Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 2

No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 8

THE BERIN CENTRE

From our base The Berin Centre, we provide daily support and group sessions for children and their families in Berinsfield and the wider South Oxon area. We run training and parenting courses with a focus on supporting children's learning. Our base is used by many groups in the community including a craft group and counselling charity. Once a week we run a non means tested Community Larder .

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased 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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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: 38 years

www.theberincentre.co.uk

linda@theberincentre.co.uk

01865341944

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£137	£141	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£101	£118	£-17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/21		£95	£67	£27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20		£83	£77	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/19		£95	£96	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/18?		£96	£116	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/17		£56	£110	£-54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/16		£72	£120	£-49	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/15	*	£74	£78	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/14		£63	£98	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/13		£65	£97	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/12		£68	£74	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/11	*	£134	£117	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/10		£105	£80	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/09		£105	£100	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
29/02/08		£96	£88	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/07?		£114	£136	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/05		£221	£172	£50	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
29/02/04		£236	£210	£26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

What it does

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training

Who works here?

10 volunteers

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

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

Where it operates

Oxfordshire,

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
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Berin Centre - Responsive Support
£9,166	19/07/2022	We'll use this funding to support three key strands of our work: - Staffing for our weekly Community Larder. The larder brings affordable healthy food to the village and is facilitated each week by ....more We'll use this funding to support three key strands of our work: - Staffing for our weekly Community Larder. The larder brings affordable healthy food to the village and is facilitated each week by three volunteers and two staff. We absorb the vast majority of costs, including exclusive use of the building to host the larder, but contributions to enable the continuity of this service are essential. The larder provides vital access to healthy, affordable food that is local and accessible. This enables residents to maintain their overall health through diet, reducing the need to travel to busy shops outside the village. It also provides an opportunity to join up with other organisations and signpost effectively - partners attend the Larder to speak to members about services available to them. - Staffing for our Growing Minds school readiness project which involves distribution of free monthly story books for every child under 5 across the village, 1-1 family support, and 3 Peep Learning Together Groups each week for 0-5 year olds and their parents. This intensive support helps parents to create a positive home-learning environment, understand their child's development, and together prepare their child for starting school. - The delivery of a cohort of the Family Links 10 week programme. Our staff are fully trained Family Links Facilitators and we have identified a number of families in the area who would benefit from this emotional health nurturing programme. We'd like to work in close partnership with the local primary school to co-deliver a full programme, sharing parenting strategies and forming a close network of peer support.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Community Kitchen Garden
£4,358	13/07/2022	We'd like to further develop the Community Kitchen Garden with a broader range of local groups and residents. Following our initial success in establishing the garden with input from the Youth Club, ....more We'd like to further develop the Community Kitchen Garden with a broader range of local groups and residents. Following our initial success in establishing the garden with input from the Youth Club, we now want to engage the local Day Centre for older people, and a broader cross-section of older people in the village, alongside children, families, young people, and working-age adults. We'd like to add a few key items, which will in turn provide opportunities: - A seed shack/plant swap. We will build this, and engage visitors to our Community Larder and the wider village in populating it with seeds from their gardens, seedlings and plants, and messages to one another. - A water butt. A number of people across the community have enquired about helping tend the garden, however there's no access to running water. We'd like to install a water butt to catch rain water so that anyone can help water the plants. - A bench. We've had requests, particularly from older people, to provide a place to sit and enjoy the garden. Based on the Friendly Bench model, we'd like to install a bench with signage that prompts people to sit and chat, inviting conversations with people they may not otherwise talk to, and a clearly defined place to visit if you'd like to meet people. - A mosaic art installation. By running sessions and providing materials to the Day Centre and other groups across the village, including the school, different individuals will decorate tiles and we will then install them in a community mosaic in the garden, creating an inter-generational art piece for all to enjoy.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Berin Centre
£1,250	23/03/2022	Grant to Berin Centre
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - The Berin Centre: Creating Connection
£8,475	23/11/2021 12	Grant to Berin Centre
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Growing Minds
£5,000	07/07/2021	Grant to Berin Centre
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Match Fund Support
£5,000	04/11/2020	Match Fund support for The Berin Centre via The Good Exchange.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Growing Minds
£5,000	28/05/2020	Grant to Berin Centre
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Continuing Support for The Berin Centre
£20,000	08/05/2018	Continuing support for the Berin Centre
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - The Berin Centre
£20,000	03/08/2017	Continuing support for the Berin Centre
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - THE BERIN CENTRE
£70,000	30/03/2017	The funding will be used towards the costs of running The Berin Centre in Berinsfield. This replaces the former Children's Centre previously funded by OCC who have now withdrawn their funding. The ....more The funding will be used towards the costs of running The Berin Centre in Berinsfield. This replaces the former Children's Centre previously funded by OCC who have now withdrawn their funding. The centre will support families and children in Berinsfield and surrounding villages.In addition the charity will continue to give support to those seeking work or changing careers and provide training courses. The charity aims to run a cafe to encourage all members of the community to use it as a meeting place and reduce some of the isolation that comes with living in a rural location. The grant will be used towards the general running costs of running the Family Service including staff costs and associated training, building running costs ,resources and service delivery costs. A breakdown of the estimated 3 year budget is outlined in our attached business plan

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

DANIEL JAMES SCATE Appointed: 2022

DR CATHRYN NEESAM Appointed: 2021

JACQUELINE LOGAN Appointed: 2016

JOHN TAYLOR Appointed: 2016, Other trusteeship: THE FRIENDS OF DORCHESTER ABBEY,

RICHARD JAMES HUNTLEY PULLEN Appointed: 2014

ROBIN FRANCIS BENNETT Appointed: 2017

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/10/1985, number: 292526

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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
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

19 returns made; AR15: 34 days late, AR11: 25 days late,

Main office

The Berin Centre
Wimblestraw Road
Berinsfield
WALLINGFORD
OX10 7LZ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BERINSFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BERINSFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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