Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

Poor Liquidity: -1
Good Reserves: +1Good reserves management: +3
Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 5

THE SANDWELL COMMUNITY CARING TRUST

We offer a range of activities in our daycentres such as bingo, day trips, quizs, cooking, sensory room and many more. Activities are based around our service users needs and requests.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Established: 23 years
(27 years as a company)

www.sandwellcct.org.uk

enquiries@sandwellcct.org.uk

01215532722

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	*	£14,238	£15,126	£-888	£0	£8,570	£8,197	6.5	461	0
31/03/22	*	£13,995	£14,069	£-75	£0	£7,635	£7,261	6.2	443	0
31/03/21		£14,616	£14,700	£-84	£0	£4,752	£4,379	3.6	473	0
31/03/20		£13,792	£13,407	£385	£0	£6,750	£6,377	5.7	477	0
31/03/19		£13,355	£13,136	£219	£0	£5,041	£4,667	4.3	504	5
31/03/18		£12,542	£12,707	£-165	£0	£4,461	£4,087	3.9	474	0
31/03/17	*	£12,697	£12,859	£-161	£0	£4,222	£3,258	3	485	0
31/03/16	*	£14,214	£13,495	£718	£0	£3,679	£2,716	2.4	538	0
31/03/15	*	£14,682	£14,389	£293	£88	£2,398	£1,434	1.2	433	0
31/03/14	*	£15,283	£14,940	£343	£154	£666	£-297	-0.2	456	0
31/03/13	*	£14,546	£14,980	£-434	£236	£-1,408	£-2,610	-2.1	397	0
31/03/12	*	£11,090	£10,668	£422	£165	£908	£-716	-0.8	341	0
31/03/11	*	£11,199	£10,930	£269	£166	£985	£-639	-0.7	351	0
31/03/10		£11,309	£10,689	£620	£79	£2,334	£1,156	1.3	337	0
31/03/09		£10,062	£10,650	£-588	£59	£1,714	£537	0.6	316	0
31/03/08		£7,995	£8,253	£-258	£168	£2,302	£1,125	1.6	145	0
31/03/07		£7,887	£7,259	£627	£121	£2,560	£1,383	2.3	276	0
31/03/06	*	£6,634	£6,556	£78	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£5,594	£5,700	£-106	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£5,010	£4,752	£258	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 34%
Liabilities/Income: 30%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 6.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Disability

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Sandwell, Torbay,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

461 employees

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department for Work and Pensions - FAYAMASK LIMMITED
£42,269	01/04/2022	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
Department for Work and Pensions - FAYAMASK
£24,744	01/04/2021	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
Big Issue Invest - Physical health
£150,000	13/07/2017	Vulnerable older people including those with dementia

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 53-79

GEOFFREY WALKER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Executive, Other trusteeships: THE WARWICKSHIRE MASONIC CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION LIMITED, WARWICKSHIRE MASONIC BENEVOLENT FUND, SANDWELL VALLEY SCHOOL, WARWICKSHIRE FREEMASONS' CHARITABLE FOUNDATION,

KRISTINA JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Clinical Nursing Specialist And Director, Other trusteeships: LIPOEDEMA UK, LIPOEDEMA UK,

MIM HALL (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Teacher

SHEILA ANNE ROGERS Appointed: 1998, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/04/2001, number: 1086162
Registered at Companies House on 02/12/1996, number: 03286106

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Care Quality Commission

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; AR23: 27 days late, AR22: 58 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 4 days late, AR14: 112 days late, AR13: 70 days late, AR12: 29 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR06: 1 days late,

Main office

SANDWELL COMMUNITY CARING TRUST
WEST PLAZA 9TH FLOOR
144 HIGH STREET
WEST BROMWICH
B70 6JJ

Objectives

THE TRUST OBJECTS ARE THE RELIEF OF INDIVIDUALS , PARTICULARLY THOSE RESIDENT IN OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL OF SANDWELL OR ANY OF ITS NEIGHBOURING COUNCILS, WHO BY REASON OF OLD AGE , OR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILLNESS, OR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HANDICAP, REQUIRE SPECIAL CARE AND ATTENTION( THE BENEFICIARIES)

Defined Area of Benefit:

MB OF SANDWELL

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