Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

DIAL - GT YARMOUTH 

DIAL offers a free, impartial and confidential information and advice service for disabled and vulnerable people and their carers within the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Advice regarding state benefits, including full benefit checks and assistance with benefit applications. Debt Counselling including negotiating with creditors, formulation of debt management plans and assistance with budgeting.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Established: 36 years

www.dial-greatyarmouth.org.uk

info@dial-greatyarmouth.org.uk

01493856900

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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*£544£462£82£0£804£2386.21822
31/03/22£529£384£145£0£722£2206.91718
31/03/21£545£418£127£0£577£1985.71517
31/03/20£459£346£113n/an/an/an/an/a21
31/03/19£401£379£22n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/18*£355£287£68£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£270£243£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£360£273£87£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£249£205£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£135£143£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£66£92£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£150£74£76£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£95£89£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£69£62£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£51£47£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£23£19£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£15£9£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£12£9£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£10£10£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£13£11£2£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: 30%
Reserves/Spending: 6.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 21 months
Quick Ratio: 1309.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Norfolk,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 22 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£351,694
Lloyds Bank Foundation£110,038
DCMS£33,831
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to DIAL Great Yarmouth
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to DIAL Great Yarmouth
£12,514 30/09/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to DIAL Great Yarmouth
£28,620 17/12/2021
Grant to DIAL Great Yarmouth
National Lottery Community Fund - Budgeting Together Project
£323,714 07/06/2021
36
The funding will be used over three years will allow Dial Great Yarmouth to continue to provide a much-needed service to vulnerable people in the town who have been financially impacted Covid-19 and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Development grant to DIAL Great Yarmouth
£16,654 12/05/2021
9
Restricted grant over nine months to DIAL Great Yarmouth to lead local implementation of the Development directorate's People and Communities programme.
National Lottery Community Fund - Great Yarmouth DIAL - Project 8 extension
£27,980 01/03/2021
3
The project is using funding to provide a money debt and benefit advice service to vulnerable people across Great Yarmouth equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to becoming financially ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to DIAL Great Yarmouth
£50,000 09/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of DIAL Great Yarmouth, awarded under the Foundation's Homeless and Vulnerably Housed funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£33,831 19/08/2020
"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
Comic Relief - Get Set DIAL
£74,979 27/09/2017
24
Local residents, supported by DIAL Gt-Yarmouth and its partners, will identify and develop a range of sport and physical activities that make use of community assets such as parks, community centres ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Great Yarmouth DIAL - Project 8
£498,677 22/02/2017
48
This project will reduce the worsening income and employment deprivation in Great Yarmouth, improving access to education as well as health and wellbeing amongst vulnerable and creating more ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - DIAL Great Yarmouth: Moving Forward Together
£247,172 06/11/2013
36
This is a continuation of an existing project that aims to strengthen the financial resilience of communities by enabling them to better adapt and respond to changing circumstances particularly ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Dial Great Yarmouth
£25,000 26/04/2013
The charity provides advice support both office based and outreach to disabled people. This enables them to reduce their stress, regain control over their lives, gain the benefits they are entitled ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Disability Awareness Workshops
£10,000 03/03/2011
12
This is a project by a registered charity in Great Yarmouth. The group will use funding to deliver a newly-developed training package focusing on disability awareness to businesses, schools and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/09/1988, number: 299909
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
20 returns made; AR23: 40 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 2 days late,
Main office

KINGSIDE
26 King Street
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
NR30 2NZ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ALL DISABLED AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE WITHIN GREAT YARMOUTH AND THE NORFOLK AREA, BY THE PROVISION OF A DIRECT INFORMATION AND ADVICE SERVICE.TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP TO PEOPLE WITHIN THE GREAT YARMOUTH AND THE NORFOLK AREA BY THE PROVISION OF A DEBT AND MONEY MANAGEMENT ADVICE SERVICE.TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TO PEOPLE WITHIN THE GREAT YARMOUTH AND NORFOLK AREA BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO ACCESS LOCAL EXERCISE AND SPORTING GROUPS.TO PROVIDE VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES TO INDIVIDUALS WITHIN GY AND NORFOLK AREA IN SUPPORTING DIAL ACTIVITIES WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO GAIN QUALIFICATIONS AND WORK PLACEMENTS.?

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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