Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

THE ALICE CROSS CENTRE

To further the well-being of older people and the wider community in Teignmouth/Shaldon by supporting healthy living, through the provision of a community centre with meals (including a meal delivery service), activities and clubs. Activities include: fitness classes, table tennis, oriental dancing, music sessions, a memory cafe, digital skills, bingo, cookery classes, craft and social events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£133£147£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/22£65£94£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/21£89£88£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/20£105£92£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/19*£108£86£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/18£94£88£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/17£111£110£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/16£90£99£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/15£83£85£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/14£75£70£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/13£84£75£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/12£79£70£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/11£60£61£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/10£43£41£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/09£42£47£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/08£42£40£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/07£41£43£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/06£37£40£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/05£24£25£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/04£22£29£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 36 years

www.thealicecross.co.uk

info@thealicecross.co.uk

01626 778039

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Social clubs and similar
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Devon Community Foundation£11,800
The Foyle Foundation£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Co-Operative Group£3,907
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Alice Cross Community Café
£1,672 21/10/2023
We would like to start a community café to bring people together and make healthy, sustainable food affordable for everyone. Our aim is to reduce social isolation, food poverty and food waste.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 13/10/2023
The Alice Cross Centre - supporting older people in Devon
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£10,000 10/07/2023
towards core costs over the next 12 months
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to The Alice Cross Centre
£2,000 28/06/2023
The provision a free hot, nutritional meal delivered to the homes of vulnerable elderly residents of Teignbridge.
National Lottery Community Fund - Meal Home Delivery Service
£10,000 01/07/2022
The funding will be used to provide a meal home delivery service to vulnerable members of the community. The project aims to enable vulnerable and elderly people to live independently in their own homes for longer and reduce isolation.
Devon Community Foundation - Alice's Meet and Eat
£2,000 02/12/2021
Funding to provide subsidised lunch clubs and a singalong coffee morning to bring elderly and vulnerable people together and encourage healthy eating.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Alice Cross Centre
£2,235 23/10/2021
Our project will enable those who are unable to come to the Alice Cross Centre to take part in activities with their friends through interactive digital technology.
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Lockdown 2 in Teignmouth
£3,000 02/12/2020
6
Grant to Age Concern Teignmouth and Shaldon)
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Coronavirus emergency aid in Teignmouth
£4,800 30/04/2020
2
Grant to Age Concern Teignmouth and Shaldon)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Age Concern Teignmouth & Shaldon - Alice Cross Centre
£3,946 15/11/2019
We help elderly people with memory loss problems to find ways of coping and overcoming some of their difficulties.
Sport England - Trim Teign Fitness
£6,382 24/08/2018
10
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Trim Teign Fitness. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on older beneficiaries.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Age Concern Teignmouth & Shaldon
£2,867 29/11/2017
We need to hire people and transport to help older people get out of their homes and join in with a wide range of healthy activities.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-75
  • ANDY LONGFORD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • DEBORAH MINETT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor
  • PAUL HOWARD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Sales Executive
  • SARAH HOLLOWAY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Financial Consultant
  • SUZANNE MARIE HALFYARD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Associate & Chartered Legal Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/04/1989, number: 800996
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/01/1989, number: 02338079
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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR19: 70 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE OPEN DAW - DAWLISH COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTRE on 13/08/2021
Main office

Alice Cross Centre
1-3 Bitton Park Road
TEIGNMOUTH
TQ14 9BT

Objectives

(a) to promote and provide for the welfare of elderly people, including the relief of poverty, ill health, suffering and distress of such people, within the area of Teignmouth and the surrounding area in any manner which now is or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable;(b) to promote for the benefit of people in Teignmouth and the surrounding area the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said inhabitants; (c) to preserve and protect the health of people in Teignmouth and the surrounding area, in particular (but not exclusively) by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities to improve health and fitness, and the provision of information and support in relation to healthy eating; and (d) to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this article ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards; crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society).

Defined Area of Benefit:

TEIGNMOUTH AND DISTRICT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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