Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 8

Strong growth: +2

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 11

VOLUNTARY SECTOR NORTH WEST

To work together to enable the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector to positively shape the future of the North West

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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity only provides its support via other charities
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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		£600	£603	£-3	£0	£429	£420	8.4	11	0
31/03/22		£435	£389	£45	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	150
31/03/21		£380	£339	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
31/03/20		£275	£264	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
31/03/19		£265	£182	£83	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/18		£260	£199	£61	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£175	£148	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£193	£206	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£245	£316	£-71	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£402	£450	£-48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£384	£500	£-116	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£632	£606	£27	£11	£412	£198	3.9	7	0
31/03/11		£627	£533	£94	£8	£385	£196	4.4	8	0
31/03/10		£459	£457	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£491	£313	£178	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£276	£240	£36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£322	£316	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£166	£184	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£124	£144	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£136	£188	£-52	£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: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 8.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1

Asset Split ?

Established: 24 years

www.vsnw.org.uk

info@vsnw.org.uk

01612769300

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who works here?

11 employees

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 - VCSE Sector influencing the Future of the North West
£499,947	25/07/2023	The funding will be used to enable Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) to build a region-wide model that can accelerate learning across the North West’s sub-regional voluntary community and social ....more The funding will be used to enable Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) to build a region-wide model that can accelerate learning across the North West’s sub-regional voluntary community and social enterprise (VCSE) partnerships and provide mechanisms to drive forward the sector’s influence of local regional and national policy and best practice. It will support VSNW to deliver their core workstreams which will help achieve this ambition. Through these workstreams VSNW will help develop exemplar models of coproduction; a regional ‘fair funding’ set of principles; a Centre of Excellence for the VCSE Role in Health Creation; a strategy for building back a VCSE pipeline for skills and employment; and mechanisms so that the North West VCSE Sector can influence national policy. on have similar support and opportunity to influence policy and practice.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Voluntary Sector North West
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - VCFSE in Liverpool City Region: Equal Partner
£269,268	13/07/2021	Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) is a partnership of 11 support organisations working with the 8600 voluntary community faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) groups operating across Liverpool City ....more Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) is a partnership of 11 support organisations working with the 8600 voluntary community faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) groups operating across Liverpool City Region. Funding will enable the group to continue to deliver vital services across Liverpool.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Infrastructure grant to Voluntary Sector North West
£30,000	08/12/2020 24	Unrestricted grant over two years to Voluntary Sector North West under the Infrastructure funding programme
National Lottery Community Fund - VSNW CV19
£49,655	26/05/2020 6	Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) work through local infrastructure organisations and equalities networks to support the 30000 plus grassroots community organisations working in the North West. ....more Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) work through local infrastructure organisations and equalities networks to support the 30000 plus grassroots community organisations working in the North West. Funding for the organisation will enable them to expand their services.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-62

CIRCLE LAI YUEN STEELE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chief Executive Wai Yin Society

YAKUB PATEL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive

MARGARET YOUNG CHESHIRE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Manager

GILL BAINBRIDGE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chief Executive

JEREMY GARTH HODGKINSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeships: CARE NETWORK (BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN) LTD, BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN HEALTHY LIVING, LANCASHIRE ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE, BLACKBURN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, DARWEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION,

SALLY YEOMAN (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Executive Halton & St Helens Vca, Other trusteeship: SAINTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/07/2000, number: 1081654
Registered at Companies House on 09/05/2000, number: 03988903

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
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; AR12: 27 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

3rd Floor Swan Buildings
20 Swan Street
Manchester
M4 5JW

Objectives

3 (A) (B) (C) FROM MEMORANDUM

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND (LANCASHIRE, CHESHIRE, GREATER MANCHESTER, CUMBRIA, MERSEYSIDE)

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