Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 9
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

START IN SALFORD 

START is a Salford based mental health charity that uses creativity, connection and recovery interventions to help improve people's lives. We are passionate about delivering the very best support for the people in our community who we are lucky enough to meet through our work and providing them with pathways into training, employment, volunteering and leisure pursuits.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£1,316£1,232£84£0£684£6376.23615
31/03/22£916£831£84£0£600£5117.42727
31/03/21£924£775£149£0£516£4166.42240
31/03/20£901£800£101£0£367£3665.52250
31/03/19£754£765£-11£0£264£2213.52250
31/03/18£765£842£-76£0£275£2213.2180
31/03/17£776£850£-74£110£351£2583.6160
31/03/16£814£774£39£113£425£2704.2170
31/03/15£832£709£122£72£386£3085.2110
31/03/14£651£760£-110£83£263£2604.1110
31/03/13£769£750£18£84£373£3665.9120
31/03/12£756£711£44£85£354£3435.8130
31/03/11£735£1,449£-714£73£310£3052.5110
31/03/10£600£789£-189£48£1,024£97814.9100
31/03/09*£641£660£-19£43£1,213£1,15220.9110
31/03/08*£638£570£68£45£1,233£1,14124120
31/03/07*£519£466£53£24£1,165£1,07727.7120
31/03/06*£357£421£-64£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£581£292£289£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£1,033£251£781£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 93%
Reserves/Spending: 6.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 4
Asset Split ?
Established: 24 years

www.startinsalford.org.uk

info@startinsalford.org.uk

01613516000

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Specialty hospitals (incl psychiatric and substance abuse)
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Manchester City, Salford City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 36 employees
  • 15 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Wolfson Foundation£67,000
DCMS£45,589
National Lottery Community Fund£29,916
The Baring Foundation£12,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to START in Salford
£67,000 06/12/2023
Replacement of windows in building (Brunswick House) providing mental health services
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer Support Creative Arts Sessions for Suicide Attempt Survivors
£9,999 02/12/2022
The funding will be used to deliver weekly creative art workshops for people who have survived suicide attempts. The project aims to build coping skills teach transferable skills and create peer ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to START Inspiring Minds
£12,000 14/09/2020
The creation of a covered outdoor studio and equipment in our garden to help us to begin to return to face to face art sessions for small groups.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£45,589 25/06/2020
"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 ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Start in Salford
£1,500 06/05/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that helps integrate those with mental health issues into their communities in Greater Manchester
National Lottery Community Fund - Salford Wood for Good
£10,000 18/10/2019
12
Salford Wood for Good
National Lottery Community Fund - Turn Yellow for Suicide Prevention
£9,917 14/06/2019
12
The project aims to provide support and guidance for people at risk of suicide. The funding will be used to raise awareness for the prevention of suicide.
National Lottery Community Fund - Start+
£157,234 29/10/2018
36
This funding is for a three-year project to support people who are homeless, refugees and asylum seekers and those in recovery from addiction. The project includes creative arts and horticulture ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Reach Out: Start to End Suicide - 'Sea of Hands of Support'
£9,710 07/03/2018
12
The group will engage people across Salford to gather messages for their "Sea of Hands of Support" project - a visual message to say that people care about mental illness and issues that ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Start in Salford
£25,000 28/04/2017
New windows for a charity which works with disabled people
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Start in Salford
£14,948 16/12/2015
12
providing arts training to improve the health, well being and quality of life of those in the surrounding area of Salford. The grant will fund the STARTwork programme for those who are long term ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creativity in Care
£467,650 14/11/2014
60
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Start in Salford
£77,600 11/09/2014
36
towards three years' salary of the Community Integration Worker at a project in Greater Manchester that provides support to people with mental health issues who are coming to the end of their ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Start in Salford
£22,000 29/06/2012
the salary of the Arts Development Worker
National Lottery Community Fund - Pathways to Personal Empowerment
£161,584 07/03/2011
60
This new project will work with people with mental health problems, depression, stress and anxiety issues in Salford. It will offer a range of creative arts services to improve the quality of life of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Start' in the Park
£50,000 22/11/2010
11
This project will develop unused parkland in Salford's Buile Hill Park into a community growing space. The project will provide the setting for local people from all backgrounds to meet and engage in ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/01/2000, number: 1078837
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/06/1999, number: 03785437
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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; AR09: 24 days late, AR08: 7 days late, AR07: 35 days late, AR06: 35 days late, AR05: 57 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

START IN SALFORD
62 BROAD STREET
SALFORD
M6 5BZ

Objectives

TO PURSUE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE THAT IMPROVES THE HEALTH, WELLBEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE FROM SALFORD AND THE WIDER NORTH WEST REGION WHO? (A) ARE AT RISK OF SUFFERING, HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS; (B) ARE OTHERWISE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED; IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: I) THE PROMOTION OF ARTS BASED ACTIVITIES; AND II) RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE GRADE 2 LISTED BUILDING BRUNSWICK HOUSE AND PROVIDING FOR ITS USE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD AND THE WIDER NORTH WEST REGION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SALFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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