Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Spending declining: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 5

BODY POSITIVE CHESHIRE AND NORTH WALES

Social Care services:Support, information and advice for people living with or affected by HIV & AIDS. Welfare and benefits advice, housing and legal information.Prevention & Health Promotion:Training and information for professionals regarding sexual health and sexuality. Condom and lube provision, peer support groups for LGBT people. Sexual health screening, training for local community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 32 years

www.bpcnw.co.uk

health@bpcnw.co.uk

01270 653150

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		£275	£262	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/22		£245	£289	£-45	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/21		£235	£273	£-38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/20		£357	£345	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/19		£319	£391	£-72	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	26
31/03/18		£378	£395	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£423	£379	£44	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£388	£332	£56	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£317	£302	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£323	£319	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£359	£336	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£299	£289	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£331	£400	£-69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£410	£395	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£369	£329	£40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£355	£283	£72	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£251	£279	£-27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£270	£275	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£247	£269	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£257	£250	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

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

Where it operates

Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Halton, Isle Of Anglesey, Wrexham,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
6 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	£183,500
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£47,000
Cheshire Community Foundation	£11,015

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Cheshire Community Foundation - LGBT+ Mental Health Initiatives
£11,015	05/11/2021	Body Positive is a Crewe based charity that has been supporting LGBT+ communities for over 25 years and has a reputation for delivering high quality services. The project will tackle social ....more Body Positive is a Crewe based charity that has been supporting LGBT+ communities for over 25 years and has a reputation for delivering high quality services. The project will tackle social isolation, improve mental well-being for a marginalised community by creating greater access to specialist mental health services and social interaction. The funding will be used to pay for training for the expansion of the volunteer counselling service, facilitation of the peer support groups and provision of well-being activity boxes with an LGBT+ focus. Our project aims to provide well-being activities and practical support to tackle some of the health inequalities experienced by LGBT+ people in Crewe.
National Lottery Community Fund - Pride in Well-Being
£174,500	17/09/2021	Based in Crewe Body Positive provide services for the LGBT+ community in Cheshire with the aim of making a more confident resilient and independent community. The group focus on support education and ....more Based in Crewe Body Positive provide services for the LGBT+ community in Cheshire with the aim of making a more confident resilient and independent community. The group focus on support education and advice around issues of sexual health and sexuality. Funding will go towards the hiring of staff to enable the organisation to expand their counselling services.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Body Positive
£47,000	29/10/2019	From Prejudice to Pride - the later years
National Lottery Community Fund - LGBT+ Social Support
£9,000	24/07/2019 12	The project aims to improve access to and quality of mental well-being services for LGBT+ people in the community. The organisation will engage with harder to reach LGBT+ people in the local area ....more The project aims to improve access to and quality of mental well-being services for LGBT+ people in the community. The organisation will engage with harder to reach LGBT+ people in the local area through one to one, therapeutic and group support.
Department of Health - Body Positive Cheshire and North Wales
£49,094	01/04/2019	Body Positive Cheshire and North Wales
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Body Positive
£43,500	02/08/2017	Celebrating Cheshire's LGBT History
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Body Positive Cheshire and North Wales
£20,000	28/09/2012	the salary of the HIV Case Manager

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

MICHELLE SIMPSON (Chair), Other trusteeship: DISABILITY INFORMATION BUREAU,

MELANIE WILLIAMS Appointed: 2020

NIGEL DAVIES Appointed: 2018

SALLI JEYNES Appointed: 2011

SIMON MILLAR Appointed: 2015

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/03/1992, number: 1009850

Gift Aid

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
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

20 returns made; AR10: 1 days late, AR07: 0 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

BRIDGEWATER HOUSE
230 Edleston Road
CREWE
CW2 7EH

Objectives

(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST THOSE INFECTED WITH THE HUMAN IMMUNE DEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) AND THOSE PERSONS GENERALLY WHO HAVE DEVELOPED ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) RELATED DISEASES OR WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN PERSONALLY AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS OR RELATED CONDITIONS (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL MATTERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EFFECTS OF HIV INFECTION AND AIDS AND THE PREVENTION THEREOF AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE CHESHIRE AND NORTH WALES

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