Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

CHAIN LANE COMMUNITY HUB

As a community centre, we provide a base for four non profit organisation and two community spaces for hire for a range of activities. We are a community anchor, where people can come together, learn together and develop solutions together to provide a connected, resilient and well-developed community where residents and community potential are realised.

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
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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
31/12/23	£202	£208	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/22	£165	£161	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/21	£114	£110	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20	£68	£97	£-30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19	£96	£103	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18	£97	£101	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/17	£91	£96	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/16	£88	£128	£-39	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/15	£95	£91	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/14	£364	£96	£268	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/13	£50	£61	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years
(13 years as a company)

www.chainlane.org

info@chainlane.org

01423861066

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
Recreation
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Other facilities management and maintenance

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

North Yorkshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
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

Garfield Weston Foundation	£37,500
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,376
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland	£4,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000	16/12/2022 24	Our Community Life
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Chain Lane Community Hub
£4,000	21/07/2022	Supporting the charity's objects in knaresborough
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteering Knaresborough
£9,746	01/07/2022	The funding will be used to match prospective community volunteers with opportunities from 20+ charities groups and events. The project aims to match their existing pool of over 150 pandemic volunteers with wider volunteer opportunities.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	09/04/2021	Getting back to normal
National Lottery Community Fund - Stronger Together
£9,630	22/01/2021 8	The funding will be used to re-open their centre with resources to meet current guidelines and activities which are Covid compliant. The project aims to provide a community space which will allow the community and community groups to access ....more The funding will be used to re-open their centre with resources to meet current guidelines and activities which are Covid compliant. The project aims to provide a community space which will allow the community and community groups to access activities and information which will support them through the pandemic.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 48-65

HASAN MUHAMMAD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

LEON GREGORY FIJALKOWSKI (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Operations Manager

NATASHA BABAR-EVANS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trustee & Ceo Of Better Connect

NICK GARRETT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Management Consultant

SARAH JANE STURGEON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Manager

WENDY HUNWICK-BROWN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: No Paid Occupation

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/02/2013, number: 1150969
Registered at Companies House on 11/02/2011, number: 07527344

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
Investing charity funds 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

11 returns made; all on time

Main office

Chain Lane Community Hub
Chain Lane
KNARESBOROUGH
North Yorkshire
HG5 0AS

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF KNARESBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE, AND THE HARROGATE DISTRICT, 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 AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH YORKSHIRE

Data Sources

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