Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

SHINEY ADVICE AND RESOURCE PROJECT 

Provision of welfare rights, benefit entitlement and debt advice services. Signposting to services providing specialist advice on housing, employment or legal issues.Education and training courses, collection point for credit union.Community development for the local community and support for local community groups.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 and a Community Foundation and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 26 years

www.shineyadvice.org.uk

general@shineyadvice.org.uk

01913856687

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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£202£407£-206n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£444£373£72n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£412£289£123n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£281£249£32n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£295£245£50n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/18£247£263£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£366£317£49£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£262£275£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£240£227£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£204£183£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£142£139£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£89£81£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£75£102£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£82£109£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£69£64£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£6£54£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£110£100£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£130£150£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£151£145£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£165£184£-19£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 6 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Sunderland,

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
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Virgin Money Foundation£30,000
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£28,500
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£15,000
Co-Operative Group£10,998
Power to Change£8,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Power to Change - LTW - ShARP - Shiney Advice & Resource Project
£8,000 04/07/2023
360G-ptc-gr-17543LTW - ShARP - Shiney Advice & Resource Project
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Shiney Advice & Resource Project (ShARP)
£180,000 15/03/2023
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation providing support and advice for people from disadvantaged communities in the Coalfields area of Sunderland, Tyne and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Shiney Advice and Resource Centre (ShARP)
£6,210 23/10/2021
Our project will help local people who have been affected by Covid-19. We will offer space to talk by developing our community kitchen area, so people can meet, cook and share meals together.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to ShARP (Shiney Advice and Resource Project)
£1,500 24/06/2021
Core costs to support the delivery of benefits/welfare advice in Sunderland
Co-Operative Group - Grant to ShARP
£4,788 24/10/2020
Last year 12,000 people used our services. We would like to increase our activities, supporting friendship and wellbeing in the centre.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - the charity's running costs
£10,000 09/04/2020
the charity's running costs
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - the charity's running costs
£5,000 09/04/2020
the charity's running costs
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to ShARP
£30,000 15/10/2019
24
Shiney Advice and Resource Project is a well-established community anchor based in Shiney Row in Houghton-le-Spring. The award is over two years and is a contribution to vital core running costs.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - For the running costs of a project providing support and advise to disadvantaged people in the Coalfields are of Sunderland Yr 1
£27,000 01/04/2019
For the running costs of a project providing support and advise to disadvantaged people in the Coalfields are of Sunderland Yr 1
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Shiney Advice & Resource Project
£75,000 13/03/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support and advice to people in a disadvantaged area of Sunderland
National Lottery Community Fund - Enterprising Volunteers @ShARP
£9,960 23/11/2018
12
This funding will be used to pay for an enterprise and volunteer co-ordinator to help improve the financial sustainability of their services, including the community library. This will provide new ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - ShARP -Focusing on our community
£10,000 14/11/2018
ShARP -Focusing on our community
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 24/10/2018
Staying ShARP and Moving On
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - ESA - Energy Support & Advice
£8,680 09/03/2018
ESA - Energy Support & Advice
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - ShINEY Volunteers - Rewards for All
£3,000 30/11/2017
ShINEY Volunteers - Rewards for All
County Durham Community Foundation - Debt advice
£3,000 31/10/2017
To support the work of the organisation.
National Lottery Community Fund - ShARP-Community Reading Room Project
£9,825 06/09/2017
12
The project will provide reading rooms to enable local people, children and young people to access library facilities, reading sessions and volunteering opportunities.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Fresh Start
£15,000 26/07/2017
Fresh Start
Tudor Trust - Grant to Shiney Advice and Resource Project
£34,000 15/11/2016
12
over one year as continuation funding towards the manager's salary at a community advice centre in Sunderland
Comic Relief - (Advice on Prescription) Community & Financial Advice in Health Settings in Sunderland Coalfields
£122,838 30/09/2015
36
One fifth of the people living in Sunderland's former coalfields area experience high levels of material deprivation and many suffer from poor mental health as a direct consequence. This innovative ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Shiney Advice and Resource Project
£100,000 19/07/2013
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the manager's post and other costs at this advice and community centre in a former coalfields area of Sunderland
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to SHARP (Shiney Advice & Resource Project)
£16,000 31/07/2012
the salary of the Cafe Co-ordinator
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 49-73
  • KATH LEVEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Team Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/11/1997, number: 1065786
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/05/2003, number: 04769232
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 3 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

17 Beatrice Terrace
Shiney Row
Houghton le Spring
Sunderland
Tyne And Wear
DH4 4QW

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY LIVING IN HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING

Defined Area of Benefit:

HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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