Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3

READING PRIDE 

To promote equality and diversity, advance education and eliminate particularly in relation to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and associated communities [LGBT Plus], in particular but not exclusively within Reading and The Thames Valley. In particularly by promoting and staging an annual festival and making grants and/or donations to other charitable and voluntary organisations.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 17 years
(20 years as a company)

www.readingpride.co.uk

info@readingpride.co.uk

08443570124

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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
31/10/22£100£94£6n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/10/21£75£70£5n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/10/20*£23£3£21n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/10/19£66£56£9n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/10/18*£51£41£10£0£0£0n/a025
31/10/17£33£26£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/16£24£25£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/15£21£18£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/14£18£20£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/13£23£23£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/12£22£30£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/11£26£24£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/10*£24£25£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/09?£25£21£4£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/08£23£26£-3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Who works here?
  • 50 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead,

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-56
  • PAUL BRITT (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Biochemist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/07/2007, number: 1119891
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/02/2004, number: 05041291
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR20: 2 days late, AR18: 26 days late, AR10: 192 days late,
Main office

South Street Arts Centre
21 South Street
Reading
RG1 4QU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION IN RELATION TO GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE RESIDENT IN READING AND THE THAMES VALLEY (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING AWARENESS IN ISSUES AFFECTING SAID PERSONS IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING AND STAGING AN ANNUAL LGBT FESTIVAL AND MAKING GRANTS AND/OR DONATIONS TO OTHER CHARITABLE AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING AN ENVIRONMENT IN FAVOUR OF LGBT EQUALITY BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

READING AND THE THAMES VALLEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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