Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 5

Poor Liquidity: -1

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 9

COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (YORK) LTD

Our Charity has three main aims. We primarily assist people in need, chiefly through the provision of donated household goods and new furniture and white goods at affordable prices. We also offer training and work experience placements and employment. We protect the environment by collecting items that would otherwise go to waste. We work with City of York Council and charities to furnish homes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

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		£678	£678	£0	£0	£106	£83	1.5	11	34
31/03/22		£625	£630	£-6	£0	£106	£93	1.8	16	6
31/03/21		£573	£577	£-4	£0	£111	£109	2.3	14	25
31/03/20		£573	£565	£8	£0	£118	£118	2.5	12	120
31/03/19		£549	£538	£11	£0	£110	£101	2.3	13	35
31/03/18		£499	£550	£-52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£545	£536	£9	£0	£150	£142	3.2	13	0
31/03/16	*	£509	£465	£43	£0	£141	£126	3.2	14	0
31/03/15		£350	£376	£-27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£372	£365	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£327	£348	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£344	£329	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£328	£316	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£305	£283	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£277	£295	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£261	£245	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£93	£92	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 28%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 79%
Reserves/Spending: 1.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.6

Asset Split ?

Established: 18 years

http://communityfurniturestore.co.uk/wordpres

01904426444

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Other Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Technical, vocational and continuing education

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides services

Where it operates

City Of York,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

11 employees
34 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust	£7,000
The Shears Foundation	£5,500
CAF	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Shears Foundation - Community Furniture Store (York) Ltd
£5,500	08/04/2024 12	IT Reuse Project
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - IT ReUse
£7,000	15/02/2022	Funding towards running an IT Re-Use Scheme, which provides hardware and software to people experiencing digital poverty in York by reconditioning and distributing donated devices
CAF - Grant to Community Furniture Store (York) Ltd
£5,000	08/06/2020 3	Grant to Community Furniture Store (York) Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting vulnerable households through the COVID-19 crisis
£10,000	24/04/2020 12	The funding will be used to enable the organisation to meet increased demand to deliver essential furniture and electrical goods to people in crisis due to COVID-19 and other circumstances.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Purchasing a second-hand van for collections and deliveries
£5,000	16/02/2016	To purchase a third delivery van to support their busy collection and delivery services to the community

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 48-82

DAVID JAMES NASH (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charitable Foundation Partner Manager, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

NICHOLAS THOMAS DENNISON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Homes Charitable Foundation, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

PRAKASH MISTRY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Management Accountant, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

TIMOTHY JOHN LEONARD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing Director, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

VERA VAN GOOL Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

DR MATTHEW FARRELLY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Engineer, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

GRAHAM MITCHELL Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

TOM JENKINS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (SELBY) LIMITED, COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (RYEDALE) LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/06/2006, number: 1114605
Registered at Companies House on 20/03/2006, number: 05748697

Gift Aid

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
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

17 returns made; AR16: 22 days late,

Main office

Unit 29 Raylor Centre
James Street
YORK
YO10 3DW

Objectives

a. To relieve generally or individually persons who are in conditions of need, hardship, or distress for reasons including, but not limited to, lack of resources, sudden emergency, ill-health, disability, or other disadvantage.b. To provide by gift, sale, or otherwise, furniture, household goods and other items or services to relieve need, hardship or distress and prevent exclusion from essential services.c. To raise public awareness of, and encourage recycling, reuse, or repurposing of furniture and other household items, including by collecting unwanted items and making them available for others to use.d. To promote and provide life and work skills support and work experience for people who are unemployed or would otherwise benefit from such services.e. To promote any other charitable activity that is consistent with these objects, which shall be selected by the trustees at their absolute discretion.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, YORKSHIRE.

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