Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -7

Support Score: 3

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Static board: -3
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -2

BIRCH HALL ADVENTURES

Birch Hall Adventures provides outdoor education and activities for schools and groups. These include: Sailing, Simulated Caving, Bush Craft, Camping, Archery, Geo-caching, Nature Walks. It also provides access to facilities for other organisations and groups.

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
The Board is completely male
The Board composition appears to be rather static

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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£144	£143	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22		£114	£103	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/21	*	£84	£43	£40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/20		£68	£68	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/19		£70	£59	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18	*	£41	£40	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£35	£39	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£12	£10	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 9 years

https://www.birchhall.com

info@birchhall.com

01255258307

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
Recreation
Religious Activities

GiG Classification

Other facilities management and maintenance

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
8 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

Sport England	£10,750
DCMS	£10,750
Essex Community Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sport England - COVID-19 Return to Play
£10,750	19/11/2020 3	Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled COVID-19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Mountaineering
DCMS - ALB-SportEngland-COVID-19 Return to Play
£10,750	19/11/2020	Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled COVID-19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Mountaineering
Essex Community Foundation - Bunkhouse accommodation
£5,000	16/04/2020 7	towards the development of a bunkhouse at a charity based in Tendring providing outdoor education and activities for schools and groups

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 44-63

NICHOLAS JOHN VIVIAN SINGLETON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Fire Officer

GUY MAIN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Insurance

REV ANDREW CHRISTOPHER WINTER Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Chaplain

REV MARK JAMES DANIEL HOLDAWAY Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Minister Of Religion

RICHARD JOHN MYERS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeship: INNOVISTA INTERNATIONAL,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/01/2015, number: 1160251
Registered at Companies House on 26/03/2014, number: 08961426

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

8 returns made; AR21: 1 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 2 days late,

Main office

Birch Hall
Dale Hill
Kirby-le-Soken
Frinton-on-Sea
CO13 0EL

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, INCLUDING IN THE AREAS OF OUTDOOR PURSUITS, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, SPORT, MUSIC, ARTS AND CRAFTS, BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;3 TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION, SPORT OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;

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