About Us

Find out about our Purpose, Culture and Values, and our Funding Model below. Or click on the links on the right to find out more.

Our purpose

The 350 or more young people in our community who regularly attend the Hogarth’s Youth Programme are the Charity’s single most important stakeholder. The Charity exists to serve them at a critical time in their personal development, as best it can and for as long as it can. Put simply, our young people come first.

Hogarth Charitable Trust not only represents the young people and their passion, but we replicate it in our own ethos and practice. We put the young people at the forefront of our work and their passion and commitment drives the Trust. The Trustees are deeply committed to youth work in terms of informal education, life skills, and youth equality.

Those who attend the youth programme come from very diverse backgrounds, but they all prize access to a safe and secure place outside of school and home. They are equally united in their determination to make a better future for themselves via an informal education which builds not only key life skills, but also nurtures lasting friendships. By helping themselves and each other, they are best placed to enter adulthood as fully participating citizens, either transiting directly into the job market or higher education.

The Board of Trustees works alongside the Youth Team to ensure that it is appropriately resourced and the programme which the Team designs is as rich and as varied as possible. Feedback from the young people helps to tailor the programme in any given year. Key deliverables are agreed at the start of each year and then monitored monthly.

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Our history

Meet the Trustees

Values and Culture

We are a small community focussed Charity which exists to help young people in the London Borough of Hounslow. Our core values are clear and prompt communications, fairness, transparency, accountability and respect for all Centre staff and users. We prioritise the safeguarding of all Centre users – it is our license to operate. The Centre must be a happy and warm place for staff to work

and for users to participate in activities. Our staff should feel rightly proud about their work for the Charity. We also care for the environment and make every effort to minimise our carbon footprint and waste.

Our financial values are built on the principles of conservatism and caution. Financial resilience enabled the Charity not only to survive the challenges of Covid in 2020-22, but to build back better.

We value diversity and have built a very diverse ecosystem of youth programme attendees, licensees, Centre activities, partners, donors and sponsors. We have an absolute zero tolerance for any and all forms of bullying, racism, sexism and religious bigotry. Leading by example, the Charity’s trustees and leadership team are the organisation’s key culture carriers. Our policy documents provide more details.

Sponsors and Donors

Friends of the Hogarth

“Hogarth lets me play with my friends in a safe space and the staff make sure we all have a good time.”

CJ. Aged 13

Our funding model

The Charity began its independent youth service in January 2019 with a small capital reserve. Our funding model has evolved and now has five key components:

License fees: The Charity licenses spaces in the Centre to small, community orientated businesses which each pay a monthly license fee. Space is also licensed for ad hoc events. In a normal year, after Centre operating and maintenance costs, these license fees generate an annual surplus which contributes towards the following year’s youth programme.

Donations: We have built a network of more than 300 Friends of the Hogarth. Many individuals donate generously either on a one-off or regular basis.

Sponsorships: Small local businesses either sponsor our annual fund raising event or specific parts of our youth programme.

Grants: We rely on multiple grants, primarily from the London Borough of Hounslow. These grants may support holiday programmes e.g. the Holiday Activities and Food grants or specific project work with local schools e.g. the Thriving Communities Revenue Fund grant.

Annual Fund Raiser: We did our first virtual fund raising event during the Covid lock down of 2021. We now do an annual summer wine tasting at the Centre for more than 60 local residents. Net proceeds fund our Summer Residential.

The Charity continues to look for local partnerships and funding opportunities to sustain and expand the youth services and welcomes any suggestions.