Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

THE BEACON TRUST 

The Trustees will make donations to such charitable purposes as the Trustees may decide.The main projects supported are The Beacon Orphan Care Project, Blantyre, Malawi.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£55£60£-5n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/22£78£79£-1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£69£58£12n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£27£47£-20n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£65£55£10n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£66£60£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£51£49£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£37£37£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£60£66£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£89£89£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£61£52£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£61£52£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£53£66£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£68£65£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£84£83£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£95£107£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£113£113£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£62£60£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£48£53£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£36£33£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 43 years

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01512606266

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City, Malawi,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 1 volunteer

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/01/1981, number: 281411
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Apartment 171
20 Kings Parade
LIVERPOOL
L3 4GG

Objectives

TO PAY OR APPLY THE SAME FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE AND UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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