Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -7

Support Score: 3

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -2

CCS (BIRMINGHAM) LIMITED

The organisation and operation of the Youth Centre known as "E R Mason Youth Centre" in Birmingham. Providing activities for young people to fill their social time with positive activities and projects.

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Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board is completely male
The Board has little diversity 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: 54 years

office@ermason.org.uk

01216224570

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	*	£108	£95	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/22		£89	£77	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/21		£82	£73	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/20		£90	£79	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19		£48	£55	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£58	£46	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£56	£57	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£60	£60	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£0	£5	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14?	*	£0	£10	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/13?		£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	NAN	0	0
31/12/11		£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£0	£1	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£1	£0	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07		£3	£0	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06	*	£2	£0	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£2	£0	£2	£0	£0	£0	NAN	0	0
31/12/04		£2	£0	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
Recreation
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

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

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 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

Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000
Heart Of England Community Foundation	£7,444
Sport England	£4,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£15,000	05/11/2021	Weston Youth Grant
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to E R Mason Youth Centre (Trading as CCS (birmingham) Ltd
£3,544	12/03/2021	The grant will pay for 150 activity packs for young people, as well as wellbeing sessions for 12 weeks
Heart Of England Community Foundation - E R Mason Youth Centre
£3,900	08/03/2021	To deliver a 12-week programme of group activities and individual mentoring sessions for 12 young people.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£4,000	05/06/2020 4	Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport and Physical Activity
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to E R Mason Youth Centre (Trading as CCS (Birmingham) Ltd
£2,800	17/05/2018 12	Grant to E R Mason Youth Centre (Trading as CCS (Birmingham) Ltd

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-56

PHILIP HOPPNER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

RICKY OTTO Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Programme Facilitator/ Pastor

EDWARD WRIGHT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Youth Worker

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/06/1970, number: 500132
Registered at Companies House on 26/02/1970, number: 00973358

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds 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; AR23: 40 days late, AR16: 24 days late, AR15: 111 days late, AR14: 2 days late, AR06: 92 days late,

Main office

E R Mason Youth Centre
40 Irving Street
BIRMINGHAM
B1 1DH

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO RELEIVE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 FEBRUARY 1970).

Defined Area of Benefit:

BIRMINGHAM

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