Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 1

Poor Liquidity: -1
Strong growth: +2

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

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 11

THE MARCHES ENERGY AGENCY

Marches Energy Agency (MEA) specialises in the delivery of practical, effective and creative ways of promoting and enabling energy reduction and renewable energy solutions.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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 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 is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

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		£2,148	£2,176	£-28	£0	£442	£298	1.6	41	3
31/03/22		£1,627	£1,420	£207	£0	£530	£277	2.3	27	3
31/03/21		£697	£558	£139	£0	£323	£206	4.4	24	0
31/03/20		£320	£290	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£282	£259	£23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/18		£207	£201	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£197	£200	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£185	£212	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£216	£221	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£320	£371	£-51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£443	£428	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£444	£467	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£637	£667	£-30	£88	£226	£205	3.7	18	0
31/03/10		£761	£761	£0	£108	£256	£225	3.6	19	0
31/03/09		£974	£972	£1	£105	£256	£196	2.4	19	0
31/03/08		£746	£723	£22	£55	£255	£242	4	14	0
31/03/07		£466	£387	£78	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£317	£253	£64	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£229	£216	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£200	£190	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 40%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 1.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6

Asset Split ?

Established: 26 years

www.mea.org.uk

advice@mea.org.uk

01743277106

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Climate emergency

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Derbyshire, Dudley, Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

41 employees
3 volunteers

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
National Lottery Community Fund - Fantastic Home
£9,946	14/05/2018 12	A mobile energy efficiency exhibition will be developed and toured in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. This will improve the places and spaces that matter to communities, reaching out to communities ....more A mobile energy efficiency exhibition will be developed and toured in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. This will improve the places and spaces that matter to communities, reaching out to communities in fuel poverty

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 26-72

ANGELA JOY CATTERMOLE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Business Executive

ELLIOT ALAN JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Energy Manager

FRANCES JANE CULLEN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

RUFUS STANLEY DEAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Administrator

SARAH HOPKINS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Director

CHRISTOPHER DEAVES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: HANDS TOGETHER LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE CLIMATE ACTION,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/08/1998, number: 1070942
Registered at Companies House on 02/10/1997, number: 03443349

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
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; AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

Marches Energy
The Pump House
Coton Hill
SHREWSBURY
SY1 2DP

Objectives

1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN RELATION TO ENERGY CONSERVATION THE EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY AND THE UTILISATION OF RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY;2 THE PROMOTION, CONSERVATION ENHANCEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING AND AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE MARCHES AREA OF ENGLAND AND WALES; AND3 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH BY PROMOTING THE EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY ( INCLUDING ENERGY FOR HEATING PURPOSES) AND UTILISATION OF RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTISE MARCHES AREA OF ENGLAND AND WALES

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