Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

THE LAURIES LTD 

To promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community within Birkenhead and Tranmere and surrounding areas (area of benefit) advancement of education, promotion of good health, providing a focus for development and regeneration.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • 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£259£338£-79n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£404£455£-50n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£242£255£-13n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£278£261£17n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£273£270£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£191£186£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£164£169£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16?£155£116£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/15£186£179£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/14*£142£136£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/13*£153£164£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/12*£189£192£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/11*£176£193£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/10£178£184£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/09*£150£185£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/08*£167£149£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/07*£141£123£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/06*£45£59£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/05*£2£2£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years

https://www.thelauries.org

info@thelauries.org

01516505555

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Wirral,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 32-51
  • EMA WILKES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/03/2004, number: 1102607
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/05/2003, number: 04768755
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR14: 8 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR11: 222 days late, AR09: 1 days late, AR08: 68 days late, AR07: 120 days late, AR06: 866 days late, AR05: 121 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from COMMUNITY ACTION WIRRAL on 12/08/2022
Main office

Lauries Centre
142 Claughton Road
BIRKENHEAD
Merseyside
CH41 6EY

Objectives

The Charity's objects (the objects) are to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community within Birkenhead, areas within the Wirral peninsular and areas surrounding (the area of benefit) by (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) the advancement of education, the promotion of good health and providing a focus for development and regeneration.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BIRKENHEAD AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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