Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

BURY PEOPLE FIRST

SUPPLY OF TRAINING SESSIONS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
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
31/03/23£124£119£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£136£83£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£143£82£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£71£39£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£26£28£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£17£32£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£41£59£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£42£51£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£56£51£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£57£58£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£60£51£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£42£35£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£43£35£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£41£35£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£38£34£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 16 years
(18 years as a company)

www.burypeoplefirst.org

admin@burypeoplefirst.org

0161 705 4342

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bury,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

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
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£128,536
Lloyds Bank Foundation£75,000
DCMS£38,060
The Clothworkers Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£17,155
Disability Action£5,060
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Bury People First
£75,000 06/12/2023
36
Unrestricted grant over 3 years towards the core costs of Bury People First
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£5,000 14/02/2023
Unrestricted funding to tackle financial hardship
National Lottery Community Fund - Platinum Jubilee - Celebration of Learning Disabilities
£7,201 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee with people who have learning disabilities and will also launch an event to look at 70 years in the learning disability field. The project aims to bring people together to celebrate and to ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Bury People First
£20,000 19/10/2021
purchase vehicle for a charity supporting people with learning disabilties in Manchester
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Supporting the Haref network to address the needs of black and minority ethnic communities arising from the COVID-19 pandemic across Newcastle and Gateshead
£25,000 27/05/2021
Supporting the Haref network to address the needs of black and minority ethnic communities arising from the COVID-19 pandemic across Newcastle and Gateshead
National Lottery Community Fund - Rochdale People First self advocacy group
£9,954 19/01/2021
11
The funding will be used to enable Bury People First trustees who are all learning disabled to mentor self-advocates in Rochdale to set up their own group and become independent within a year. The aim of the new group will be to empower people to ....more
Disability Action - NET Coronavirus Appeal Emergency Fund for Disabled People Organisations UK-wide
£5,060 01/11/2020
The project will Purchase of tablets to enabled people to access online activities.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Supporting voluntary community and social enterprise organisations across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic
£39,268 06/10/2020
Supporting voluntary community and social enterprise organisations across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting voluntary community and social enterprise organisations across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic
£39,268 06/10/2020
supporting voluntary community and social enterprise organisations across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£38,060 25/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Additional charitable expenditure incurred in Supporting community and voluntary groups during the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000 30/04/2020
Additional charitable expenditure incurred in Supporting community and voluntary groups during the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - additional charitable expenditure incurred in supporting community and voluntary groups during the COVID-19 pandemic
£10,000 30/04/2020
additional charitable expenditure incurred in supporting community and voluntary groups during the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - An advocacy support service in Gateshead.
£5,000 21/02/2020
An advocacy support service in Gateshead.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - An Advocacy Service for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
£5,000 04/07/2019
An Advocacy Service for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
National Lottery Community Fund - WIDER programme.
£242,124 25/03/2019
60
The organisation aim to deliver a holistic project that offers support, training, volunteering, workshops and physical activity to people with learning difficulties. Funding will go towards staffing costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bereavement and Learning Disabilities
£10,000 07/03/2019
12
Funding will be used to create resources, run workshops, research and drop-in sessions to support people with learning disabilities dealing with bereavement. The project aims to provide services and resources to help beneficiaries at a very ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Skilled, Healthy, Active, Resilient and Empowered (SHARE) through Advo
£10,000 28/02/2018
12
The organisation will deliver a series of workshops and drop in sessions for learning disabled people to increase their abilities to cope with everyday situations and access support and advocacy on issues face.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-60
  • CATHERINE MERCER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Unemployed
  • JON BROCKLEHURST Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Unemployed
  • KAREN MACDONALD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Unemployed
  • MANDY RIGBY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Volunteer
  • REBECCA LUNNESS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Trustee
  • VERITY KAY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Support Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/09/2008, number: 1125871
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/06/2006, number: 05853457
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

Bury Business Lodge
Imperial House
79-81 Hornby Street
BURY
BL9 5BN

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS WHO HAVE A LEARNING DISABILITY IN BURY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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