Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

THE SPRING CHARITY

The Charity's aims are to benefit families in the Northampton area by the provision of activities and facilities for care,leisure and recreation;to promote social welfare by improving the conditions of life,and to benefit the public at large but especially those who are disadvantaged due to their youth,age,financial hardship or social,health or economic circumstances.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/23?£67£54£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£64£42£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£56£42£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£10£25£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£13£34£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£69£80£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£122£100£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£86£322£-237n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£88£230£-143n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£496£478£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£450£542£-92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£569£473£96£11£547£44511.3150
31/03/11£650£553£98£5£450£3417.4110
31/03/10?£275£306£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/09£534£439£95£7£384£3058.3180
31/08/08*£432£144£289n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years

www.springcharity.co.uk

communityspringcharity@gmail.com

01604 245767

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • 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
  • Community sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northamptonshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£233,013
Northamptonshire Community Foundation£10,155
The Clothworkers Foundation£3,200
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Donor Directed- 50 Families Project
£3,056 23/04/2024
12
50 Families Project - to support nutrition for families
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Family Breakfast Club
£1,499 19/03/2024
11
Family Breakfast Club that will run each morning to give hungry parents and caregivers who are experiencing food poverty a safe and non-judgmental place to come for breakfast and should bring families together to share food, learn recipes, and ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Spring Charity
£3,200 02/03/2023
0
Installation of lift and kitchen refurbishment for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - From Seed to Soup
£1,200 06/02/2023
This grant would provide funding for tabletop stoves and hand food mixers that would be used to cookery sessions to enable both organisations to provide a long-term, sustainable approach to addressing food poverty
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to Spring Charity
£4,400 01/11/2021
To provide experience with age appropriate IT, for young children at home in the Castle Ward area of Northampton Town, and children in key stages 1 & 2 at school, where such equipment is limited.
National Lottery Community Fund - Spring Charity Venture
£215,000 06/08/2021
The funding will be used by the group to cover core costs and extend its work and develop its support that is available to families with children under five living in a deprived area. the funding will be used to work with people from BAME ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Spring Charity Venture
£9,032 22/10/2020
6
The funding will be used to deliver stay and play sessions for families with young children. The project aims to ensure that families are able to reduce anxiety relieve risk of domestic abuse and improve mental health and wellbeing during the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CV19 Venture Response
£8,981 22/05/2020
7
The funding will be used to provide online and phone assistance to local people experiencing issues such as mental ill health. The project aims to support the community through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 57-82
  • DUNCAN JOHN MCALPINE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • JULIA SUSAN MANN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired Head Teacher
  • MAVIS MUNDIRWA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • WINSTON ALLISTER STRACHEN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • JANICE MARGARET FREEMAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • JILL SPIBY Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/2007, number: 1121126
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/08/2006, number: 05898293
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
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
16 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR14: 125 days late, AR08: 7 days late,
Main office

The Spring Charity
Spring Lane
NORTHAMPTON
NN1 2JW

Objectives

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTHAMPTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF OUT OF SCHOOL FACILITIES FOR THE DAILY CARE, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS; ANDTO FURTHER BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF CASTLE WARD, NORTHAMPTON (WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS) BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE COMMUNITY AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND COHESION.'

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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