Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 9
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

CENTREPOINT SOHO 

Centrepoint is the UK's leading charity for homeless young people. It supports more than 15,000 homeless 16-25 year olds into a home and a job every year. Centrepoint works directly in London, Manchester, Yorkshire and the North East of England, and partners with other organisations across the UK. We also influence government policy with the overall aim of ending youth homelessness.
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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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 39 years

www.centrepoint.org.uk

supportercare@centrepoint.org

0800 587 5158

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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£47,696£47,495£201£13,754£43,372£36,2799.2580170
31/03/22£50,248£39,773£10,475£11,375£43,171£34,22710.3462384
31/03/21£44,022£37,927£6,095£10,423£32,696£28,7669.1605164
31/03/20£44,379£38,890£5,489£10,626£26,601£22,7777478250
31/03/19£34,003£32,793£1,210£8,454£21,112£18,2016.7459136
31/03/18£32,709£31,658£1,051£7,827£19,902£17,6336.74430
31/03/17£32,586£28,727£3,859£7,487£18,851£16,83773800
31/03/16*£27,295£26,267£1,028£6,273£14,992£13,23663660
31/03/15£21,777£22,449£-672£6,174£13,679£11,3606.13010
31/03/14£20,565£18,345£2,220£4,301£14,351£11,4817.52880
31/03/13£19,110£16,145£2,965£3,856£12,131£9,2276.92350
31/03/12£17,235£14,796£2,439£3,382£9,166£6,7835.52310
31/03/11£18,151£17,089£1,062£3,016£6,727£4,9553.52570
31/03/10£16,598£16,446£152£2,270£5,665£4,7303.52540
31/03/09£16,699£15,649£1,050£1,696£5,513£4,8123.72490
31/03/08£16,630£16,421£209£1,618£4,463£3,9752.92910
31/03/07£16,093£15,732£361£1,409£4,254£3,98432590
31/03/06£13,615£13,464£151£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£12,660£12,165£495£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£12,307£11,911£396£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 29.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 29%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £140,000-£150,000
Liabilities/Assets: 30%
Liabilities/Income: 38%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 84%
Reserves/Spending: 9.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 580 employees
  • 170 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
Department for Education£171,065
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,000
City Bridge Trust£107,100
Wolfson Foundation£80,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Core work - Centrepoint
£15,000 13/12/2023
One off donation towards core work.
Joseph Levy Foundation - Core funding
£5,000 03/11/2023
To support the charity's work in supporting young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Centrepoint
£150 20/03/2023
to help give young people who are homeless a future
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Centrepoint
£150 20/04/2022
to help give homeless young people a future
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Centrepoint
£2,600 21/12/2021
Donation from Mark Urquhart - in response to Christmas 2021 appeal.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Centrepoint
£2,000 26/03/2021
From supporter 142898
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Centrepoint
£150 15/03/2021
to help give homeless young people a future
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 24/11/2020
towards the charity's work supporting the homeless
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£150,000 06/11/2020
Greater Manchester Future Foundations
Comic Relief - Centrepoint Recovery Funding
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Centrepoint
£80,000 11/06/2020
Refurbishment of Manchester support centre
GMSP Foundation - Grant to Centrepoint
£15,000 06/04/2020
Support towards Centrepoint's Parents and Children services
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Centrepoint
£150 03/04/2020
To help give homeless young people a future
Department for Education - Apprenticeships Participation 16 - 18
£8,600 01/04/2020
To fund the provision of apprenticeship training.
Department for Education - Apprenticeships Participation 18+
£162,465 01/04/2020
To fund the provision of apprenticeship training.
Department for Work and Pensions - FSF Partnership CENTREPOINT
£39,855 01/04/2020
To move claimants either into work or closer to work.
Trust for London - Centrepoint
£40,000 05/03/2020
12
This funding is for delivering a youth-led research project on the impact of Universal Credit (UC) on young people in supported accommodation. Taking a participatory approach, the project will ....more
OVO Foundation - Future Builders - project management
£26,131 17/12/2019
This grant was used to support EYH with the further roll out of Future Builders, as well as monitoring, working groups and legacy
Greater London Authority - London Family Fund
£20,000 01/10/2019
The Family Fund supports organisations that are bringing diverse families together for support and common purpose. The fund aims to improve parents social networks, reduce social isolation and ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Centrepoint Works
£36,441 24/09/2019
18
The Centrepoint Works programme will equip homeless and at-risk young people in Bradford with the skills and confidence needed to secure and sustain a tenancy in the long-term.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Centrepoint Soho
£107,100 25/07/2019
24
£107,100 over two years (£52,900, £54,200) towards the salary and on costs of a f/t Dual Diagnosis Worker and a wellbeing activities budget for young people.
DCMS - Women Side by Side
£9,955 01/02/2019
What: Through this project we will establish the first womens only peer support group at Centrepoint that focusses specifically on the mental wellbeing of young homeless women (aged 16-25) and those ....more
Greater London Authority - Young Londoners Fund
£148,657 01/01/2019
The Art of the Possible project will employ an Artist in Residence to work with homeless young people aged 16-21 in boroughs across London. Co-producing a calendar of arts activities with young ....more
Walcot Foundation - CP Lambeth Works Programme
£50,000 27/11/2018
24
CP Lambeth Works Programme
OVO Foundation - Future Builders - project management
£23,458 20/06/2018
Future Builders has been rolled out nationwide with support from End Youth Homelessness, an umbrella organisation supporting UK-based youth homelessness charities. This grant was used to support the ....more
Comic Relief - Mind Your Head
£149,736 28/03/2018
36
