Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 10
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

REDEEMING OUR COMMUNITIES 

ROC’s main aim is to bring about community transformation by creating strategic partnerships between statutory agencies, voluntary groups and churches. T
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

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
31/12/22£650£732£-82£0£424£3836.3263,000
31/12/21£691£681£10£0£506£5018.8273,000
31/12/20*£787£651£136£0£496£4728.71826
31/12/19£671£593£78£0£360£3316.71820
31/12/18£531£532£-1£0£281£1954.41820
31/12/17£540£591£-52£0£283£721.5180
31/12/16£518£576£-58£6£334£491180
31/12/15£601£508£93£10£392£1373.3150
31/12/14£607£473£134£11£299£1213.1110
31/12/13£364£317£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£259£209£50£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£110£77£33£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: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 90%
Reserves/Spending: 6.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 11.4
Asset Split ?
Established: 13 years

www.roc.uk.com

contact@roc.uk.com

01613934511

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Who works here?
  • 26 employees
  • 3,000 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
National Lottery Community Fund£60,000
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland£10,457
Forever Manchester£5,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£4,545
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC Northern Ireland Action Group Programme
£10,000 10/02/2023
ROC NI (Redeeming Our Communities) based in north Belfast is using a £10000 grant to fund staff costs so they can continue to work with organisations and local action groups to make positive changes ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Fuse Youth Hub
£10,000 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a youth project where young people aged between 7-16 who live in and around Trafford can come together to take part in positive activities. The project aims to ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tavistock Area Men in Sheds
£3,082 22/10/2022
We intend to provide a safe haven where senior citizens can make some new friends, share a problem, mend things, make things, and pass on valuable knowledge learned in practical ways.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Grant to ROC (Redeeming Our Communities)
£4,545 19/10/2022
This will be to transform 10 overgrown gardens and to make sustainable, and to potentially involve between 5-10 volunteers across the course of the project depending on referrals made to the team.
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - ROC Northern Ireland Project Officer
£5,000 07/09/2022
Contribution towards ROC Project Officer Salary for this community engagement charity working in socially deprived and disadvantaged areas of Northern Ireland
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC Mentors North Belfast
£10,000 08/07/2022
Redeeming Our Communities (ROC) is using a £10000 grant to extend its current family mentoring services across north Belfast. The project will empower families to cope better with challenges they ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC Tele-mentors Larne
£10,000 12/08/2020
9
Redeeming Our Communities is using a £10000 grant to provide a mentoring scheme via telephone and online for families in Larne whose mental health and well-being has been affected by the COVID-19 ....more
Forever Manchester - ROC tele mentoring
£5,000 19/06/2020
Mentoring for teenagers and families at high risk of Covid
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£2,500 09/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC & Coach Tele-Mentors
£10,000 24/04/2020
11
The project will match mentors with local families with at least one child under the age of twelve who have been referred to them from a range of partner agencies. The mentor will communicate with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC delivers
£10,000 02/12/2019
10
The organisation will use the funding to run a series of activities for young people including music, drama and arts sessions. This will help to provide a positive social activity for young people in ....more
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - ROC Northern Ireland Project Officer
£5,457 10/09/2019
ROC Northern Ireland Project Officer
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - ROC Community Mentoring
£9,975 18/04/2018
ROC+COACH Community Mentoring, is a scheme which seeks to provide an early intervention mentoring scheme for young people and families.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Redeeming Our Community ROC
£3,316 29/11/2017
We want to encourage healthier lifestyles in Partington through participation in our fun, lively and challenging arts and dance classes.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 06/07/2017
ROC Mentors
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC - Up Peer Mentoring - Leading for future leaders
£246,871 31/05/2017
36
This project aims to address low-self esteem, life chances and self-awareness within young people living in the Trafford area. Designed in partnership with local people, the organisation will run a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC Celebrate Partington
£10,000 13/10/2016
12
This project will deliver family heritage workshops, intergenerational activities, an exhibition, museum visit and celebration event. This will bring people together to celebrate the history and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC-On (into employment)
£10,000 26/08/2015
12
The organisation will use the funding to train volunteers to run a weekly drop in centre for young people who are NEET, where the young people can gain employment skills, volunteer training, take ....more
Dulverton Trust - ROC Cafe Partington
£25,000 04/02/2015
ROC Cafe Partington
Sport England - ROC Football
£4,708 05/12/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'ROC Football'. This project is a Association Football project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Sport England - ROC Football Edgeley
£5,292 16/06/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'ROC Football Edgeley'. This project is a Association Football project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC Scotland Showcase Event
£10,000 18/12/2013
12
This project will allow Redeeming our Communities (ROC) to hold a showcase event in the Glasgow Royal concert hall. The aim of this event will be to bring together key agency decision makers from ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ROC Cafe youth project
£132,530 17/10/2012
60
This project in Greater Manchester to provide a safe, fun environment (a cafe/club) for young people to enable them to develop as citizens by providing positive adult role models, a context for ....more
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How is it governed?

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

Age Range of Trustees: 51-65
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/01/2011, number: 1139817
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/07/2010, number: 07327258
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR20: 3 days late,
Main office

THE FUSE
WARBURTON LANE
PARTINGTON
MANCHESTER
M31 4BU

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS THETRUSTEES SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS:( )TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVEAPPLICATION AND USE OF RESOURCES BY NON CHARITABLE BODIES FOR THE PUBLICBENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE SETUP OF COMMUNITY PROJECTS, SUPPORTING THEIR ADMINISTRATION AND PROVIDINGSUPPORT SERVICES TO THEM; AND BY FACILITATING PARTNERSHIP AND CO-OPERATIONIN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR:(2) THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULARBUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS: (A) IDENTIFYING NEED IN THEVOLUNTARY SECTOR AND ESTABLISHING PROJECTS OR POLICIES TO ADDRESS THEM; (B)LIASING BETWEEN CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, THE LOCAL AUTHORITY ANDOTHER GROUPS OR ORGANISATIONS ON RELEVANT ISSUES THAT AFFECT MEMBERS OF THECOMMUNITY;THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR' MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS:CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELYCHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH AREESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR ASIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIRCONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARYORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORYAUTHORITIES.(3) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY ANDECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTERABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY INSOCIETY(4) TO PROMOTE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE EFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE INENGLAND AND WALES AND TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND GREATER PUBLICPARTICIPATION IN THE PREVENTION AND SOLUTION OF CRIME(5) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OROTHER DISADVANTAGE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

Data Sources

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