Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION 

Information service giving advice and support on any disability related issue to people with disabilities, their families and carers. A large proportion of the work involves assisting people to complete welfare benefit forms. Drop In Centre for physically disabled adults and their carers, providing social and learning opportunities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£99£87£13n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22£56£62£-6n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£62£51£11n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£34£65£-31n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/19£68£56£11n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/18£47£51£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£38£41£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£31£33£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£46£33£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£48£31£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£60£73£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£84£88£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£77£82£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£92£85£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£92£85£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£66£88£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£85£118£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£195£183£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£160£138£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£108£111£-3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 44 years

www.allerdaledisability.com

people@adanet.org.uk

0190061912

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£113,542
DCMS£26,200
Cumbria Community Foundation£15,431
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - ADA
£103,542 20/07/2022
The funding will be used over two years to deliver a welfare benefits advice service and drop in centre for disabled people in Allerdale and the West Coast in Cumbria.
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Works
£10,000 20/05/2022
The funding will be used for the refurbishment of the library building which had fallen into disrepair. This will enable the group which supports the disabled community to increase the number of ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Core costs
£8,615 31/03/2021
Core costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£26,200 17/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Staff and mobile phone costs
£6,816 22/04/2020
Staff and mobile phone costs
Cumbria Community Foundation - Community Inclusion Consultation
£4,380 14/12/2018
Community Inclusion Consultation
National Lottery Community Fund - The Inclusion Zone
£10,000 18/10/2018
12
The group will deliver a range of activities and events throughout the year which will include drop-in sessions for adults with disabilities. The project aims to reach more isolated disabled people ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - I. C. E. (Inclusive Community Engagement)
£99,755 12/05/2010
36
This project in Workington will be open to adults with disabilities across the Allerdale local authority area. It aims to reduce feelings of isolation for people with disabilities and to encourage ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/10/1980, number: 510656
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR06: 18 days late,
Main office

Moorclose Community Centre
Needham Drive
WORKINGTON
CA14 3SE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF DISABLED PEOPLE WITHIN ALLERDALE AND WEST COAST DISTRICT IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW IS OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE AFOREGOING (1) TO CO-OPERATE WITH VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY ORGANISATIONS IN ORDER TO CO-ORDINATE THEIR ACTIVITIES RELATING TO DISABLED PEOPLE (2) TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION RELATING TO DISABLED PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ALLERDALE AND WEST COAST DISTRICT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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