Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

HALTON CARERS CENTRE 

The relief of persons who are ill, disabled or elderly through the provision of information and support to persons who care for those persons who are ill, disabled or elderly (carers) within the borough of Halton.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 16 years

www.haltoncarers.co.uk

help@haltoncarers.co.uk

01928580182

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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£668£659£9£0£362£2935.31326
31/03/22£535£604£-69£0£353£2685.31323
31/03/21£732£601£131£0£423£2775.51226
31/03/20£651£636£15£0£291£2785.21316
31/03/19£603£605£-2£0£277£2955.91320
31/03/18£605£625£-19£0£279£2695.2130
31/03/17£665£691£-26£0£298£2754.8120
31/03/16*£730£713£17£0£324£2724.6120
31/03/15£654£641£13£0£307£561.1130
31/03/14£759£577£182£0£295£1132.3110
31/03/13£496£502£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£382£479£-97£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£465£379£85£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£365£343£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£180£71£108£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 5.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: INF
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Halton,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 13 employees
  • 26 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
National Lottery Community Fund£218,000
Henry Smith Charity£120,000
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£79,463
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Co-Operative Group£28,169
BBC Children in Need£15,000
John Moores Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - From grey to garden
£1,000 05/01/2023
To transform an outdoor area into a green space containing bees, vegetable planters, and pollinator flowers. This will create a green space for those who visit the centre and giving the carers who ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - From grey to garden
£9,500 25/11/2022
The organisation will create an eco-friendly outdoor space for careers to maintain and use to deliver activities with the aim of improving wellbeing increasing skills and promoting interaction.
National Lottery Community Fund - Carers in Control
£208,500 04/03/2022
The funding for the organisation will go towards core costs so they can continue to provide support to young and adult carers in the community. The group aim to train and offer support to carers of ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Halton Carers' Centre
£120,000 02/11/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of two Carer Support Workers at a project providing training and social activities for young and adult carers in Halton, North West England.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Halton Carers' Centre
£14,144 23/10/2021
We would like to provide fun wellbeing activities such as cooking, gardening and yoga for both young and adult carers, to access either in our centre or at home.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Halton Carers Centre
£79,463 23/06/2021
49% of salaries over 3-years for two family support workers at a carers' charity in Cheshire.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 27/11/2020
Halton Carers beyone Covid
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Halton Carers Centre
£5,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund tablets and increased facilitator time, to enable young carers with no IT devices who are overwhelmed with responsibility during Covid-19, to access online support and ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Halton Carers Centre Ltd
£2,470 22/05/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipmentfor a charity that works with young and adult, unpaid carers in Cheshire
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Sefton Women's & Children's Aid
£10,000 14/05/2020
Towards the counselling service
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Halton Carers Centre Ltd
£14,025 15/11/2019
We want to provide holistic therapies and podiatry treatments to combat the stress faced by young and adult carers in Halton.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Halton Carers Centre
£10,000 08/08/2019
24
The R-time group will provide access to fun activities for young carers aged 6-11 who have intense caring roles. Through attending this group, young people will experience improved emotional and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Halton Carers Centre
£75,000 16/10/2018
36
Part funded Carers Support Workers to identify people new to caring offering support on a 1-2-1 basis and in group and social settings to reduce isolation increase confidence, skills and wellbeing ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Halton Carers' Centre
£120,000 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' salaries of Carer Support Workers at a project providing training and social activities for young and adult carers in a deprived area of Cheshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Strengthening carers through brief relaxing breaks
£10,000 28/06/2018
12
The funding will be used to run a range of holistic therapy sessions for young and adult carers to help alleviate the stress and anxiety associated with caring.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 05/03/2018
Supporting isolated carers
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Halton Carers Centre
£15,000 25/01/2017
12
Consultancy support, to enable the charity to develop a robust funding raising strategy which will lead to a more diversified funding base and less reliance on local authority funding.
National Lottery Community Fund - Halton Carers' Centre
£404,237 14/11/2014
36
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Halton Carers Centre
£21,500 26/04/2013
The charity provides support for young and adult, unpaid carers, enabling them to be able to cope with their caring responsibilities and have a life of their own. The grant will enable an additional ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - HALTON CARERS' CENTRE LTD
£252,339 15/08/2012
24
This project will support young and adult, unpaid carers in Halton to enable them to better manage their caring role._x000B_Funding will enable the group to increase their bank of volunteers and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Halton Carers Centre
£67,753 04/08/2010
24
Towards Project costs Towards the salary of the young carers' transitional worker salary and associated project costs.
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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: 50-77
  • SUZAN TURNER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Credit Risk Operations Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/06/2008, number: 1124493
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/04/2008, number: 06574889
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR16: 2 days late,
Main office

62 Church Street
Runcorn
WA7 1LD

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ( THE OBJECTS ) ARE;THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE ILL, DISABLED OR ELDERLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO PERSONS WHO CARE FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE ILL, DISABLED OR ELDERLY (CARERS) WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF HALTON.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE BOROUGH OF HALTON.

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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