Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 0

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteer base +3

Overall GiG Score: 1

LIFESPRING CHURCH AND CENTRE

We hold corporate worship services at Ollerton and Church Warsop as well as holding small group meetings called Life Groups in midweek. In midweek, we also run outreach projects such as Parent and Toddler, Make Lunch, youth activities and activities for some specialist groups such as Autism and Mental Health issues. Our method is to draw people together, to show love and to serve them.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently
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 £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£163	£173	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22	£210	£203	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21	£877	£120	£757	£0	£757	£690	68.8	4	40

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Balance Sheet History

Established: 5 years

http://www.lifespring.org.uk/

office@lifespring.org.uk

01623860303

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Christian congregations

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
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
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Lifespring Church and Centre
£2,000	27/07/2022	The funding is for distributing meals and food packages to those who are unable to travel to food banks.
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Lifespring Church and Centre
£2,500	04/11/2021	We are looking for funding for “Community Action Response” or CAR for short. The project serves North Nottinghamshire and has a Centre at Ollerton and one at Warsop. It operates under the governance of “Lifespring Church and Centre”. CAR is ....more We are looking for funding for “Community Action Response” or CAR for short. The project serves North Nottinghamshire and has a Centre at Ollerton and one at Warsop. It operates under the governance of “Lifespring Church and Centre”. CAR is a “consortium" of local organisations chaired by Councillor Mike Pringle and Pastor Mike Phillips with 30 volunteers. The project cooperates with Councils, schools, Family Centres, Care Homes, local businesses etc. It has been running since March 2020. The project has delivered over 151,000 meals to residents since the beginning of the pandemic. We have provided telephone support to almost 800 people and mental health packs and activity packs to children. Having received funds previously from CRT Food Insecurity Fund, we continue to deliver food hampers and are gearing up for the increased demand leading up to Christmas and preparing for the economic impact over the coming months, including the impact on physical, mental, emotional as well as material health. We feel that funding from CRT could stretch further the little funds that we have.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-69

BEVERLEY WHITWORTH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Town Council Clerk

CATHERINE MADELEINE THERESE MARIE NORTHEY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Executive

CRAIG MADDISON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Engineer

DERRICK SIMPSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Teacher, Pastor

ELIZABETH PHILLIPS (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Minister Of Religion

SARAH PROTHERO Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Cleaner

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/01/2020, number: 1187584
Registered at Companies House on 19/11/2019, number: 12323109

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

Lifespring Church
Lifespring Centre
Sherwood Drive
New Ollerton
NEWARK
NG22 9PP

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (THE OBJECTS): (A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROMTIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT; (B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS ORSERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORSFROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND (C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

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