Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

REACH VOLUNTEERING 

To provide no or low-cost access to skills for resource-poor charities and public organisations, enabling them to reach their potential. To help people with career skills to use their talents and experience to secure a fulfilling volunteering role, in turn allowing charities to thrive and prosper.To provide a trustee recruitment service to charities and to professionals looking for a board role.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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: 44 years

www.reachvolunteering.org.uk

info@reachvolunteering.org.uk

02039439901

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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
31/12/22£449£449£0n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/21£346£296£50n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/20£531£448£83£19£263£2436.5820
31/12/19£499£453£46n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/12/18£470£431£38£0£0£0n/a023
31/12/17£400£452£-52£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£431£390£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£500£404£96£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£453£480£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£379£306£73£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£320£388£-69£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£396£480£-83£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£500£530£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£512£506£6£85£221£621.570
31/12/08£494£510£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£495£489£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£422£422£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£442£456£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£419£496£-77£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 15 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£100,000
Dulverton Trust£60,000
National Lottery Community Fund£48,284
City Bridge Trust£31,195
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Dulverton Trust - Core funding
£60,000 19/10/2022
Core funding
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Embedding equity through volunteering
£20,000 16/05/2022
Reach Volunteering is the leading skills-based volunteering charity and the UK’s single biggest source of trustees for the voluntary sector. This grant will support Reach to work with grassroots ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 03/12/2021
Building charities' capacity and capability and strengthening their governance
Tudor Trust - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£2,000 11/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
National Lottery Community Fund - Skills-based volunteers to help charities manage Covid-19 impact
£48,284 23/07/2020
6
Reach Volunteering (RV) will use the funding to cover costs of delivering their existing volunteer matching service and provide extra capacity to deal with the increased levels of demand.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£15,870 19/05/2020
A grant of £15,870 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£15,325 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £15,325, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£60,000 28/05/2019
Reach Regional development in the North of England and the Midlands
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£294,100 21/03/2019
60
£294,100 over five years (£61,300; £61,000; £59,300; £58,300; £54,200) to meet the salary and on-costs of the pan-London volunteering programme.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 18-19
£10,609 03/09/2018
The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£31,000 02/02/2017
12
over one year towards research into and development of resources on increasing the effectiveness of skills-based volunteering for charities
John Ellerman Foundation - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£90,000 29/09/2016
24
Towards the core costs of their work connecting charities and skilled professional volunteers through the digital iReach platform.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£180,000 14/09/2016
36
Towards core costs to enable voluntary and community organisations to flourish by extending the volume, range and quality of skills-based volunteering in the UK.
Dulverton Trust - core costs
£75,000 08/06/2016
core costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£90,000 24/05/2016
£90,000 (2 x £45,000) for a further two years’ contribution to the salaries and operational costs of the TrusteeWorks service for London.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£125,000 13/02/2014
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the core costs of an organisation which connects charities with skilled volunteers providing a range of short and long-term support
Dulverton Trust - development of iReach online volunteering
£33,000 23/10/2013
development of iReach online volunteering
Nesta - AC00275
£50,000 04/02/2013
Innovation in Giving programme grant to Reach UK Grant Ref AC00275
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Reach Volunteering
£120,000 29/01/2013
Towards the cost of offering the TrusteeWorks service to smaller voluntary organisations with limited resources.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-65
  • GUS LEON ALSTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Leader And Consultant In Small Charity Sector
  • KAR WAI NG Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Service Designer
  • PRIYANKA BEDIA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of Strategy London Screen Academy
  • RACHELL FOX Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Marketing Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/11/1979, number: 278837
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/10/1979, number: 01452482
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
  • 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
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

7, Bell Yard,
London
WC2A 2JR

Objectives

TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT FOR VOLUNTARY AND PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS THROUGH TRAINING AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOLUNTARY WORK WITH THE APPROPRIATE ORGANISATIONS, AND OTHERWISE ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST PEOPLE WITH PROFESSIONAL OR CAREER SKILLS TO GIVE TIME AND USE THEIR SKILLS IN CONNECTION WITH THE FURTHERANCE OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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