Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 9

BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY MATTERS

BCM provides small community and voluntary groups with peer to peer, face-to-face support, enabling them to be more effective in their communities. To do this surgeries are held in informal venues across Birmingham where anyone with an idea to improve their community are welcome to visit. Additionally, workshops focused on topics such as funding and wider networking events take place.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong 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
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity only provides its support via other charities
The Board is predominantly 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	£195	£181	£14	n/a
31/03/23	£163	£143	£20	n/a
31/03/22	£139	£108	£30	n/a
31/03/21	£84	£70	£13	n/a
31/03/20	£47	£29	£18	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

www.birminghamcommunitymatters.org.uk

info@birminghamcommunitymatters.org.uk

01217512992

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Birmingham City,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Birmingham City Council - Capacity Building for Perry Barr assets
£5,000	25/09/2023	Capacity building support for local emerging, small and micro community groups.
Birmingham City Council - Capacity Building for Assets in Perry Barr
£5,000	25/09/2023	To deliver a programme of capacity building activity in the period Sept 2023 to March 2024.
Birmingham City Council - BCM Capacity Building
£8,333	12/12/2022	Capacity building support for assets offering support or activity to over 50s in the SO constituency.
National Lottery Community Fund - Peer support for small groups in Birmingham
£251,541	20/10/2022	This funding will support Birmingham Community Matters (BCM) to facilitate peer support and the provision of information and resources. Following on from the pandemic they will deliver a hybrid service providing online support and face-to-face ....more This funding will support Birmingham Community Matters (BCM) to facilitate peer support and the provision of information and resources. Following on from the pandemic they will deliver a hybrid service providing online support and face-to-face events for micro and small voluntary and community groups in Birmingham where there is a known lack of appropriate support that meets their needs. Face-to-face events will be held in local community settings across the city. BCM provides micro and small voluntary and community groups with peer to peer face-to-face support enabling them to be more effective and sustainable in their communities. To do this surgeries are held in informal settings across Birmingham where anyone with an idea to improve their community are welcome to visit. Over the past few years they have supported more than 300 people to start up choose a structure support with policies and procedures planning projects applying for funding monitoring projects managing money recruiting and managing volunteers. They are on the radar of more than 800 individuals community groups and funders through their monthly newsletter.
Birmingham City Council - Capacity Building for Selly Oak NNS Assets 22/23
£10,000	24/06/2022	Support for existing and emerging community groups to grow and strengthen how they work.
National Lottery Community Fund - Birmingham Community Matters
£217,218	22/03/2019 36	This project will help build up a baseline of information about the health and wellbeing of the micro community organisation sector. This information will be used to adapt and develop the service in line with the needs of the communities being ....more This project will help build up a baseline of information about the health and wellbeing of the micro community organisation sector. This information will be used to adapt and develop the service in line with the needs of the communities being served and to attract additional resources.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CATHERINE SARAH DE SOYZA Appointed: 2023

DIPALI CHANDRA Appointed: 2017

DAVID JAMES DUDLEY BROOME Appointed: 2023

DENISE LESLEY PEACH Appointed: 2023

EMMA WOOLF MBE (Chair) Appointed: 2017

EMMA MACPHERSON Appointed: 2020

HELGA EDSTROM Appointed: 2019

MISS SANDRA COOPER Appointed: 2017

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/08/2018, number: 1179442

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

Stirchley Baths
2-4 Bournville Lane
BIRMINGHAM
B30 2JT

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AREA OF BIRMINGHAM AND IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING AREAS (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) BY: I HELPING TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF SMALL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE. II PROMOTING, ORGANISING AND FACILITATING CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN SMALL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT THE ‘VOLUNTARY SECTOR’ MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS. CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. SMALL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

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