Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

LANCASHIRE BME NETWORK LTD 

Lancashire BME Pact and Lancashire Women's Network recently merged to form Lancashire BME Network. The founding organisations have a long history of partnership working and will be working to address needs and issues affecting BME communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age
Established: 14 years
(20 years as a company)

www.lancashirebmenetwork.org.uk

office@lancashirebmenetwork.org.uk

01254392974

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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
31/08/22£968£970£-2£0£511£3003.71218
31/08/21£991£797£195£0£513£2123.21420
31/08/20£433£322£111n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/08/19£350£352£-2n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/08/18£246£214£31£0£0£0n/a013
31/08/17*£215£157£58£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£136£132£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£128£137£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£42£51£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£71£88£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£257£238£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/11£185£222£-37£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 0%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 59%
Reserves/Spending: 3.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 188.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Blackburn With Darwen, Blackpool, Lancashire,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • 12 employees
  • 18 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Comic Relief£288,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£115,250
National Lottery Community Fund£90,630
Barrow Cadbury Trust£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Lancashire BME Network Ltd
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Lancashire BME Network Ltd
£50,000 08/09/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Lancashire BME Network Ltd
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Lancashire BAME Youth Work Network
£5,000 26/08/2021
12
Lancashire BME Network supports Black and minoritised communities in Lancashire through advocacy, support and programmes covering financial resilience, employment, loneliness, mental health and small ....more
Comic Relief - Lancashire GMF
£288,000 26/01/2021
COVID19 - Lancashire BME Network (LBN) formed in 2014 following a merger between Lancashire Women’s Network (est. 1996) & Lancashire BME Pact (est. 2003) both had worked closely & merged in ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Infrastructure grant to Lancashire BME Network Ltd
£30,000 08/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years to Lancashire BME Network Ltd under the Infrastructure funding programme
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Lancashire BME Network
£20,000 14/10/2020
6
To support a pilot project for effective mental health intervention for refugee men
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID19 Emergency Response
£90,630 08/07/2020
6
Lancashire BME Network (LBN) will use the funding to continue to deliver advice and guidance to those who struggle to access mainstream services due to language mobility and cultural barriers.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Lancashire BME Network Ltd
£33,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support Lancashire BME Network Ltd to sustain their work to support work addressing Mental Health Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Support 360
£498,902 14/02/2018
36
This new project led by Lancashire BME Network is delivering an information, advice and guidance service to people from the Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) community living in East ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Strength in Diversity'
£10,000 05/12/2016
12
The project will use the funding to deliver a celebration and awards event, where a range of black minority ethnic (BME) groups will exhibit their native arts and crafts. They will write a good ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 45-72
  • AZHAR ALI (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: County Councillor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/05/2010, number: 1136057
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/08/2003, number: 04865661
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR17: 8 days late,
Main office

Suite405 Daisyfield Business Centre
Appleby Street
Blackburn
BB1 3BL

Objectives

'THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THEPUBLIC, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ASIAN, AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN ANDOTHER MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE BY WHATEVERCHARITABLE MEANS THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT THINK FIT WITH THE OBJECT OFIMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID BENEFICIARIES '

Defined Area of Benefit:

LANCASHIRE

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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