Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

EDUCATION FUTURES TRUST 

Support to children, young people and families in order to improve life chances; delivery of courses to children young people and vulnerable adults; expertise in outdoor learning; therapeutic work; development and delivery of innovative practice in education; sharing and promoting best practice in education and training. The Education Futures Trust works in Hastings, Rye and the surrounding area.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 12 years

www.educationfuturestrust.org

office@educationfuturestrust.org

01424722241

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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£1,045£929£116£14£1,040£90911.73149
31/03/22£848£793£55£12£924£82012.43142
31/03/21£958£687£270£0£869£74012.92649
31/03/20£840£786£55£0£599£5658.63436
31/03/19£610£591£18£0£544£542112534
31/03/18£575£619£-44£0£526£52410.2170
31/03/17£562£614£-52£0£569£56611.1180
31/03/16*£698£632£66£0£622£62211.8190
31/03/15£869£703£166£5£555£5559.5210
31/03/14£978£717£261£5£390£3886.5130
31/03/13£983£854£129£9£129£1291.890

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 24%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 87%
Reserves/Spending: 11.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 2.8
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 31 employees
  • 49 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Sussex,

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
Comic Relief£182,439
BBC Children in Need£109,382
Lloyds Bank Foundation£62,186
Sussex Community Foundation£32,964
DCMS£31,336
Sport England£23,264
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Education Futures Trust
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£9,985 13/12/2022
Funding was provided to provide a warm space for the local community over the winter period.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£8,993 21/07/2022
Funding was provided towards a series of courses aimed at vulnerable adults.
Sport England - Storm 22
£13,676 24/03/2022
Funding under Sport England's Storm 22 funding programme for a Revenue project titled Storm 22. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£1,000 15/12/2021
This project will provide training and mentoring to a project worker who will deliver money management sessions to disadvantaged children. Children will improve their life skills through developing ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£50,000 08/12/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Education Futures Trust
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£2,281 23/10/2021
We want to supply outdoor learning packs to local children living in poverty, to encourage them to make positive use of the outdoor spaces around so that their mental and physical health improves.
Sport England - TGC CF Mum’s Fit
£9,588 27/08/2021
11
This project will train a YMCA level 2 instructor and employ a play worker for group circuits classes or 1 to 1 sessions of running or kettlebells per week, engaging with 5 inactive mums.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£4,995 17/03/2021
Education Futures Trust support vulnerable Hastings' families who are struggling with food poverty. Funding was provided for food vouchers to enable families taking part in their nutrition course to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,997 10/11/2020
"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
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£4,991 07/09/2020
Funding will support Keyworker salaries, as covid keyworker funding has ceased. The return to school brings a new set of challenges: children need new shoes and school uniforms which are ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Education Futures Trust
£9,936 23/07/2020
Grant to Education Futures Trust meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Comic Relief - Education Futures Trust Recovery Funding
£30,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund a range of positive activities adapted for remote and digital delivery for young people who experience social and economic disadvantage, exacerbated by Covid-19. Young ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£5,000 10/06/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of a charity supporting vulnerable families, children and adults with essential food hampers and practical support in deprived communities in East Sussex
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Food for Now, Thrive Tomorrow
£4,000 06/04/2020
Education Futures Trust strives to improve life chances of local children, families and vulnerable adults in Hastings. As a result of the Coronavirus, the charity is supplying essential items to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Go Wild
£9,995 13/03/2020
11
The funding will be used to deliver after school and holiday activities to children. The project aims to help young people to build their confidence, self-esteem and increase resilience though ....more
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£14,226 28/02/2020
Go Wild
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£7,113 28/02/2020
Go Wild. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year 2019/20
Comic Relief - Building Foundations Together (BFT)
£152,439 06/11/2019
48
The children who will benefit from the project are living in an area ranked as within the 30% most deprived in England. The focus will be on families where parents are isolated, lonely or suffering ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£105,382 26/06/2019
36
A sport and wellbeing programme for young people who experience social and economic disadvantage. Young people will benefit from improved physical health, better emotional health and more positive ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£74,432 22/03/2018
36
to contribute to the salary costs of the Invest Coach who will support those service users leaving mental health facilities or community mental health teams.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Education Futures Trust
£4,917 20/11/2017
7
The Education Futures Trust provides high quality and innovative support and learning tailored to improve the life chances of vulnerable children, families and adults particularly in Hastings area. ....more
Comic Relief - Mind and Motion
£74,861 30/11/2016
24
The project will improve the mental health/well-being of children in Hastings, through engagement in physical activity. Activities will be delivered on four sites across the town targeting specific ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Youth reference group
£3,950 08/08/2016
Feedback Fund 2016
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 38-71
  • ALISON WATERHOUSE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Educational Psychotherapist And Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/03/2012, number: 1146171
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/11/2011, number: 07852922
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from IMAGINE NATION on 05/08/2022
Main office

THE FIRS
ELPHINSTONE ROAD
HASTINGS
EAST SUSSEX
TN34 2AX

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN HASTINGS AND RYE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY SUCH CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HASTINGS AND RYE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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