Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

ACTIVE8

Active8 projects aim to empower and motivate young people with physical disabilities in Cornwall to become autonomous individuals by developing their skills, confidence, support structures and aspirations.We support Active8 members to challenge the status quo and be a catalyst for improvement in the quality of life of young individuals and our community.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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
31/07/23£144£171£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/22£158£178£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/21£124£111£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/20£171£112£59n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/19£105£105£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/18£127£98£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/17£72£90£-18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/16£156£68£87n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

www.active8online.org

manager@active8online.org

07800876421

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Cornwall, Devon,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

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
Postcode Local Trust£25,000
Cornwall Community Foundation£20,000
DCMS£13,000
Co-Operative Group£4,076
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Active8
£1,848 21/10/2023
10 young people with physical disabilities from Cornwall meet for monthly residential weekends, building friendships and experiencing activities that may have otherwise not been possible.
Postcode Local Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£25,000 29/09/2023
We provide monthly residentials where they can gain support make friends with others who have similar disabilities and life experiences.
Cornwall Community Foundation - Accler8
£10,000 30/03/2023
Active8 empowers young people (14-30) with physical disabilities through residentials, peer mentoring, advocacy, and one-to-one support, fostering skills, confidence, friendships, independence, and voice recognition.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Active8
£2,228 22/10/2022
Our project aims to support young people with disabilities from all over Cornwall to come together, build new friendships, support networks and have fun.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Active 8
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
Cornwall Community Foundation - Multi year grant
£10,000 29/08/2022
Active8 empowers young people (14-30) with physical disabilities through residentials, peer mentoring, advocacy, and one-to-one support, fostering skills, confidence, friendships, independence, and voice recognition.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 25/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 01/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Illumin8
£339,554 31/10/2018
60
The project provides activities to young people between the ages of 14-25 with physical disabilities. They support young people to build their skills and confidence to provide them with the skills to challenge themselves and their communities to be ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANNE JEFFERY Appointed: 2017
  • CHERYL EVERITT Appointed: 2019
  • CHLOE WALKER Appointed: 2023
  • FELICITY GIBBINS Appointed: 2018
  • JULIAN ANDREW TYSON (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • MARK STEVENS Appointed: 2015
  • MARK CURTIS Appointed: 2022
  • PENNY JEAN MONGER Appointed: 2015
  • PAUL JOHN STANILAND Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/10/2015, number: 1163942
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

B108 Beacon Place
Station Approach
Victoria
Cornwall
PL26 8LG

Objectives

TO EMPOWER AND MOTIVATE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES IN CORNWALL TO BECOME AUTONOMOUS INDIVIDUALS BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CONFIDENCE, SUPPORT STRUCTURES AND ASPIRATIONS'.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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