Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

STAA

Work for the benefit and to meet the specific needs of the local community; champion allotment gardening and to promote and support local food; preserve & promote our grade 2* listed heritage site; respect, conserve & enhance the natural environment
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been 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 ?
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£192£221£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£213£185£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£207£177£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£142£109£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£66£100£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£158£183£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£226£211£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£243£196£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£243£196£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£190£190£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£231£215£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£222£221£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£248£230£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£208£207£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 15 years

www.staa-allotments.org.uk

info@staa-allotments.org.uk

01159602282

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Allotments & gardens
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Nottingham City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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£461,438
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
DCMS£33,972
BBC Children in Need£30,000
Postcode Places Trust£25,000
Co-Op Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Places Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£25,000 31/07/2023
We’ll provide activities using nature to engage disadvantaged people, reducing isolation, improving skills, and increasing prospects.
National Lottery Community Fund - Access to Urban Nature
£10,000 12/05/2023
The funding will be used to continue and grow development and community engagement sessions with allotments and an urban wilderness providing access to nature. The project aims to increase diversity improve skills and positively impact upon overall ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Together
£225,237 24/03/2023
This funding will be used to build on and continue support to the diverse communities of St Ann’s in Nottingham through inclusive allotment spaces. The project will provide a range of socially beneficial horticultural and food growing activities ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 02/12/2022
24
Outdoor Connections
BBC Children in Need - Grant to STAA
£30,000 20/12/2020
This project will deliver a gardening project to young people experiencing mental health issues, are refugees and asylum seekers or are experiencing local deprivation. The activities will result in improved confidence, relationships and life skills.
Co-Op Foundation - STAA STC Expand application
£10,000 17/11/2020
To help you build on the work and impact from Space to Connect Explore funding, aimed at providing communities with a space to connect
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-St Anns Allotments, Nottingham (Covid-19 Emergency Response)
£33,972 01/04/2020
This project will ensure the unique heritage of St Anns Allotments, Nottingham (a grade 2*listed site), can be shared now, during the current Covid 19 crisis measures and long into the future. It will generate creative ways to maintain community ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Gateway to the Garden
£226,201 10/12/2019
36
This project will widen access to an allotment site, by enhancing staff resources and improving the physical spaces at the site. More local residents will be able to enjoy the social and therapeutic benefits of this large greenspace by providing a ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/12/2018
St Ann's Community Orchard (project Costs)
BBC Children in Need - Grant to STAA
£29,997 13/11/2017
36
The project will deliver a series of outdoor learning and experiential play sessions for children with a range of issues that will improve physical and emotional wellbeing, improve social skills and will develop their basic life-skills.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to STAA Ltd
£17,300 19/02/2015
Dig for History!: The St Anns Allotments Archaeology Project
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
  • ALISTAIR BATES Appointed: 2021
  • AMY SCOTT Appointed: 2023
  • CHARLES JOSEPH WESSON, Occupation: Retired
  • CLARE MARY SOAR Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Nurse
  • DAVID JOHN PARKER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired Teacher
  • KIRSCHE WALKER Appointed: 2024
  • LYDIA WATKINSON (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/01/2010, number: 1133481
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR10: 115 days late,
Main office

Unit 0
John Folman Business Centre
33 Hungerhill Road
Nottingham
NG3 4NB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY AREA) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ST ANN'S, NOTTINGHAM AND THESURROUNDING AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION (IN PARTICULAR FACILITIES FOR ALLOTMENT AND RECREATIONAL GARDENING) WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALLOTMENT AND RECREATIONAL GARDENING AND THE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.C) THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION, IN PARTICULAR THE ST ANN'S AREA OF NOTTINGHAM BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:I) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE.III) THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.IV) THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OR SITES' OF HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE.V) THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOTTINGHAM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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