Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 10
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

BACK ON TRACK MANCHESTER LTD

We provide education, training, volunteering and associated support for excluded adults in Greater Manchester. Our services are aimed at adults who have been through some form of resettlement process related to substance misuse, homelessness, mental illnes, or offending behaviour. We also provide resources /training for other organisations in our field. (Formerly known as MERC and NEARIS.)
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£848£816£33£37£299£2633.92350
31/03/22£785£830£-45£32£267£2263.32640
31/03/21£905£829£76£25£312£2583.72940
31/03/20£927£906£21£86£236£1882.52950
31/03/19£873£847£26£66£215£1852.62050
31/03/18£765£761£4£33£189£1692.7220
31/03/17£764£726£38£21£185£1572.6220
31/03/16£741£721£20£6£147£1192220
31/03/15£712£686£25£6£127£1222.1220
31/03/14£519£497£22£6£102£992.4140
31/03/13£399£391£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£369£361£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£417£402£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£539£540£-1£8£48£-7-0.2170
31/03/09*£587£551£36£10£49£350.8210
31/03/08*£571£526£44£16£13£30.1120
31/03/07*£460£539£-79n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£416£503£-87n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£457£484£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£487£461£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 88%
Reserves/Spending: 3.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 32 years

www.backontrackmanchester.org.uk

info@backontrackmanchester.org.uk

01618341661

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Shelter for homeless, vulnerable & excluded people
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£329,481
Henry Smith Charity£120,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£80,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
AB Charitable Trust£15,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£10,000
CAF£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - Back on Track Manchester
£5,500 11/07/2023
Cooking and Community
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£10,000 09/05/2023
0
Purchase of IT equipment for a charity which works with alcohol and substance misuse in Manchester
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Project Funding
£10,000 01/05/2023
This grant meant that we could run a programme of support for people facing food poverty and struggling with the cost of living crisis.
National Lottery Community Fund - Cooking and Community
£9,936 14/04/2023
The funding will be used to deliver a series of community cooking initiatives in the café and kitchens of their learning centre for people in the local community who experience social disadvantage with the aim of improving skills and knowledge ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Back on Track Manchester
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 07/10/2022
Core funding
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Back on Track Manchester
£15,000 30/06/2022
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Back on Track Manchester provides training, education and work experience to those with multiple disadvantages who have first hand experience within the justice system.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£50,000 22/06/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Back on Track Manchester
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Back On Track Manchester Ltd - 30/11/21
£1,750 14/01/2022
Core Funding
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Back on Track
£120,000 02/11/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for people from disadvantaged communities affected by homelessness and substance misuse in Greater Manchester.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£40,000 11/12/2020
Swan Kitchens
Manchester City Council - Grant to Back On Track
£7,000 26/06/2020
Grant for work club funding
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£2,800 11/05/2020
12
Covid Fund Small Grant unrestricted core costs
CAF - Grant to Back on Track - Manchester
£10,000 09/04/2020
3
Grant to Back on Track - Manchester to support the organisation through COVID19
Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity - Grant to Back on Track
£6,500 30/03/2020
Supporting initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Reset Project
£319,545 31/01/2020
36
The organisation supports adults with convictions, low skills and complex needs to get them into work and volunteering opportunities. Funding for the group will go towards a new programme of activities co-designed by service users.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Back on Track
£7,418 15/11/2019
We want to run mental health and wellbeing workshops for people who have been homeless, and other disadvantaged adults.
MACC - Back on Track Community Safety Project
£4,788 18/09/2018
We will run a series of weekly workshops for disadvantaged women, following a successful pilot project earlier in 2018. We expect a minimum of 50 people to take part, plus 10 volunteers. There will be 24 three hour sessions, with a project duration ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£75,000 10/07/2018
36
providing a bridge from rehabilitation (prison, hostels and substance misuse recovery centres) to easy access education, guidance, training and work experience. The grant will fund the salaries & on costs of the CEO and Business Development ....more
One Manchester - Funding for Back on Track apprentice
£5,000 01/03/2018
Business development funding for 'Swan Kitchens', social enterprise of Back on Track supporting people who have been affected by homelessness, drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems or offending. Funding for a full-time apprentice to ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£75,000 25/08/2017
36
over 3 years as continuation funding for the catering training co-ordinator post at this centre for people with a history of offending and/or mental health issues, substance misuse and homelessness
National Lottery Community Fund - Launchpad
£478,615 19/04/2017
36
This project supports people in Greater Manchester with a history of offending, homelessness, substance misuse and mental health problems. Activities include a series of vocational training programmes including Business Administration, IT, Catering ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Back on Track
£50,000 08/09/2016
24
towards two years' salary of a Volunteer Coordinator at an organisation that supports disadvantaged and vulnerable people from Greater Manchester through training, work experience, volunteering and mentoring
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Back on Track
£120,000 27/07/2016
36
Towards core costs to support people with severe multiple disadvantage in Manchester into employment.
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 20/07/2016
Supports disadvantaged adults with life and employment skills training, work experience and volunteering opportunities.
Dulverton Trust - The Back on Track Academy
£30,000 08/06/2016
The Back on Track Academy
National Lottery Community Fund - The Back on Track digital transformation project
£10,000 03/02/2016
12
The organisation will use the funding to build organisational capacity to enable them to provide skills training and media workshops for unemployed adults in the local community. This will address digital exclusion and improve access to housing, ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£60,000 09/07/2015
24
over two years towards the salary of a catering training co-ordinator at this centre for people with a history of offending and/or mental health issues, substance misuse and homelessness
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£75,000 08/07/2015
36
providing a bridge from rehabilitation (prison, hostels and substance misuse recovery centres) to easy access education, guidance, training and work experience. The grant will fund the salaries & on costs of the CEO and Business Development ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Back on Track
£50,100 30/06/2014
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - Back on Track - 1
£90,000 20/03/2014
To expand ex-offender work experience activities and turn these into income-generating enterprises to become partly self-funding via trading.
National Lottery Community Fund - Work Experience Project
£356,096 18/02/2014
36
This continuation project aims to help transform the life chances of disadvantaged adults through supporting them into learning and skills training. It will work with adults who have issues like homelessness, substance misuse, long–term mental ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Back on Track
£55,000 14/03/2013
24
towards two years' running costs of an organisation in Manchester that supports disadvantaged people into employment
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Back on Track Manchester
£20,000 29/06/2012
the salary and on-costs of the Training Co-ordinator
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 48-62
  • AMANDA PATERSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Transformation Director
  • AMINA BODHANIA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Partnerships And Business Improvement
  • DR KEVIN WONG Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Associate Director Research Unit Mmu
  • GILLIAN DRAKEFORD (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • JUDITH HARRISON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant Psychiatrist
  • JULIE TAYLOR Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Programme Director, Health And Care Commissioning
  • LYNDSEY FORREST Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Divisional Finance Director
  • OLUSAYO PHILLIPS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Readiness Assessment/Adherence Lead
  • SARAH NEWTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Accountancy Tutor
  • SUSAN JENKINS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Talent Partner (Law Firm)
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/02/1993, number: 1017467
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/07/1992, number: 02735484
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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; AR09: 13 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 23 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 17 days late,
Main office

4th Floor Swan Buildings
20 Swan Street
Manchester
M4 5JW

Objectives

3. The objects of the company shall be to advance the education of disadvantaged members of society, and especially persons who are suffering or who have suffered a legal restriction on their liberty in any penal or correctional establishment or otherwise, and their families, in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) through the provision of educational, training and advisory services to said persons.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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