Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 9

COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE WEST LANCASHIRE

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the County of Lancashire. In particular the advancement of the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness. To promote and organize co-operation around these areas by bringing together public, private and voluntary, community and faith organisations in the area.

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 age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity only provides its support via other charities
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

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		£282	£422	£-140	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/22		£755	£566	£189	£0	£482	£241	5.1	10	1
31/03/21		£641	£544	£97	£0	£293	£201	4.4	11	8
31/03/20		£251	£370	£-119	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£501	£271	£230	£0	£315	£291	12.9	6	3
31/03/18		£301	£288	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£325	£439	£-114	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£301	£469	£-168	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£464	£646	£-182	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£758	£529	£229	£31	£536	£214	4.9	14	0
31/03/13		£697	£671	£27	£23	£307	£155	2.8	15	0
31/03/12		£685	£622	£64	£3	£280	£163	3.1	16	0
31/03/11		£713	£672	£40	£164	£216	£139	2.5	21	0
31/03/10		£449	£397	£52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£359	£369	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£865	£888	£-22	£104	£106	£67	0.9	17	0
31/03/07		£1,258	£1,132	£125	£202	£128	£44	0.5	32	0
31/03/06		£1,048	£1,096	£-48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£1,349	£1,327	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£1,064	£1,018	£46	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 30 years

www.wlcvs.org

enquiries@wlcvs.org

01695733737

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body

Where it operates

Lancashire,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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
John Moores Foundation - Grant to West Lancashire Council for Voluntary Service
£7,000	16/06/2023	Towards office and staff costs of submitting a National Lottery bid
Department for Work and Pensions - SCRATCH THE SURFACE LIMMITED
£9,418	01/04/2022	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
National Lottery Community Fund - Skelmersdale International
£9,987	23/11/2018 12	The project aims to bring asylum seeker and refugee communities together to help break down cultural and social barriers, developing positive community relationships. This will be achieved through ....more The project aims to bring asylum seeker and refugee communities together to help break down cultural and social barriers, developing positive community relationships. This will be achieved through activities such as ESOL lessons. Funding will go towards salaries, travel, volunteer expenses, room hire, refreshments, bike maintenance course, ESOL and management fees.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to West Lancashire Council for Voluntary Services
£8,030	19/11/2018	Help inspire disadvantaged and socially excluded people through mindful sewing. Money will cover materials, tutors and volunteer expenses.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community-i West Lancashire
£10,000	17/09/2014 12	Not Available

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-73

PAUL WHITE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

RUTH SCARROTT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Careers

SIAN JAY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant

JOHN DAVIS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: JOHN MOORES FOUNDATION, JOHN MOORES FOUNDATION,

VICTOR THOMAS CITARELLA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Management Consultant, Other trusteeship: LANCASHIRE ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/07/1994, number: 1039563
Registered at Companies House on 20/06/1994, number: 02940823

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR09: 26 days late,

Main office

Skelmersdale Ecumenical Centre
Northway
SKELMERSDALE
Lancashire
WN8 6LU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF WEST LANCASHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST LANCASHIRE

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