 22/11/2019
Capacity building grant supporting consultancy costs for the development of a long-term financial sustainability strategy.
Walcot Foundation - Kick Start
£73,794 27/11/2018
36
Kick Start
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St. Matthew's Project
£49,121 14/06/2017
36
To deliver weekly football sessions and parent-toddler sessions to children and young people living in local deprivation in Lambeth. They will gain technical and physical skills, develop protective ....more
Sport England - St Mathew’s Project - Weekly Football and Mentoring Support
£6,772 05/04/2017
15
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled St Mathew’s Project - Weekly Football and Mentoring Support. This project is a Association Football ....more
Walcot Foundation - Football Plus Scheme
£60,000 02/07/2014
Football Plus Scheme
Sport England - 16-Plus Football Development Scheme
£14,625 20/09/2011
Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled '16-Plus Football Development Scheme'. This project lists its main activity as Association Football.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-63
  • LEKAN OJUMU Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Programme Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/03/2011, number: 1140964
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/09/2009, number: 07007350
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
11 returns made; AR19: 92 days late, AR18: 26 days late,
Main office

90 GASKARTH ROAD
LONDON
SW12 9NW

Objectives

1 TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN THE SOUTH BRIXTON AREA BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCED AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPAPCITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVISUALSB ADVANCING EDUCATIONC RELIEVING UNEMPLYMENTD PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE SOUTH BRIXTON AREA WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON FO THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, PVOERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.2 THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION, IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 6 AND 25 BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL.

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