Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

WECIL LTD

WECIL works to enable disabled people to live life without barriers. We are a non-profit organisation run by and for disabled people, delivering information, skills, support and services to give disabled people the same level of choice and control as the wider community. Since 1995 we have worked to challenge restrictions and change possibilities for disabled people in the South West.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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*£1,440£1,574£-134£131£1,112£7735.943114
31/03/22£1,687£1,390£297£72£1,257£7846.84079
31/03/21£1,530£1,310£220£93£940£7807.13996
31/03/20£1,281£1,360£-79£112£644£6105.436126
31/03/19£1,131£1,252£-121£95£762£7256.952102
31/03/18£1,070£1,282£-212£94£871£7547.1340
31/03/17£1,009£1,198£-189£95£1,079£6916.9330
31/03/16*£1,649£1,042£608£121£1,227£5936.8290
31/03/15£999£975£24£138£609£5887.2280
31/03/14£1,072£1,034£38£134£585£5786.7270
31/03/13£1,016£976£40£126£547£5096.3270
31/03/12£1,103£1,052£51£14£507£4525.2270
31/03/11£1,018£1,027£-9£8£456£4505.3250
31/03/10£1,047£1,049£-2£8£467£4084.7260
31/03/09£985£934£52£6£467£4275.5320
31/03/08£968£990£-21£104£416£2933.6330
31/03/07*£1,099£1,032£67£75£437£2693.1340
31/03/06£1,219£1,162£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,067£1,043£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£912£837£75n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 26%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 70%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 29 years

www.wecil.co.uk

reception@wecil.co.uk

01179479911

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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£336,627
Quartet Community Foundation£201,839
BBC Children in Need£98,261
DCMS£95,714
Three Guineas Trust£61,238
The Clothworkers Foundation£34,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Three Guineas Trust - Extra hours for PIP Navigator to support disabled people with form filling and through to appeals.
£61,238 27/03/2024
Extra hours for PIP (Personal Independence Payment) Navigator to support disabled people with form filling and through to appeals.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£50,000 23/11/2023
23
To undertake the role of a Community Hub for Disabled people from Somali and other refugee communities.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£4,909 16/11/2023
5
Towards a telephone befriending scheme for disabled people to reduce loneliness and encourage engagement with additional intervention services and community activities.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to WECIL LTD
£30,000 18/10/2023
Purchase of a digital programme for a charity which works with disabled people in Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£29,370 31/05/2023
Funding to ensure continued provision for the Play and Youth Sector between the June and October period.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£4,150 20/12/2022
'Know Your Rights', a peer advocacy group (for adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism) that will raise awareness of support/resources to help with the cost of living.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£24,222 27/09/2022
For a Community Connections Navigator role, who will be the first point of contact for most people accessing the WECIL's services.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£4,996 17/08/2022
To support WECIL's climate action plan, including empowering disabled people to take accessible steps to reduce energy usage, helping them to save money and reduce carbon emissions.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bristol Disability Equality Commission Listening & Talking with Disabled People
£9,900 05/08/2022
The funding will be used to carry out a city wide engagement exercise with disabled people to find out about the issues that are most important to them and feedback will be analysed and used to develop an action plan. The project aims to better ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Click & Chat Community
£326,727 24/02/2022
The project is using funding to establish a fully accessible personalised information and support service for disabled people living in Bristol and the West of England. The project aims to respond to the immediate support needs of disabled people ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Share & Connect
£38,532 21/06/2021
23
Toward the Share & Connect befriending service, which will provide guidance, support and befriending to isolated disabled people and support the group's organisational development plans to create a single diagnostic/triage entry point into its ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£97,761 18/12/2020
This project will deliver youth clubs for disabled children and young people. The activities will result in an increase influence on services that affect their lives, reduced isolation and increased independent living skills.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£95,714 11/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£11,660 30/06/2020
Towards core-costs not covered by Youth Service Grant/Contract Funding. The core costs enable WECIL to operate all back-office functions and maintain the organisation.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to WECIL LTD
£4,800 01/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with people with disabilities in Bristol
Quartet Community Foundation - Working Together
£34,000 05/02/2020
The second year of a three year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards running costs of the 'Working Together' project providing employment support and training opportunities for disabled people in Bristol and the West of England.
Quartet Community Foundation - Organisational Merger
£2,852 03/06/2019
4
Towards the costs of merging with Time 2 Share to provide befriending services to young disabled people in Bristol and the surrounding area.
Quartet Community Foundation - Working Together
£33,800 21/09/2018
The first year of a three year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards running costs of the 'Working Together' project providing employment support and training opportunities for disabled people in Bristol and the West of England.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to West of England Centre for Inclusive Living (WECIL)
£100,200 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Working Together' project providing employment support and training opportunities for disabled people in Bristol and the west of England
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£26,098 01/04/2018
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Quartet Community Foundation - Disabled Peoples Benefits Advice support for Somali Families
£4,743 03/01/2018
11
Toward a Disabled People's Benefits Advice support service for Somali families.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to WECIL Ltd
£119,862 17/10/2017
36
This project will provide inclusive support and activities for disabled and disadvantaged children and young people. The sesssions will help break down barriers between disabled and non-disabled young people, improve confidence and help build new ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£49,728 01/04/2017
Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
Quartet Community Foundation - WECIL Youth Trustee Board
£3,600 13/03/2017
12
To establish a shadow board comprising of young disabled people at a charity supporting disabled people in the West of England
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Support Plus
£346,682 27/07/2016
36
This is the expansion of a project reducing loneliness and isolation for disabled people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North and North East Somerset, and Bath. Meetings, drop-in sessions and activities will be offered by volunteers, many of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Support Project
£478,026 09/03/2011
60
This is a new project that will facilitate peer support for disabled people in the Bristol and the immediate surrounding area, bringing them together to learn from each other, share experiences and provide social and emotional support to each other. ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-74
  • DEEANNE DEIRDRE KLEIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Housing Policy And Practice Manager Local Govt
  • ELISE HURCOMBE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Local Authority Officer
  • FRANCES BATHURST Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Nhs Officer
  • JOHN DOLTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Consultant
  • KAREN AMEGASHITSI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • LINDI DOY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Television Media Professional
  • NATASHA HARRISON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Volunteer
  • RUTH PICKERSGILL MBE, BA,MA (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired
  • STEVE STRONG Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired
  • VICKI KAYE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/03/1996, number: 1053515
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/03/1995, number: 03030167
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • Investment
  • 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; AR23: 23 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR07: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from TIME2SHARE on 08/02/2020
Main office

Wecil
The Vassall Centre
Gill Avenue
BRISTOL
BS16 2QQ

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS PRINCIPALLY WITHIN THE WEST OF ENGLAND WHO ARE DISABLED BY PROVIDING OR ENCOURAGING THE PROVISION OF SERVICES WHICH FACILITATE INDEPENDENCE IN DAILY LIVING ACTIVITIES, ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN, AND FULL INTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST OF ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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