Finance Score: -10
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 4
  • Dormant: -10
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

CALIPSO 

Promote high quality, responsive, generalised and specialist provision delivered through local VCSE organisations which share opportunities and responsibilities and are rooted in the community, in order to improve and enhance the quality of lives of local people in Calderdale.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • 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
  • This charity appears to be dormant

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£0£0£00
31/03/22£0£0£00
31/03/21*£0£0£06
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

Sarah.mclellan@cvac.org.uk

01422348777

Charity Commission for England and Wales
This Charity appears to be dormant
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Community services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Calderdale,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£140,468 13/12/2021
This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/11/2019, number: 1186510
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
3 returns made; AR21: 4 days late,
Main office

8b Hall Street
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX1 5AY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY CHARITABLE AND NON CHARITABLE BODIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF CALDERDALE (WEST YORKSHIRE) AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO CONTRACTING AND FUNDRAISING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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