Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 2
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

RENAISSANCE-UK LTD

Mission statementDrugline-Lancashire through diverse and needs led responses aims to deliver a high quality service mindful of the complexities and ever changing face of drug use and sexual health through offering routes of change in a holistic manner, promoting always the highest quality of life possible
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

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£1,380£1,228£152£0£600£6005.92820
31/03/22£1,019£997£22£0£448£4485.4230
31/03/21£955£865£90£0£426£4265.9210
31/03/20£962£1,010£-48£0£336£3364240
31/03/19£939£1,033£-93£0£384£3844.52730
31/03/18£955£1,025£-70£0£478£4745.5300
31/03/17£875£906£-31£0£547£5477.2270
31/03/16*£876£995£-119£0£579£5416.5290
31/03/15£1,225£1,222£4£5£698£6596.5350
31/03/14£1,559£1,520£39£36£694£5144.1420
31/03/13£1,437£1,394£43£37£655£4904.2500
31/03/12£1,551£1,535£15£20£612£4363.4550
31/03/11£1,699£1,734£-35£43£597£4252.9590
31/03/10£1,775£1,779£-4£43£632£4563.1640
31/03/09£1,273£1,256£17£34£635£4594.4470
31/03/08£912£1,003£-90£33£618£2653.2440
31/03/07£1,028£1,065£-37£33£708£3333.8540
31/03/06£1,142£1,084£58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£1,234£1,054£180n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£907£939£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 23%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 3.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 25 years

www.ren-uk.co.uk

enquiries@ren-uk.com

01253311431

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Blackburn With Darwen, Blackpool, Cumbria, Lancashire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,311 18/09/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Renaissance - UK
£2,980 22/04/2020
3
Grant to Renaissance - UK to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - The Big Sexy Bus; reaching out with sexual health
£9,940 28/06/2017
12
The funding will be used to customise and fit-out a bus for use as a mobile sexual health information and testing point. The project aims to improve people’s health by improving access to early testing and intervention as well as reducing the ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Drugline Lancashire Limited
£114,416 11/10/2016
36
Child and Young person's ISVA service will deliver specialist counselling including CBT techniques, peer and group work interventions to help empower and heal, offer support with criminal proceedings and the court process and develop peer support.
National Lottery Community Fund - HIV Voices Together
£10,000 29/04/2015
12
The organisation will use the funding to establish the skills, needs and issues of the local HIV community and use this information to enable people living with HIV to impact local services and create a voice for themselves. This will challenge the ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 41-72
  • DORNA GHASHGHAEI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Pharmacist
  • JANELLA CHRISTINE MARY ANDERSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Registered Mental Health Nurse
  • LIANNE EDWARDS (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Nurse
  • PAM ISHERWOOD Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired
  • YVONNE BAIRSTOW Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Associate Lecturer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/06/1999, number: 1076154
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/03/1999, number: 03723917
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
  • 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; AR16: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 30 days late,
Main office

102 DICKSON ROAD
BLACKPOOL
FY1 2BU

Objectives

(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS DEPENDENT UPON OR AFFECTED OR ADDICTED TO DRUGS AND THEIR FAMILIES;(B) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION TRAINING AND REHABILITATION OF ANY PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM THE EFFECTS OF DRUG MISUSE;(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ANY ASPECTS OF AND METHODS OF THE PREVENTION OF DRUG MISUSE;(D) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT OF THOSE AFFECTED BY HIV AND BBV OR IN NEED OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND BBV AWARENESSWITHIN LANCASHIRE

Defined Area of Benefit:

LANCASHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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