Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 8

Strong growth: +2
Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 7

DOVECOT AND PRINCESS DRIVE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Education/TrainingProvide social activities for the elderlyEncourage local people to give ideas for local communityEncourage other groups to use the premisesProvide services for community benefit to disadvantaged groups

Analysis by Giving is Great

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There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Income was lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

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		£135	£160	£-25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/22?		£145	£151	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/09/20		£64	£12	£52	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
30/09/19		£9	£9	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/09/18	*	£8	£7	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/17	*	£8	£8	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/16	*	£8	£7	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/15	*	£8	£7	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/14	*	£7	£6	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/13?	*	£6	£6	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/11	*	£11	£10	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/10		£16	£6	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/09		£16	£9	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/08		£4	£41	£-37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/07		£26	£46	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/06		£21	£13	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/05		£36	£77	£-40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/09/04	*	£70	£78	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 27 years

jgthedrive@gmail.com

01512597498

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Social clubs and similar

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Liverpool City,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
12 volunteers

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	28/11/2023	towards renovation of the community garden
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Drive to Succeed
£9,656	21/04/2023	To provide support to NEET people in disadvantaged areas through interview training, CV building, interpersonal skills, and courses. They can also support participants in acquiring interview attire, ....more To provide support to NEET people in disadvantaged areas through interview training, CV building, interpersonal skills, and courses. They can also support participants in acquiring interview attire, food, debt advice, and child care.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community coronation celebration
£9,980	28/03/2023	The funding will be used to celebrate the Kings Coronation and highlight community volunteers. The project aims to encourage the diverse community to come together for a day of craft activities such ....more The funding will be used to celebrate the Kings Coronation and highlight community volunteers. The project aims to encourage the diverse community to come together for a day of craft activities such as children’s bunting making a fancy dress competition food and music without financial barriers.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - The Drive
£2,985	10/10/2022	To run a series of diversionary activities including crafts, upcycling, a community mural, movie nights, Halloween disco, 1-2-1 appointments for struggling youth, and community engagement following ....more To run a series of diversionary activities including crafts, upcycling, a community mural, movie nights, Halloween disco, 1-2-1 appointments for struggling youth, and community engagement following recent local tragedies resulting from violent crime.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Vertical Garden at The Drive
£4,722	18/08/2022	To transform the garden space into a vertical food garden and zen space.
National Lottery Community Fund - Queen's Jubilee Party
£8,750	08/04/2022	The funding will be used to organize a street party for the community to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on Friday 3rd June. The project aims to give the community the opportunity to come ....more The funding will be used to organize a street party for the community to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on Friday 3rd June. The project aims to give the community the opportunity to come together and share in festivities as well as showcasing local groups activities and organisations and for guests from different areas and ethnic groups to socialise and build new relationships.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Coast: Arts and Music for the Jubilee in Liverpool
£33,151	03/03/2022	The funding will be used to deliver arts and music activities bringing together various groups across ages abilities and ethnic backgrounds across various intersecting identities and needs within the ....more The funding will be used to deliver arts and music activities bringing together various groups across ages abilities and ethnic backgrounds across various intersecting identities and needs within the local community. The organisation will provide the local community with shared access to instruments musical instruments DJ turntables and music production software art supplies and tutoring. The project aims to teach participants a lifelong skill whilst providing them with the option to share their new talents via an end of program exhibition. It will focus on addressing a ‘Poverty of Opportunity’ which is preventing people in financial hardship from accessing the Arts and developing their inner creativity and performance skills. This will give access to the wider community who experience restrictive costs for equipment and tutoring. It will also create a community lending facility for musical instruments.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Dovecot and Princess Drive Community Association (The Drive)
£29,100	15/12/2020	This project provides breakfast and lunch clubs for children affected by poverty and deprivation who don't always have access to food and provisions. The project aims to reduce food poverty and ....more This project provides breakfast and lunch clubs for children affected by poverty and deprivation who don't always have access to food and provisions. The project aims to reduce food poverty and social isolation, and to lessen the disadvantage experienced.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£8,260	17/07/2020	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 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 and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid Emergency Response
£10,000	07/05/2020 12	The funding will be used to deliver an emergency food response to support the ongoing cost of buying food during the COVID-19 pandemic. The food bank has experienced an increase in demand for ....more The funding will be used to deliver an emergency food response to support the ongoing cost of buying food during the COVID-19 pandemic. The food bank has experienced an increase in demand for emergency food including people who have been made redundant lost their businesses or seen self-employment income disappear as well as from those who are vulnerable or self-isolating.

Amount

When
Months

To be used for

The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants

£5,000

28/11/2023

towards renovation of the community garden

Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Drive to Succeed

£9,656

21/04/2023

To provide support to NEET people in disadvantaged areas through interview training, CV building, interpersonal skills, and courses. They can also support participants in acquiring interview attire, ....more

National Lottery Community Fund - Community coronation celebration

£9,980

28/03/2023

The funding will be used to celebrate the Kings Coronation and highlight community volunteers. The project aims to encourage the diverse community to come together for a day of craft activities such ....more

Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - The Drive

£2,985

10/10/2022

To run a series of diversionary activities including crafts, upcycling, a community mural, movie nights, Halloween disco, 1-2-1 appointments for struggling youth, and community engagement following ....more

Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Vertical Garden at The Drive

£4,722

18/08/2022

To transform the garden space into a vertical food garden and zen space.

National Lottery Community Fund - Queen's Jubilee Party

£8,750

08/04/2022

The funding will be used to organize a street party for the community to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on Friday 3rd June. The project aims to give the community the opportunity to come ....more

National Lottery Community Fund	£61,881
BBC Children in Need	£29,100
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside	£17,363
DCMS	£8,260
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000

DOVECOT AND PRINCESS DRIVE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

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