Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 6
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6

ST JAMES' CENTRE (DERBY) 

Provide educational/leisure activities for disadvantage children and young people. Provide facilities and resources to the charitable sector. Undertake project activity which benefits local residents and groups.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be considerably in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
Established: 29 years

www.stjamescentrederby.co.uk

reception@stjamescentre.org

01332604066

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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£989£893£97£0£1,483£1,56221565
31/03/22£899£829£70£0£1,387£1,35619.6513
31/03/21£845£731£114£0£1,316£1,28821.2520
31/03/20£784£753£31£0£1,262£1,26220.16410
31/03/19£742£687£55£0£1,232£1,23221.55415
31/03/18£603£572£31£0£1,177£1,17724.7560
31/03/17£592£565£28£0£1,141£1,14124.2450
31/03/16£445£457£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£437£436£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£416£462£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£564£543£22£104£1,336£1,33629.6330
31/03/12£360£293£66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£308£285£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£304£288£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£291£255£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£253£260£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£184£181£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£229£216£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£198£236£-38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£200£169£31£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: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 105%
Reserves/Spending: 21 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 56 employees
  • 5 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Derby City, Derbyshire,

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£240,360
DCMS£9,538
Tudor Trust£7,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Fun-abil8y Family Hub
£240,360 15/12/2022
The funding will be used to develop a family hub to support parents and carers of disabled children and adults in the Normanton area of Derby. The hub will allow for multi-lingual support in a ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to St James Centre
£5,000 25/03/2022
over three months as additional core funding for the Roma Alliance Derby support project
Tudor Trust - Grant to St James Centre
£2,000 22/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,538 24/07/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to St James' Centre
£17,000 18/05/2018
construction of a garden play area for a charity which works with disabled people in Derby
National Lottery Community Fund - Fun-abil8y Moving Forward
£499,877 07/09/2016
60
This is the development of an existing project that aims to provide developmental and community support for young disabled people aged 3-25 with moderate to profound and complex needs. The project ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Fun-abil8y
£364,925 15/06/2011
60
Leisure and developmental activities for young disabled people with moderate to profound learning disabilities aged 8-18 living in Derby. Support will help individuals overcome social, cultural and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/01/1995, number: 1043189
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/06/1993, number: 02824422
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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: 311 days late, AR09: 19 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 58 days late,
Main office

ST. JAMES CENTRE
MALCOLM STREET
DERBY
DE23 8LU

Objectives

3. The objects of the Company are to promote the benefit of the community in Derbyshire (“the Area”), in particular, but not limited to, the City of Derby and the areas of Rose Hill, Pear Tree and New Normanton in such manner as may be charitable and in particular but not so as to limit the generality of the foregoing: 3.1 To provide or assist in the provision of facilities and services for children and adults with special needs whether physical or mental with the object of improving their conditions of life and that of their families and carers.3.2 To provide or assist in the provision of advice services to those who suffer disadvantage especially by virtue of language, ethnicity or background. 3.3 To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.3.4 To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the community in the Area.3.5 To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure-time occupation in the interests of social welfare for the inhabitants of the Area with the object of improving their conditions of life, in furtherance of the above but not otherwise.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ROSE HILL DISTRICT OF DERBY AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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