Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
    • Grant maker support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

    NARTHEX SPARKHILL 

    Narthex Sparkhill seeks to promote inter cultural harmony within the inner-city area of Sparkhill, Birmingham by provision of community facilities and education opportunities. Current regular activities offered are:Foodbank, one stop advice centre, domestic violence support, friendship cafe, youth club, lunch club for the elderly and refugee drop-in and resource centre.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
    Established: 20 years

    www.narthex.org.uk

    enquiries@narthex.org.uk

    01217531959

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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
    31/12/22£907£914£-7£13£273£1391.81975
    31/12/21£731£761£-30£13£255£1151.816190
    31/12/20£856£621£235£9£286£1072.114156
    31/12/19£579£605£-26£9£51£-33-0.718180
    31/12/18£592£599£-8£11£77£370.718280
    31/12/17£425£414£11£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/16£373£356£17£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/15£285£308£-23£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/14£304£286£18£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/13£267£269£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/12£177£192£-15£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/11£156£161£-5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/10£147£114£34£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/09£130£108£22£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/08£39£94£-55£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/07£148£126£22£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/06£58£72£-13£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/05£43£16£27£0£0£0n/a00
    31/12/04£1£4£-3£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.4%
    Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 3%
    Liabilities/Income: 1%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 51%
    Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
    Quick Ratio: 18.7
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Birmingham City,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • 19 employees
    • 75 volunteers

    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
    The Trussell Trust£316,567
    Garfield Weston Foundation£55,000
    DCMS£41,798
    National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
    The Clothworkers Foundation£15,000
    CAF£10,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £30,000 16/11/2022
    Develop food bank volunteers to support advice provision and intervention/signposting
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £5,000 14/10/2022
    Emergency grant
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £36,000 21/07/2022
    Contribution (21 hpw) towards employment costs of new FT Strategic Lead
    National Lottery Community Fund - Refugee Resource Centre
    £10,000 15/07/2022
    The funding will be used to alleviate financial crisis for refugees and asylum seekers via the organisations’ Refugee Resource Centre. Essential household items and clothing are provided to people ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £30,000 04/04/2022
    Narthex Sparkhill
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £106,254 22/12/2021
    2 new FI roles
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £104,598 24/05/2021
    36
    In-house FT CMA advisor for three years
    National Lottery Community Fund - Money & Debt Advice Project
    £10,000 16/04/2021
    The funding will be used to expand the group's existing Money and Debt Advice team by hiring a money guidance worker. The project aims to help those financially affected by the pandemic by offering ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 02/10/2020
    Narthex Sparkhill
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £41,798 15/09/2020
    "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
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £27,005 30/07/2020
    CV emergency costs: salary costs
    CAF - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £10,000 29/04/2020
    3
    Grant to Narthex Sparkhill to support the organisation through COVID19
    Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £3,000 24/04/2020
    43
    WE ARE PROVIDING 1 MAIN FOODBANK & 6 SATELLITES PLUS 2 EMERGENCY FOODBANKS, ONE IN THE Q.E & ANOTHER IN A LOCAL FIRE STATION, PROVIDING CLOTHES & SHOES PLUS UNDERWEAR. EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT, ....more
    The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £15,000 16/07/2019
    purchase of a vehicle for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Birmingham
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £4,280 15/05/2019
    12
    Digital equipment; warehouse equipment
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £3,429 15/05/2019
    Warehouse equipment
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £51,520 19/04/2019
    36
    Staffing for new community café project (2 posts)
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Sparkhill Foodbank
    £38,410 26/03/2019
    Staffing for new community café project (2 posts)
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 25/01/2019
    Narthex Sparkhill Core Costs
    National Lottery Community Fund - Foodbank Cafe
    £9,877 18/01/2019
    12
    This funding will be used to open a community cafe. This will create a friendly space where people who use the foodbank can eat their meals. The café will also support the sustainability of the ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - WAF award
    £31,000 05/10/2018
    Narthex Support & Advice Centre remodification
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £41,000 16/02/2018
    12
    over one year as continuation funding towards the CEO's salary at a community organisation working with people in crisis in Sparkhill, Birmingham
    National Lottery Community Fund - Support & Advice Centre Interview Rooms & Offices for Victims & Client
    £9,988 19/07/2017
    12
    This group will use the funding to create partitioned meeting rooms, developing the capacity of the group to provide confidential advice to people.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £56,992 11/10/2016
    36
    This project is a youth club for girls aged 11-15 years experiencing deprivation and social isolation.The project will improve interpersonal and communication skills, increase life chances and reduce ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Sparkhill Foodbank and Crisis Intervention Centre
    £449,297 10/08/2016
    60
    Funding will be used to continue its work providing food supplies through a food bank, plus advice, intervention and access to further support vulnerable people and families suddenly placed in ....more
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £70,000 31/01/2016
    24
    over two years towards the CEO's salary at a community organisation working wih people in crisis in Sparkhill, Birmingham
    Comic Relief - Debt Advice Project Expansion
    £104,548 30/09/2015
    36
    The Sparkhill Birmingham area experiences high deprivation with 90% ethnic minority residents: many are new migrants and refugees where 40% have no qualifications; English is not their first ....more
    Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the weekly Ladies Friendship Café
    £500 31/07/2014
    Towards the weekly Ladies Friendship Café, for victims of mental, physical or sexual abuse in Birmingham.
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £28,650 28/03/2014
    raining, advice and coaching for people in crisis. Living in a deprived area of Birmingham struggling with debt, language barriers, unemployment and isolation in old age.
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Narthex Sparkhill
    £72,600 05/12/2013
    24
    towards two years' continuation funding of the salary of a Project Director at a project that provides community services in a deprived area of Birmingham
    National Lottery Community Fund - Sparkhill Food Bank
    £424,631 10/08/2011
    60
    This is the continuation and expansion of an existing project based in Sparkhill, Birmingham, that aims to create an easily accessible centre where people in financial crisis will be able to receive ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/10/2003, number: 1100358
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Investment
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    19 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    NARTHEX SPARKHILL
    ST JOHN'S CHURCH
    ST JOHNS ROAD
    SPARKHILL
    BIRMINGHAM
    B11 4RG

    Objectives

    3.1 THE PROMOTION OF THE BENEFIT OF, AND FACILITATION OF INTER CULTURAL HARMONY BETWEEN, THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM, AND IN PARTICULAR THE INNER CITY AREA OF SPARKHILL, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (THE BENEFICIARIES) WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND HEALTH AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR ADVANCEMENT, RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE SAID BENEFICIARIES;3.2 THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF URBAN REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE INNER CITY AREA OF SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:3.2.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING;3.2.2 THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS AND/OR LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS;3.2.3 THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES;3.2.4 THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND/OR THOSE WHO, BY REASONS OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES; AND3.2.5 SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.3.3 PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED..

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    THE INNER CITY AREA OF SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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