Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 1

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -1

BLETCHINGLEY SKILLS CENTRE

We offer lifelong learning skills to adults with disabilities including registered blind and partially sighted. These skills are aimed at increasing independence whilst encouraging social interaction and self-confidence in a friendly and informal environment. We offer courses in Computing, Cookery, Literacy, Arts & Crafts, Drama, Music Therapy and seated Yoga.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

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
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 33 years

www.bletchingleyskillscentre.org

bletchingley.sc@gmail.com

01883 743772

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£52	£56	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/22		£62	£58	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/21		£23	£33	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/20		£49	£55	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/19		£50	£60	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/18		£59	£52	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£58	£53	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£57	£50	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£52	£50	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£47	£50	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£48	£51	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£48	£49	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£50	£49	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£52	£50	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£45	£45	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£45	£44	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£46	£44	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£43	£44	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£41	£44	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£45	£46	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Surrey,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - COVID19 - People with Disabilities
£5,000	08/10/2020	Funding toward the essential running costs of a centre, that offers life skills to adults with disabilities, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Bletchingley Skills Centre renumeration fund.
£6,500	15/11/2016 36	Wages for two-part time assistants working with people with physical, visual or hearing impairments.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Bletchingley Skills Centre
£20,000	16/03/2015 36	towards three years' running costs of a project in Surrey providing educational courses for disabled adults

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

ASHLEY LOUISE FOSDIKE Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: BLETCHINGLEY SKILLS CENTRE,

CAROLE ANNE EVANS Appointed: 2023

ERIC STEPHEN FOSDIKE Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: BLETCHINGLEY SKILLS CENTRE,

ROGER WILLMORE

TRYFANA MCMILLAN Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/03/1991, number: 1002273

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints 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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR07: 2 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from EAST SURREY MENCAP on 20/07/2022

Main office

Stychens Lane
Bletchingley
Surrey
RH1 4LL

Objectives

TO OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISABLED AND ABLE BODIED PEOPLE TO WORK TOGETHER ON AN EQUAL BASIS, DEVELOPING THE SKILLS NEEDED FOR AN ORDINARY AND VALUED LIFE; LEADING TO FURTHER EDUCATION OR EMPLOYMENT; TO OFFER RELIEF FROM ILLNESS, SICKNESS AND SUFFERING OF PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF TANDRIDGE; AND TO BRING SUCH PERSONS INTO CLOSER ASSOCIATION WITH ABLE BODIED PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

TANDRIDGE

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