Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

BROCKWORTH LINK

-Operating the Brockworth Community Library and related services-Managing the B-Epic Youth Club and providing other off-site youth activities-Advancement of Adult Education, Healthy Living & Personal Fitness -Advice & information regarding personal development, employment, education, and voluntary services
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£107£146£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£261£104£158n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£145£74£71n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£90£80£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£82£83£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£108£79£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£86£86£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£95£97£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£115£77£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£67£73£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£99£101£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£74£70£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£36£45£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£70£57£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£102£97£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£105£133£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£116£137£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£163£136£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£127£109£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 21 years

www.brockworthlink.org.uk

office@brockworthlink.org.uk

01452863681

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£138,453
DCMS£9,999
The Foyle Foundation£8,000
Barnwood Trust£4,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£8,000 30/04/2024
towards roof repairs
National Lottery Community Fund - IT opportunities for our community
£9,999 21/04/2023
The funding will be used to provide additional equipment to support Digihub in the library to support the community with any aspect of digital communications and issues eg printing; scanning; setting up ipads; tablets as well as supporting with blue ....more
Barnwood Trust - Gloucestershire Funders (Organisational & Group Funding)
£4,500 17/05/2022
Tackling digital exclusion
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth support for deprived areas
£6,864 04/03/2022
The funding will be used to fund an increase in the hours of the Youth Manager in order to tackle issues in the area around knife crime use of drugs anti-social behaviour in an area of Tewkesbury. The project aims to provide extra youth support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Meeting future community needs
£121,590 18/11/2021
The organisation will use the funding to hire a General Manager to support wider delivery and management of the organisation which supports the community through a range of social educational and economic programmes. The role will be responsible for ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,999 17/08/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brockworth Link
£10,000 12/06/2019
12
towards one year's salary of a General Manager at an organisation that provides community support services for disadvantaged people in Gloucestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Building our community
£8,000 25/01/2019
12
The funding will be used to run a community consultation to understand local needs for additional space in order to run more activities.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£3,000 29/06/2017
Brockworth Youth Project
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brockworth Community Project
£20,000 08/09/2016
24
towards two years' salary of the Office Manager and Volunteer Coordinator at a project providing community support services to disadvantaged people in Gloucestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - BROCKWORTH COMMUNITY PROJECT
£10,000 17/09/2014
12
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Brockworth Community Project
£18,736 28/03/2013
Brockworth Community Project provides a library, an employment skills and advice service and youth clubs for local residents. This project will provide a range of courses, advice and volunteer placements to help unemployed people to find jobs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-76
  • ADRIAN GOODE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Nhs Locality Manager
  • ALLAN CASEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • HANNAH PROSSER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • JOHN HONEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired Barrister
  • MATTHEW SPENCER COUZENS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Faculty Head Of Business Cirencester College
  • MONICA CONSTANTINESCU Appointed: 2021, Occupation: General Manager
  • NINA WALSH (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired
  • VERONICA ROCK Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/10/2003, number: 1100266
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/05/2003, number: 04754607
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
  • 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
19 returns made; AR15: 20 days late, AR09: 26 days late, AR07: 22 days late,
Main office

Brockworth Library
Moorfield Road
Brockworth
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL3 4EX

Objectives

(A) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS INCLUDING THE ELDERLY AND THE DISABLED BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF: (I) ADVICE AND INFORMATION REGARDING THEIR LEGAL ENTITLEMENTS PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) STATE BENEFITS, HOUSING CONSUMER MATTERS AND DEBT AND (II) FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO RELIEVE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM SUBSTANCE ADDICTION TOGETHER WITH THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS. (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AS ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE BENEFIT AREA SHALL PRIMARILY BE THE CIVIL PARISH OF BROCKWORTH, THE WIDER COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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