Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 7
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

GRIT STREET AID

Grit Street Aid provides mobile assistance to around 50 rough sleepers and homeless each week throughout Greater Manchester. We offer help to people where they live on the street, providing food, clothing, and other basic essentials. We also advocate for our service users, in conjunction with the Street Support Network, and we hope to provide our service users with better access into services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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
31/03/23£22£33£-11n/a
31/03/22£27£30£-2n/a
31/03/21£40£33£7n/a
31/03/20£11£4£7n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

gritstreetaid.org

infogrit316@gmail.com

07752294441

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,

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
DCMS£14,996
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Forever Manchester£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Clear The Air
£10,000 07/01/2022
The funding will be used to purchase a hydride-electric van enabling the group to reach additional homeless people in the community. Beneficiaries will be provided with essential items information signposting and advocacy along with long term ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 17/09/2021
Next Phase
Forever Manchester - Supporting Rough Sleepers
£5,000 28/08/2020
Support and necessities for rough sleepers
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 28/08/2020
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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,996 30/06/2020
"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
Forever Manchester - Grit Street Aid
£5,000 24/04/2020
Basic essentials and welfare support for homeless people who haven't been found accommodation
National Lottery Community Fund - Grit Street Aid
£10,000 05/09/2019
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • GLEN ANTHONY TABOIS Appointed: 2022
  • KAREN COURCOUX (Chair) Appointed: 2024
  • MALCOLM AMBROSE CHISHOLM Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/06/2019, number: 1183979
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

c/o Wythenshawe Forum Library
Civic Centre
Forum Grove
Wythenshawe
MANCHESTER
M22 5RX

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS, FACING HOMELESSNESS OR ROUGH SLEEPERS IN GREATER MANCHESTER WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CLOTHING, BEDDING, FOOD AND DRINKS, HELPING TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, INFORMATION, ADVICE, EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE, ALSO SIGNPOSTING ON ISSUES RELATED TO HEALTHCARE, ADDICTION AND HOUSING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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