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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

PENRITH DISTRICT RED SQUIRREL GROUP 

Conserve red squirrels by feeding,improving habitat and advising on timing of timber operations to avoid breeding season. Controlling grey squirrels in north east Cumbria. Educating the public on the best ways of doing this and to the threat of squirrel pox and tree damage as a result of grey squirrels.
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Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • 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
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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
31/12/22£345£226£118n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/21£373£199£174n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/20£255£138£117n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/19£129£124£5n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/18*£118£108£9£0£0£0n/a050
31/12/17£90£112£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£85£113£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£152£116£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£58£65£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£61£58£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£47£32£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£71£31£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£31£20£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£10£7£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£4£4£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07*£4£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years

www.penrithredsquirrels.org.uk

info@penrithredsquirrels.org.uk

07836 610463

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Community services
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 30 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
DCMS - GRCF2020 P&DRSG REDS
£116,000 11/11/2020
Green Recovery Challenge Fund 2020-21. The wider aim of the scheme is: The Green Recovery Challenge Fund is a short-term competitive fund to kick-start environmental renewal whilst creating and ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/12/2006, number: 1117418
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Investment
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR18: 7 days late, AR07: 15 days late,
Main office

Celleron House
Tirril
PENRITH
Cumbria
CA10 2LS

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF THE RED SQUIRREL POPULATION IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT OF PENRITH DISTRICT, AND THEIR PROTECTION FROM EXTINCTION, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, AND CONDUCT RESEARCH, CONCERNING THE RED SQUIRREL POPULATION IN THE PENRITH DISTRICT AND ITS ENDANGERED STATUS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PENRITH DISTRICT

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