Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

THE NORFOLK GARDENS TRUST 

Monitoring and preserving the historic gardens of Norfolk
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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 and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/12/23£23£28£-5n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/22£44£39£5n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/21£32£28£4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/20£11£12£-1n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/19£34£39£-5n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/18£33£39£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£31£22£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£20£18£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15*£15£25£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£10£8£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13*£46£23£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12*£26£5£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£7£4£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10*£7£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09*£6£3£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£6£7£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07*£5£6£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06*£7£3£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05*£5£2£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04*£4£2£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 35 years
Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookInstagramX
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Norfolk,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 30 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/08/1989, number: 801984
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR15: 60 days late, AR13: 3 days late, AR12: 109 days late, AR10: 13 days late, AR09: 142 days late, AR07: 236 days late, AR06: 402 days late, AR05: 423 days late, AR04: 788 days late,
Main office

HILL HOUSE
WACTON
NORWICH
NR15 2UE

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF GARDEN LAND. (B) TO PRESERVE ENHANCE AND RE-CREATE FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC WHATEVER GARDEN LAND MAY EXIST OT HAVE EXISTED IN AND AROUND NORFOLK.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORFOLK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

Tips for Selecting Charities

Which areas of philanthropy are most effective?
The text of this post is taken from an article on the Effective Altruism forum. It suggests that you can achieve the most impact by supporting causes that fight extreme poverty, improving animal welfare....more
Our Top Tips for Philanthropy
Here are some ideas to help you gain more satisfaction from your philanthropy and confidence that the causes you have selected are impactful. Engage your brain, as well as your heart You....more
How to become a Philanthropist
In this Blog we outline a strategy to help people who are new to philanthropy and for those who feel dissatisfied with the impact they are having. Effective philanthropy is immensely rewarding for donors,....more

Giving is Great