Young homeless men are at higher risk of poor mental health. Their unstable housing situation is often compounded by use of drugs or alcohol. At the same time, stereotypical images of strong ....more
LandAid Charitable Trust - Manchester Move On Property Refurbishment
£51,042 22/12/2017
7
Centrepoint is purchasing 10 Move On Properties in Manchester, we are applying for funding from LandAid for 3 of these. Each property has 2 bedrooms, creating, in total, accommodation to support 20 ....more
OVO Foundation - OVO Gives Back - 2017-2018
£20,000 01/08/2017
This grant was used to launch 'OVO Digital Arts scheme' to engage young people who missed out on formal education.
Walcot Foundation - Workwise and 1:1 programme
£25,000 18/07/2017
12
Workwise and 1:1 programme
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Purchasing a portable street football court
£10,400 21/04/2017
Towards the cost of purchasing a second-hand portable football pitch in order to enable the Street Football Association to enhance its ability to deliver football/physical activity and by doing so ....more
London Borough of Barnet - Grant to Centrepoint
£4,775 06/03/2017
Exercise equipment for new gymnasium
Trust for London - Centrepoint
£27,000 02/03/2017
24
The funding is to support Centrepoint to research how the Youth Obligation affects disadvantaged young people's likelihood of engaging in education or employment. We will use the research to ....more
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to Centrepoint
£49,310 06/12/2016
12
Grant to employ two learning support workers. Their role is to work with the young people who are being accommodated by Centrepoint in Sunderland to help them into work based apprenticeships.
Ministry of Justice - Prison Reform And Better Outcomes For Prisoners And Their Families
£54,000 01/04/2016
12
Supporting young people to support homelessness/ housing advice to young people
Comic Relief - Upgrade Your World: Youth Homelessness UpData - future-proofing youth homelessness data, display and analysis
£20,000 27/01/2016
3
This is linked to a bigger initiative around creating a single, definitive youth homelessness databank (Youth Homelessness UpData) which can then be mined to identify propensity for long-term ....more
Greater London Authority - Grant to Centrepoint
£20,000 16/06/2015
To help create a pop-up café in existing homeless resource Centre
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Centrepoint Soho
£208,400 27/11/2014
36
£208,400 over three years (£56,000; £76,000; £76,400) towards the salaries of two Dual Diagnostic Practitioners and related costs.
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Centrepoint County Durham (North East)
£218,363 16/07/2013
To fund Youth Homelessness North East, a network of individuals and organisations working to end youth homelessness in the North East.
Walcot Foundation - Workwise
£60,000 16/07/2013
Workwise
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Centrepoint County Durham (North East)
£83,762 21/05/2013
To employ a business development manager to expand services for young people in the North East.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Centrepoint
£86,700 14/03/2013
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a Development Worker running a rent deposit scheme to help homeless young people into accommodation in Northumberland
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Centrepoint (North East)
£60,000 11/12/2012
Towards a preventative programme delivering accredited independent living skills to young people at risk of homelessness.
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Centrepoint (North East)
£12,400 23/11/2012
Towards a regional research and policy campaign to understand the impacts and implications of welfare reforms on the housing circumstances of low income households in the North East.
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Centrepoint County Durham (North East)
£19,820 23/11/2012
To develop resources for an awareness raising project, run by Centrepoint's Youth Educators.
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Centrepoint County Durham (Tyne & Wear)
£107,393 15/05/2012
Towards a family mediation service to help homeless young people try to re-build their relationships with their families in Sunderland.
Walcot Foundation - Long Term Monitoring Grant
£5,000 20/04/2012
Long Term Monitoring Grant
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Centrepoint County Durham (North East)
£18,000 23/09/2011
Towards the regional youth homelessness network development worker for the North East of England.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (15)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-66
  • CLARE MONTAGU Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer
  • SYMON ELLIOTT (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Partner, Executive Search
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/08/1985, number: 292411
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/07/1985, number: 01929421
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Homes England
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
20 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from YOUNG PEOPLE'S SUPPORT FOUNDATION LIMITED on 16/09/2021
  • Asset transfer in from NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HOMELESS EYECARE on 08/12/2021
Main office

CENTREPOINT
CENTRAL HOUSE
25 CAMPERDOWN STREET
LONDON
E1 8DZ

Objectives

(4.1 THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: 4.1.1 TO PROVIDE CARE, SUPPORT, ACCOMMODATION AND RESETTLEMENT FOR YOUNG PERSONS AND SUCH OTHER PERSONS IN NEED AS THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE WHO ARE VULNERABLE OR HOMELESS OR IN NEED OF HELP IN ACQUIRING A SETTLED WAY OF LIFE; AND 4.1.2 TO ASSIST, EDUCATE AND FURTHER THE INTERESTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND SUCH OTHER PERSONS IN NEED AS THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE; AND 4.1.3 TO RELIEVE ANY NEED OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND SUCH OTHER PERSONS IN NEED AS THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE RESULTING FROM PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL REASONS OR REASONS OF SOCIAL INFIRMITY AND PROVIDE ANY OTHER FORM OF AID WHICH IS CHARITABLE IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY OBTAIN A SETTLED WAY OF LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY AND TO ENABLE THEM TO DEVELOP INTO MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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