Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

GRANGE & DISTRICT U3A 

Education of Mature People by self discovery and tuition.Non Profit making educational self supporting study, including community development , interest in the environment and heritage and providing a study framework and guidance together with resources on a voluntary basis.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests 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
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 21 years

www.communigate.co.uk/lakes/grangeanddistrict

gj.grangeu3a@gmail.com

01539535358

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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
28/02/23£13£13£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
28/02/22£9£10£-1n/an/an/an/an/a0
28/02/21£8£6£2n/an/an/an/an/a0
29/02/20£20£17£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
28/02/19£30£31£-1n/an/an/an/an/a0
28/02/18£9£8£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/17£7£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/16£6£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/15£6£6£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/14£6£5£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/13£4£4£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/12£4£3£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/11£4£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/10?£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£6£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£6£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£8£8£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£3£2£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£5£5£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/04/2003, number: 1096833
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR09: 38 days late,
Main office

48 Priory Lane
GRANGE-OVER-SANDS
LA11 7BJ

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE RETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK, BY ALL MEANS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GRANGE-OVER-SANDS AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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