Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Very static board: -5
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +5
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

WELLOW CHURCH SCHOOLROOM

Income is used to maintain the old School Room for community use.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Why is the Board composition very static?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • 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
31/12/23£11£15£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£23£5£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£43£48£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£1£18£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£35£4£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18*£28£28£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£8£10£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£24£31£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£13£2£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£3£0£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12*£0£1£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£1£1£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£1£1£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09*£1£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£1£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£1£0£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/06£1£1£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£1£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£1£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 59 years

wellowschoolroom@gmx.net

01623632374

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Village halls & community buildings
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Nottinghamshire,
Who it helps
  • 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
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Wellow Church Schoolroom
£35,700 07/06/2022
The Wellow Heritage Rights of Way & Archaeology Project
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Wellow Church Schoolroom
£61,900 27/06/2019
The Wellow Heritage Research and Interpretation Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellow Church Schoolroom Roof Restoration
£10,000 14/03/2018
12
This charity will carry out restoration to its community use building that supports people who live in a rural area.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 06/07/2017
Wellow Church Schoolroom Restoration Project

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • BENJAMIN WELLS Appointed: 1982
  • PATRICIA JEAN CROFTS Appointed: 1982
  • REV CHRISTOPHER LEVY Appointed: 2013
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/11/1965, number: 245654
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR18: 70 days late, AR12: 24 days late, AR09: 10 days late,
Main office

Wellow Church Schoolroom
Newark Road
WELLOW
NEWARK
Nottinghamshire
NG22 0EA

Objectives

AS A READING-ROOM, CLUBROOM, LECTURE HALL, ENTERTAINMENT HALL AND OTHERWISE AS A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF WELLOW AFORESAID.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WELLOW.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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