Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: -7

Support Score: 5

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Very static board: -5

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -8

LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY SPIRIT

Liverpool Community Spirit aims to unite people from diverse faith and cultural communities through educational, citizenship and community projects. Drawing on the insights of Liverpool's rich diversity of communities, we promote caring and inclusive community spirit across the Merseyside region.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board composition appears to be very static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/08/23		£52	£49	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/08/22		£39	£75	£-36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/08/21		£65	£104	£-39	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/08/20		£121	£118	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	32
31/08/19		£125	£124	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	32
31/08/18		£125	£120	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/17		£95	£122	£-28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16		£144	£145	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/15		£159	£142	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/14		£133	£124	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/13		£146	£122	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/12		£111	£133	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/11		£149	£200	£-51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/10		£153	£151	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/09		£156	£162	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/08		£144	£142	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/07	*	£181	£150	£31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/06		£202	£133	£68	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/05		£127	£107	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/04		£124	£120	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 22 years

www.liverpoolcommunityspirit.org

admin@community-spirit.org.uk

07734851747

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
Religious Activities

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, Wirral,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
14 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
Culham St Gabriel's Trust - Encountering Diverse Judaism
£1,986	20/10/2021	To develop further digital resources for their project
Culham St Gabriel's Trust - Encountering Diverse Judaism
£4,950	23/10/2020	This project will deliver an interactive faith encounters training programme and accompanying resources for teachers of RE, focusing on promoting well-informed and inspired teaching of Judaism at Key ....more This project will deliver an interactive faith encounters training programme and accompanying resources for teachers of RE, focusing on promoting well-informed and inspired teaching of Judaism at Key Stage 3 and GCSE. It will develop teacher (and hence pupil) understanding of diversity within the Jewish community, in terms of belief, practice and approaches to relevant contemporary moral and social issues. This will empower teachers and pupils to combat ignorance, negative attitudes and stereotyping with respect to the Jewish faith and community, including recent rises in anti-Semitism.
Culham St Gabriel's Trust - Encountering Diverse Judaism
£4,950	23/10/2020	This project will deliver an interactive faith encounters training programme and accompanying resources for teachers of RE, focusing on promoting well-informed and inspired teaching of Judaism at Key ....more This project will deliver an interactive faith encounters training programme and accompanying resources for teachers of RE, focusing on promoting well-informed and inspired teaching of Judaism at Key Stage 3 and GCSE. It will develop teacher (and hence pupil) understanding of diversity within the Jewish community, in terms of belief, practice and approaches to relevant contemporary moral and social issues. This will empower teachers and pupils to combat ignorance, negative attitudes and stereotyping with respect to the Jewish faith and community, including recent rises in anti-Semitism.
National Lottery Community Fund - C.H.A.N.G.E. (Cultural Heritage Awareness Nurturing Growth & Empowerment)
£293,503	07/09/2017 36	This is a development of an existing project delivered in Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley. The project provides a long-term personal development and wellbeing programme for adults across Merseyside ....more This is a development of an existing project delivered in Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley. The project provides a long-term personal development and wellbeing programme for adults across Merseyside with experience of offending, addiction recovery and mental ill health. The unique approach works by welcoming them into a variety of home living-room environments which incorporate reflective activities that enable people to voice their views and use their experiences to look to a better future.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Liverpool Community Spirit
£31,500	27/11/2013	Mapping the faith history and heritage of Liverpool through people and the built environment
National Lottery Community Fund - De Hungry Must Be Fed
£447,971	12/10/2011 60	The project will address re-offending rates of offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending who also have mental health and drug addiction issues. The project will run community workshops ....more The project will address re-offending rates of offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending who also have mental health and drug addiction issues. The project will run community workshops promoting cultural harmony and encourage participants to become volunteer mentors on future courses, as well as volunteering for other local community projects and events. The project aims to promote positive attitudes to lifestyles, aid community integration, and reduce prejudice, fear, and racism._x000B__x000B_
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Liverpool Community Spirit
£20,000	28/07/2011	the salary of the Co-ordinator

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 66-80

JANE PATRICIA GIRVAN Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Training And Recruitment Consultant

KATHRYN AVTAR YATES Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired

SYLVIA FRENCH (Chair) Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Retired

ANDREW HOLROYD Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeship: MICAH LIVERPOOL,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/06/2002, number: 1092689
Registered at Companies House on 05/03/2002, number: 04387024

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR07: 148 days late,

Main office

20 St. James Road
LIVERPOOL
L1 7BY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE WITHIN THE AREA OF MERSEYSIDE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THE ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING AS FOLLOWS:(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION ATTAINMENT, CITIZENSHIP ASPIRATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL AND MERSEYSIDE, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM DISADVANTAGED MINORITY COMMUNITIES.(2) TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP, COMMUNITY SERVICE, CARE AND CONCERN FOR COMMUNITY (INCLUDING BOTH PEOPLE AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT) AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL AND MERSEYSIDE AND SUBSEQUENTLY (THROUGH GOOD EXAMPLE AND SHARED PRACTICE) OTHER MULTI-CULTURAL CITY COMMUNITIES.(3) ADVANCE EDUCATION IN UNDERSTANDING AND TOLERANCE WITHIN AND BETWEEN THE DIVERSE FAITH, CULTURAL AND RACIAL COMMUNITIES OF THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL.(4) THE CHARITY SHALL BE NON-PARTY IN POLITICS AND SHALL PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

MERSEYSIDE

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