Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 3
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

SOUTH DERBYSHIRE CVS 

South Derbyshire CVS is committed to the promotion and development of voluntary action within the area of South Derbyshire by providing support to groups and individuals, encouraging partnerships and collaboration, celebrating diversity and challenging bad practice and discrimination.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been 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
31/03/23£1,343£1,207£136£5£625£508530179
31/03/22£845£997£-153£4£489£419524436
31/03/21£1,012£940£73£5£642£5797.426405
31/03/20*£786£777£9£6£570£3455.325127
31/03/19£609£699£-90£2£561£4117.124118
31/03/18£682£757£-75£3£651£4276.8270
31/03/17£722£691£32£2£726£4407.7260
31/03/16£627£612£15£2£694£4328.5180
31/03/15£654£606£48£16£679£4629.2150
31/03/14£593£535£59£18£631£44910.1140
31/03/13£593£590£3£17£572£4168.5160
31/03/12£552£479£73£16£569£3659.1130
31/03/11£581£595£-14£18£496£3386.8170
31/03/10£648£660£-12£21£510£3225.9180
31/03/09£676£684£-7£27£523£3135.5180
31/03/08£649£584£66£23£530£3256.7170
31/03/07£656£578£78£76£469£3196.6170
31/03/06£599£606£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,190£792£398£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 22%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 3.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 20 years

www.sdcvs.org.uk

office@sdcvs.org.uk

01283219761

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Derbyshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 30 employees
  • 179 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 - Building Resilience - Supporting Mental Health
£9,988 06/01/2023
The funding will be used to develop a 12-month pilot project with emphasis on mental health resilience and prevention of mental ill health. The project aims to help the organisation recognise what ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Derbyshire Befriending
£25,000 15/12/2022
The funding will support South Derbyshire CVS to build on the work of its lottery funded ‘Isolation & Loneliness Action Networks Derbyshire (IsLAND)’ befriending project by further developing ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Beyond the Crisis - Building Long Term Resilience
£38,898 11/08/2020
12
South Derbyshire CVS (SDCVS) operates in a large rural area with diverse needs. They provide infrastructure support to voluntary organisations and groups and respond to local gaps in services. They ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Hubco
£49,954 10/12/2019
12
This grant will provide expert specialist advice and support to help the organisation take their model forward.
National Lottery Community Fund - The IsLand Project - Isolate & Loneliness Action Network Derbyshire
£96,599 19/02/2019
36
This funding will enable the organisation to add to and extend the services it provides across the East Midlands. This is to be achieved by providing additional accredited training and support in ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Meeting the Need
£10,000 20/05/2010
12
This is a project by this voluntary organisation in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. The group will use the funding to create and distribute an information pack designed to raise awareness of funding ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 53-69
  • KEVIN DOWNS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/01/2004, number: 1101450
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/11/2003, number: 04958843
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR20: 5 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from SOUTH DERBYSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION on 02/03/2023
Main office

The Hive
Top Floor
Unit G
Sharpes Estate
Alexandra Road
SWADLINC

Objectives

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF SOUTH DERBYSHIRE SOUTH DERBYSHIRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE ADVANCEMENT, PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS;B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTH DERBYSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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