Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

ACCURO (CARE SERVICES) 

TO PROVIDE RESPITE CARE AND A RANGE OF OTHER SERVICES TO LOCAL CHILDREN/ADULTS WITH A DISABILITY AND THEIR FAMILIES
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

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: 21 years

www.accuro.org.uk

enquiries@accuro.org.uk

01279870297

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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£458£421£37n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22£444£334£111n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£487£307£180n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£360£450£-90n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/19£459£457£2n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/18£429£472£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£534£439£95£0£362£3329.1830
31/03/16*£442£424£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£549£580£-31£15£250£891.9280
31/03/14£540£560£-20£13£281£461280
31/03/13£515£571£-57£13£301£501.1280
31/03/12£565£539£26£12£357£571.3290
31/03/11£615£490£125£14£332£421280
31/03/10£433£348£85£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£311£327£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£313£324£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£294£314£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£335£261£74£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£187£169£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£140£102£39£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 15 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Essex,

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£270,000
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Essex Community Foundation£81,035
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Co-Operative Group£7,907
True Colours Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Accuro
£2,655 21/10/2023
Dunmow Under 19s Youth Group brings together local young people with a disability to make friends and gain confidence. We would like to buy materials for activities and trips in the community.
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Accuro Saturday Play Club
£2,500 05/10/2023
towards running a Saturday play group for children with disabilities in Saffron Walden
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£2,500 02/02/2023
towards the core costs of an organisation supporting people with disabilities and their families across West Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£7,000 10/11/2022
towards the core costs of an organisation supporting people with disabilities and their families across West Essex
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Accuro
£3,823 22/10/2022
Our project will bring together local young people with a disability to make friends, find a sense of belonging and thrive whilst providing respite care to families and carers in the Dunmow area.
Essex Community Foundation - Jubilee Project
£2,400 23/03/2022
to run creative workshops for children and young people with disabilities, working with the community, culminating in a Jubilee event for the children, families and community
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£1,429 23/10/2021
We would like to provide exciting social activities for children and adults with disabilities, reducing loneliness and isolation, and improving happiness, health and wellbeing in Harlow.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£20,000 03/06/2021
to support children, young people and adults with learning disability across West Essex meeting Covid19 recommendations
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Accuro (Care Services) - 28/04/21
£1,000 12/05/2021
Core Funding
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£5,485 06/05/2021
towards the running costs of a new educational life skills service to support 19 to 25 year olds with a learning disability in Harlow
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£13,578 29/04/2021
towards the running of the Cool Connections youth club for 11 – 19s with a disability and associated school holiday projects in Harlow over 2 years
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Adults with disability in West Essex and their families
£210,000 23/04/2021
36
The funding will be used over three years to support new activities for adults with disabilities in Harlow and Uttlesford Essex. The activities are a Life Skills Programme a Young Adult Friendship ....more
True Colours Trust - Towards youth clubs & play groups for disabled children – COVID19 response
£5,000 06/10/2020
Towards youth clubs & play groups for disabled children – COVID19 response
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£5,072 13/08/2020
towards additional IT equipment and PPE to help the centre reopen and provide face to face services after COVID19
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 12/06/2020
Accuro - supporting local people with disability and their families in West Essex during and post COVID-19
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting people with disability and families in West Essex through COVID19
£60,000 04/06/2020
6
Accuro supports people with disabilities in West Essex by providing a wide range of social activities which help reduce loneliness and isolation and improve wellbeing. The project will use funding to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£180,000 07/05/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation which provides services to people with disabilities across West Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£15,000 08/04/2020
to respond to the COVID19 crisis and help sustain an organisation which supports children, young people and adults with a learning disability and their families in West Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Cool Connections and Harlow Adult Friendship Scheme 2019-2020
£10,000 24/10/2019
11
To support Cool Connections and Harlow Adult Friendship Scheme 2019-2020
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 07/03/2019
Accuro - supporting people with Disability in West Essex - application for revenue grant towards core costs.
Essex Community Foundation - Core Costs for Accuro (Care services) April 2019 - Mar 2020
£11,800 05/03/2019
11
To help with the operating costs of an organisation which supports children, young people and adults with a learning disability and their families in West Essex
National Lottery Community Fund - Accuro's Adult Friendship Scheme (AFS)
£10,000 29/11/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to continue to run their friendship scheme for adults with learning disabilities to help improve social skills and bring people together.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£2,576 19/11/2018
We want to pay for the hire of a minibus for all of our holiday scheme activities during the school holidays for a year.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Accuro (Care Services)
£15,000 16/05/2018
refurbishment of a new premises for a charity which works with disabled people in West Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Residential for Cool Connections
£4,000 13/03/2018
0
Towards a five day residential trip for young people from Harlow with autism
Essex Community Foundation - Youth Volunteering at Accuro
£5,000 08/03/2018
12
Towards the implementation of a Youth Volunteering project at a charity supporting people with disabilities
Essex Community Foundation - 16-25 Saturday Activity Club
£5,000 31/03/2017
10
To provide respite breaks for children with learning difficulties and disabilities during the school holidays
Essex Community Foundation - Accuro Saturday Playclub and Accuro under 19 Youth Project
£5,000 25/11/2016
12
To support the costs of a Saturday Playclub and under 19 Youth Project in Uttlesford
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Accuro Care Services
£32,500 25/10/2013
The charity offers support to disabled people. Their gardening programme will enhance the skills and confidence of adults with learning disabilities and empower them to move on whilst offering ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-68
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/11/2002, number: 1094736
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/08/2002, number: 04507249
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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; AR16: 2 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Tocher House
Dunmow Road
Start Hill
Bishop's Stortford
Essex
CM22 7TA

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND/ OR THE ELDERLY WHO RESIDE IN ESSEX AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVISION OF RESPITE CARE AND OTHER SERVICES FOR WHICH THE IS AN IDENTIFIED NEED AND SUCH SERVICES WILL ENCOMPASS THE NEED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND TRAINING TO VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ESSEX AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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