Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

THE HORBURY HERITAGE COMMUNITY BUILDING PRESERVATION AND MANAGEMENT TRUST LTD 

Horbury Heritage Trust, on behalf of the community, is watchful of land, listed and non-listed buildings within Horbury. It is trustee of Primrose Hall Charity. The hall is a vibrant community assett employing a part-time Caretaker and Hall Administrator with voluntary helpers. It is also in the process of negotiating a lease with Wakefield Council to take over management of Green Park, Horbury.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/12/23£15£6£9n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/22£19£1£18n/an/an/an/an/a21
31/12/21£3£0£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/20£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£1£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£0£1£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£1£0£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£1£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£2£1£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£1£0£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£3£0£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£3£7£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£7£18£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£8£8£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£13£13£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£9£3£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£14£9£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 22 years

heritagetrusthorbury@gmail.com

01924272619

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • City Of Wakefield,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Green Park Horbury Footpaths
£10,000 09/06/2023
The funding will be used to improve the footpaths in Green Park Horbury. The project aims to improve the facilities for community use.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-86
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/05/2002, number: 1091935
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/12/2000, number: 04122636
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 17 days late,
Main office

36 BEECHWOOD GROVE
HORBURY
WAKEFIELD
WF4 5JQ

Objectives

The object of the charity is to preserve for the benefit of the people of Horbury and of the Nation, the historical uses, and architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and around Horbury in buildings (including any building as defined in Section 336 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) of particular beauty or historical, architectural, constructional or local interest, together with land and land use.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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