Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

CREATIVE LIVING CENTRE 

Creative arts; Health & wellbeing Groups; Saturday Evening social; support groups; volunteer training scheme; Complementary therapies; Art; music; Healthy Eating Course; Tai Chi; Yoga; meditation
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 gender 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: 27 years

creativelivingcentre.org.uk

admin@creativelivingcentre.org.uk

01616967501

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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£421£376£44n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£389£330£59n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£339£311£27n/an/an/an/an/a29
31/03/20*£287£255£32n/an/an/an/an/a36
31/03/19£238£234£4n/an/an/an/an/a36
31/03/18£188£189£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£183£159£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£197£210£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£182£225£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£260£241£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£187£155£32£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/12£134£129£5£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/11£117£128£-11£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/10£131£123£8£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/09*£99£93£6£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/08£102£127£-25£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/07*£140£121£20£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/06*£133£130£3£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/05*£112£130£-18£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/04*£146£213£-67£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 20 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£382,817
Henry Smith Charity£149,000
DCMS£64,258
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Forever Manchester£11,943
Lloyds Bank Foundation£5,591
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 29/07/2022
Transforming the Creative Living Centre into a Professional and financially stable charity.
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£4,188 24/11/2021
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Cycling project, with a focus on older ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Creative Living Centre, Prestwich
£1,744 23/10/2021
We work with local people to improve their mental wellbeing, through classes, therapies, workshops and one-to-one support. We involve community members as volunteers and peer mentors.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Creative Living Centre
£149,000 23/09/2021
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towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support to people with mental health issues in Bury and Greater Manchester.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Living Centre 2
£382,817 16/04/2021
The group aims to deliver mental health support to adults in Bury and engage people with lived experience in the design and delivery of services and introduce an outreach service for grassroots ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Creative Living Centre - 05/03/21
£1,250 17/03/2021
Core Funding
Forever Manchester - Mental Health Support
£11,943 21/09/2020
Mental health support service expansion
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£11,943 21/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£52,315 02/09/2020
"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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Creative Living Centre
£5,591 24/07/2020
Grant to Creative Living Centre meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Creative Living Centre
£72,383 11/04/2018
36
the funding of the Creating Better Chances project, including the salary of a Project Worker, sessional staff, administrative support and travel costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Creative Living Centre
£2,577 29/11/2017
We wish to buy garden equipment for our new allotment to provide healthy food for centre lunches and involve local people in gardening.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Living Centre
£323,651 20/09/2017
36
This three-year project supports adults with mental health issues and those experiencing social isolation to take a more active role in their local community. Through using volunteers and peer ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Creative Living Centre
£72,383 07/10/2015
36
the funding of the Creating Better Chances project, including the salary of a Project Worker, sessional staff, administrative support and travel costs
Tudor Trust - Grant to Creative Living Centre
£70,000 06/07/2015
24
over two years as continuation funding towards salaries, and sessional worker and activity costs, at a centre supporting people with mental health issues in Prestwich, Greater Manchester
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Creative Living Centre
£23,300 28/01/2013
The Creative Living Centre supports adults who are experiencing emotional or mental distress and offers support to enable people to overcome the challenges within their lives, thus improving social ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-71
  • CLAIRE DUFFY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Health Development Coordinator
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/09/1997, number: 1064628
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/09/1997, number: 03442518
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR20: 40 days late, AR16: 10 days late, AR15: 77 days late, AR13: 6 days late, AR09: 2 days late, AR07: 17 days late, AR06: 58 days late, AR05: 73 days late, AR04: 139 days late,
Main office

1A Rectory Lane
Prestwich
MANCHESTER
M25 1BP

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND TO ASSIST RELIEVING PERSONS SUFFERING FROM EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT; AND TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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