Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

SHEFFIELD MENCAP

We are the largest local provider of services for people with a learning disability and their family carers in Sheffield. We currently work with over 700 people with a learning disability and their family carers, providing a wide range of activities and support services to enable them to live fair, full and happy lives
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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 well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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£946£870£76£8£987£94713.150100
31/03/22£1,058£914£145£9£911£82210.848120
31/03/21*£1,109£892£217£16£766£6588.947100
31/03/20£898£895£3£47£549£4435.952170
31/03/19£766£775£-9£36£546£4827.552182
31/03/18£745£741£3£22£555£5248.5480
31/03/17£816£813£3£0£554£4917.2550
31/03/16*£727£879£-152£0£551£5086.9550
31/03/15£751£843£-92£21£702£6879.8270
31/03/14£849£926£-77£20£794£77610.1250
31/03/13£902£872£31£30£871£79010.9350
31/03/12£932£860£72£23£840£78010.9520
31/03/11£898£845£52£18£768£6168.7370
31/03/10£962£716£247£23£716£5349360
31/03/09£823£705£118£21£544£4597.8330
31/03/08£644£548£96£21£427£3718.1270
31/03/07*£501£476£25£11£331£2867.2190
31/03/06*£390£397£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£437£440£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£799£891£-92n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 13.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 9.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 28 years

www.sheffieldmencap.org.uk

daveswindlehurst@sheffieldmencap.org.uk

01142767757

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Sheffield City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

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£284,974
Henry Smith Charity£120,000
BBC Children in Need£116,536
Lloyds Bank Foundation£10,220
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sheffield Mencap 'Lions and Lionesses' Football Groups
£1,057 21/10/2023
To run our learning disability football groups, we need funds to hire a pitch and provide a disability specialist coach. We would love to be able to fund transport so we can play in away matches too.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Carers Support Service
£264,974 21/04/2023
36
The project will use the funding over three years to employ two support staff to deliver activities that will help unpaid carers of adults and children with learning disabilities autism or complex support needs. This aims to reduce isolation and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching the wider learning disability community in Sheffield
£10,000 20/01/2023
The funding will be used towards the salary of a specialist marketeer with an understanding of the needs of the local learning disability community who will undertake targeted market research to discover which groups of people living with a learning ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sheffield Mencap and Gateway
£1,672 22/10/2022
We would like to provide a fitness and wellbeing group for adults with learning disabilities in Sheffield.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sheffield Mencap and Gateway
£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’
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Sheffield Mencap and Gateway - 26/08/21
£1,500 07/09/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteering programme
£10,000 13/08/2021
The funding will be used to employ a Volunteer and Placement Coordinator who will support the running and recovery of the volunteering programme which has been negatively affected by Covid-19 pandemic. The project aims to build the capacity to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sheffield Mencap and Gateway
£29,459 18/12/2020
This project will provide weekly youth club sessions including creative activities, baking and game nights for young people with learning disabilities and/or Autism. The project aims for increased independence, improved wellbeing and making friends.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sheffield Mencap and Gateway
£3,011 24/10/2020
We would like to establish a fitness and wellbeing group, called Fitness Fanatics, for adults with learning disabilities in Sheffield.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Sheffield Mencap & Gateway
£120,000 16/09/2020
36
towards three years' salary and on costs of a Chief Executive at a organisation providing support and activities for people with learning disabilities in Sheffield.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Sheffield Mencap
£10,220 24/07/2020
Grant to Sheffield Mencap meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sheffield Mencap and Gateway
£86,577 24/04/2020
36
This project will support children with learning disabilities or autism in Sheffield with three communications programmes. It will result in improved wellbeing, social communication skills and confidence.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sheffield Mencap
£20,000 07/11/2019
refurbishment of toilet and changing facilities for a charity which works with people with disabilities in Sheffield
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Coordinator Salary
£10,000 03/10/2019
12
Volunteer Coordinator Salary
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Sheffield Mencap
£14,846 20/09/2019
12
Sheffield Mencap is requesting funding to trial a project to provide People with Learning Disabilities supported volunteering opportunities that may lead into paid employment opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - COPe
£316,560 22/11/2018
36
Carers Outreach Project (COPe)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sheffield Mencap & Gateway - Shine out on Saturdays
£4,375 19/11/2018
We want to run a performing arts club on Saturday mornings for children with learning disabilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Healthy Lifestyle Project
£9,978 10/05/2018
12
The group will deliver a healthy lifestyle project for families with children who have learning disabilities to increase their confidence and self-esteem by becoming healthier through physical activity and learning about healthy eating.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sheffield Mencap and Gateway
£30,000 13/03/2018
36
This project will deliver a Friday night youth project for disabled children and young people in Sheffield. Confidence and health will increase and relationships will be improved.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000 26/09/2017
24
Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - A New Website for Sheffield Mencap & Gateway
£4,400 11/04/2017
12
The group will create a new website, ensuring it is accessible to people with moderate to severe lifelong learning disabilities, their families and carers.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sheffield Mencap and Gateway
£32,375 11/10/2016
36
This project will deliver a weekly communication, socialisation and confidence group to young people from Sheffield.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Sheffield Mencap
£155,800 07/12/2012
Empowering Older Families Project enables older families who are caring for an older person with a Learning Disability to access appropriate advice and support in order that families can stay together for longer.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Missing Link Website
£10,000 30/06/2011
12
This charity in Sheffield will use funding to develop a website for people living with learning disabilities. This will provide families with an online resource that will provide information and advice, and access to social activities in the area.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 26-77
  • ADAM JOZEF TKACZ MBA Appointed: 2021
  • BRIGITTE DELANEY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Study Manager
  • CATHERINE ANNE SHEPHERD Appointed: 2023
  • JOANNE THOMPSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Senior University Lecturer
  • JUDITH BADGER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Work And Wellbeing Manager
  • KATY PUGH (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Unemployed
  • MIKE BAXTER Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired
  • STANLEY CROALL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Auditor
  • XIAOYAN FU Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Teacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/06/1996, number: 1056155
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/03/1996, number: 03168775
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
  • 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; AR21: 1 days late, AR16: 25 days late, AR07: 21 days late, AR06: 29 days late, AR05: 37 days late, AR04: 117 days late,
Main office

NORFOLK LODGE
PARK GRANGE ROAD
SHEFFIELD
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
S2 3QF

Objectives

A) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. AND:B) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SHEFFIELD AND IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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