YOU MAKE IT

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
We run a 6-month long You Make It holistic programme empowering young, unemployed and underemployed women, with the confidence, networks, skills, knowledge and experiences needed to break out of poverty into financially independent lives with reflect greater integration with the social and cultural life of their city. Beneficiaries are largely from Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
People

4 Trustee(s)
50 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
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£80k to £90k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Other Defined Groups
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Throughout London
Governance
- 15 September 2014: CIO registration
- LWL (Working name)
- LADIES WHO L-EARN (Previous name)
- 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
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
4 Trustee(s)
Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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Liana Rose Shamash | Chair | 15 December 2021 |
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Jen Beardsley | Trustee | 22 April 2024 |
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Fatou Jeng | Trustee | 15 December 2021 |
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KATE O'CONNOR | Trustee | 22 May 2017 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £252.12k | £371.61k | £399.65k | £402.44k | £363.45k | |
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Total expenditure | £229.47k | £288.34k | £278.85k | £365.12k | £409.88k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 27 January 2025 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 27 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 29 January 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 29 January 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 06 December 2022 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 06 December 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 06 October 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 06 October 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 27 January 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 27 January 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 15 SEP 2014 AMENDED ON 29 JUL 2016 as amended on 01 Aug 2022
Charitable objects
(1) For the public benefit, to advance the professional and personal development of East London’s young unemployed and underemployed women – in particular those from non-privileged backgrounds – so that they may enter into and retain meaningful employment. This is done, in particular, but not exclusively, by delivering holistic three to six month programmes either in person or online, which provide participants with: (a) information though interactive workshops, which are focused on developing skills to increase the participant’s employability and wellbeing; (b) advice about learning and earning opportunities through a mentoring programme; and (c) access to work experience and other “hands-on” experience in order to develop job-readiness. (2) For the public benefit, in order to promote racial equality, to design and deliver a programme of interactive anti-racism workshops called You Change It (“YCI”). YCI will principally be delivered (both in person and online) to the employees of other charities, companies and organisations, as well as to individuals, from all backgrounds. Funds raised by YCI will, in part, go back into financially supporting the work described in (1) above. The YCI workshops (the exact number and contents of which may be changed from time to time (therefore this list is not exclusive)) are: (a) story telling by those with lived experiences of being victims of racism (“The Stories Write Themselves”); (b) the history and science of racism and its impact on those living in the UK today(“From Then to Now”); (c) an understanding of what having privilege means and what not having it means (“Check Your Privilege”); (d) developing the confidence to challenge racism at work (“What Would You Say If…?”); (e) support to develop actions which lead to racial equity at work (“Activate Your Allyship”).
Contact information
- Address:
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SHED WORKSPACE 1
8 Lee Street
LONDON
E8 4DY
- Phone:
- 07494737706
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