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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

THE BLACKLEY CENTRE

The Blackley Centre is a Registered Charity working for peace, transforming conflict, andenabling good inter faith relations, providing quality hospitality at a centre in WestYorkshire. The Centre was founded by Blackley Baptist Church, with which it now works inpartnership from a shared site in the village of Blackley.
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Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
30/09/23£45£44£1n/a
30/09/22£47£48£0n/a
30/09/21£49£41£8n/a
30/09/20£24£17£7n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.blackleycentre.co.uk

admin@blackleycentre.co.uk

01422646803

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Community Foundation for Calderdale - The David Shutt Memorial and the David Shutt Young Peacemaker Projects
£4,500 10/08/2022
Grant to Blackley Baptist Church
National Lottery Community Fund - Blackley Centre Inter Faith Programme
£10,000 16/04/2021
The funding will be used to deliver inter faith workshops where people of different religious backgrounds will be provided with the opportunity to get together and gain a greater understanding of various faiths with the aim of developing community ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANDREW TAYLOR Appointed: 2021
  • KAREN AINSWORTH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Mediation Service Manager
  • ROBERT QUARTON Appointed: 2023
  • REV MARY FRANCES TAYLOR (Chair) Appointed: 2021
  • SAMINA ALI Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/08/2019, number: 1184714
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Blackley Centre
Prospect View
Blackley
Elland
West Yorkshire
HX5 0TD

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PROMOTION OF RECONCILIATION AND PEACE, RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL HARMONY AND EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND RETREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHRISTIANS AND PEOPLE OF ALL RELIGIONS AND BELIEFS AND TO ADVANCE RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN SUCH ACTIVITY. (2) THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT MEDIATION SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS AND GROUPS EXPERIENCING OR THREATENED BY DISPUTE OR CONFLICT, SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEIGHBOUR NUISANCE, ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, HARASSMENT, BULLYING, FAMILY OR COMMUNITY CONFLICT WITH A VIEW TO THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ORDER AND FOR THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE WELL-BEING OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS AND GROUPS.IN THESE OBJECTS:“CONFLICT” MEANS ANY FORM OF CONFLICT BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES OR COMMUNITIES THAT MAY ARISE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE ARISING FROM PREJUDICE, VIOLENCE (WHETHER PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL), MISUNDERSTANDINGS, DISPUTES OR DISAGREEMENTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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