Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

SPORTS ALIVE NORTH WEST

Youth workDetached work Healthy lifestyles Project work Sports and coaching
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no 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:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • Why is the Board completely female?

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/24£365£355£10n/a
31/03/23£393£312£81n/a
31/03/22£296£271£25n/a
31/03/21£360£225£135n/a
31/03/20£268£248£20n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cheshire West & Chester, Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpool City, Manchester City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£268,321
Steve Morgan Foundation£31,645
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£24,975
John Moores Foundation£17,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£13,520
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Sports Alive Northwest Charity
£17,000 20/11/2023
Towards the Social Prescriber's salary
National Lottery Community Fund - WellBeing Project
£249,905 17/09/2023
The funding will be used to deliver their Access Without Limit project to children and young people from Liverpool and Knowsley which will include centre based sessions such as employability training sessions healthy eating project 121 support and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - MH- Summer outreach
£8,648 11/08/2023
The funding will be used to increase the number of sports sessions the organisation can offer. The project aims to give young people access to sport and fun sessions in local parks.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Outreach session in local parks
£3,900 06/07/2023
To carry out 2 outreach sessions in Northwood during the summer holidays. They will work in local parks to encourage young people (11-16) to take part in sports activities. They will promote their centre in Northwood encouraging them to continue ....more
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Sports Alive Northwest
£31,645 20/03/2023
Wheelchair accessible minibus
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Muti Sports Programme
£2,500 01/03/2023
To run a 12-week programme for young people in Everton providing them with sports sessions including Kin-Ball, Yoga, Football, baseball, and dodgeball.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Detached - Outreach Programme
£2,500 04/01/2023
TO run a programme 2 days a week for 3 hours a day for local children. They will provide indoor activities during the winter months allowing for enrichment and education in a safe warm environment.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Kirkby Summer Programme
£4,620 13/07/2022
To run a summer programme of activities for young people in Kirkby.
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Staff salaries
£24,975 26/04/2022
We will continue to facilitate our weekly centre-based sessions to support children and young people in our community in sports activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Junior club sessions
£9,768 20/08/2021
The funding will used to run open access sessions for children and young people (C&YP) that will allow them socialise in a safe place meet new friends and to learn and develop new skills. The C&YP will take part in activities that aim to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sports Alive North West
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund extra staff time and 30 activity packs for children and young people experiencing deprivation and who are isolated at home due to Covid-19, resulting in increased opportunites to have fun.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 27/05/2020
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
Sport England - Summer 2019 Activities
£9,109 05/08/2019
8
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Summer 2019 Activities. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Sports Alive North West
£125,099 26/06/2019
36
This project will deliver fun activity and social education for children and young people from Everton, Liverpool impacted by poverty and deprivation. It will lead to increased engagement in activity, positive relationships and raised aspirations.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-75
  • EILEEN MCCOY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Practice Manager
  • KATIE COSGROVE (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • LIANNE MCGINNES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
  • ROSEMARY PHILOMENA HUDSON Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/08/2018, number: 1179409
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/12/2017, number: 11093181
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

ADLAM PARK ACTIVITY CENTRE
ADLAM ROAD
LIVERPOOL
L10 1LG

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF MERSEYSIDE AND THE NORTH WEST AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE:-(1) ORGANISATION OF SPORTS COACHING SESSIONS IN SCHOOLS, YOUTH CENTRES AND COMMUNITY CENTRES;(2) FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATIONAL, SPORTING OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES AND SERVICES;(3) THE IMPROVEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION;(4) EDUCATION, TRAINING AND COACHING COURSES WHICH PROMOTE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FITNESS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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