Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

WALLICH-CLIFFORD COMMUNITY 

The objects of the charity as stated in the Memorandum and Articles of Association are the support of persons who are in need or who are homeless or who are suffering from psychological or physical probelms who are in need of help in acquiring a settled life.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 33 years

https://thewallich.com/

mail@thewallich.net

02920668464

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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£18,900£20,274£-1,374£253£8,453£7,2314.351741
31/03/22£18,464£19,541£-1,077£314£10,028£8,8665.443426
31/03/21£16,968£17,236£-269£148£10,933£9,4936.64268
31/03/20£15,366£15,375£-9£196£10,644£9,3157.3418311
31/03/19£14,590£14,796£-206£217£10,920£9,5697.8412280
31/03/18£13,373£13,360£12£218£10,987£9,6748.73810
31/03/17£12,899£11,657£1,242£204£10,996£9,88010.23160
31/03/16£10,686£10,091£595£78£9,519£8,55510.22620
31/03/15£10,351£9,915£436£67£8,895£7,8199.52530
31/03/14£9,804£9,325£478£54£8,459£7,3829.52270
31/03/13£9,977£8,669£1,308£66£7,981£6,9009.62380
31/03/12£9,247£8,910£338£38£6,667£6,4088.62430
31/03/11£8,929£8,570£359£187£6,330£6,1638.62390
31/03/10£8,400£7,677£723£162£6,009£5,8499.12250
31/03/09£7,636£6,807£829£33£5,299£5,2599.31970
31/03/08£6,695£5,984£711£24£4,470£4,3798.81830
31/03/07*£6,131£5,921£211£26£3,759£3,6857.51940
31/03/06£6,297£5,332£965£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£5,084£4,391£693£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£4,613£3,850£763£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 4.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 517 employees
  • 41 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£4,997,773
National Lottery Heritage Fund£99,518
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£59,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Wallich
£1,009 22/10/2022
We would like to provide personalised anti-anxiety kits for people experiencing homelessness, to help them feel grounded, reduce feelings of anxiety and lower the chances of future crises.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Wallich-Clifford Community
£99,518 05/08/2022
Invisible Cardiff
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 20/05/2022
Supported Learning and Employment
National Lottery Community Fund - Gwent BOOST
£2,982,790 17/01/2022
This partnership of third public and private sector organisations will use their £2982792 grant to boost the current provision working to end homelessness across Gwent. They will develop a social ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - SWANSEA NPT 360
£1,909,368 17/01/2022
This partnership of third sector public sector and educational organisations working across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot will use their grant of £1998867 to support people who have the most complex ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Grow IT
£5,663 26/08/2021
Wallich-Clifford Community in Cardiff will use £5663 to develop a community garden for residents of a young person's housing scheme in Carmarthenshire and their near neighbours.
National Lottery Community Fund - HEH Gwent
£49,976 30/03/2021
4
Through The National Lottery Community Fund’s Helping End Homelessness programme The Wallich in partnership with organisations from the public sector third sector and private sector across ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - HEH Swansea
£49,976 30/03/2021
4
Through The National Lottery Community Fund’s Helping End Homelessness programme The Wallich has received a £49976 grant to develop their ideas to help end homelessness in Swansea and Neath Port ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Wallich
£2,610 24/10/2020
We plan to deliver filmmaking workshops to increase access to opportunities for creative engagement, for people experiencing homelessness.
Crisis UK - Grant to Community Care Collaborative & The Wallich
£5,000 15/05/2020
Support for digital primary care hub for homless people
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - In the Margins
£59,000 16/03/2020
The Wallich will pilot a 24-month programme of creative engagement offers for individuals who have experienced homelessness, with the view to test and evaluate ways to embed creative delivery within ....more
LandAid Charitable Trust - North Wales Hub
£75,000 31/03/2018
2
We are looking to renovate an existing property in Rhyl to develop a multi-use Hub for our services across North Wales. One of the primary drivers for the Hub is to address a key aim of Denbighshire ....more
Comic Relief - Steps away from the street: WISE Project
£40,000 30/11/2016
24
The Wallich, a charity which tackles homelessness in Wales, runs the Working in Sustainable Employment (WISE) project across Cardiff and South Wales to support people affected by homelessness back ....more
Comic Relief - WISE Project
£40,000 31/10/2016
WISE Project
National Lottery Community Fund - BOSS Project (Building Opportunities, Skills & Success)
£998,413 25/05/2016
36
BOSS Project (Building Opportunities, Skills & Success)
National Lottery Community Fund - PREP - Prisoner Release Empowerment Project
£248,166 27/09/2013
36
This project, based in Bridgend, will work with offenders prior to release and after release from prison to provide advice and support to find a home. It will include assisting with managing finances ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Streets Ahead - South East Wales
£249,390 21/03/2012
48
Over three years, the project will work with homeless people at risk of marginalisation and exclusion from society, in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. By developing the knowledge and life skills ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - RECESSION 2: The Wallich Bridgend Solutions Centre -Extra Capacity Worker
£49,772 18/10/2010
24
The project is to expand the current service offered by the solutions service through the provision of additional outreach work with vulnerably housed or homeless people in the county of Bridgend. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Learn to Work
£249,938 28/01/2010
36
The project is to engage homeless people from Swansea and Bridgend in activities that increase their independence, self esteem and engagement within the community and raise their confidence and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-58
  • CINZIA PORCEDDA (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Strategy Advisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/09/1991, number: 1004103
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/09/1991, number: 02642780
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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; AR07: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

The Wallich - Cardiff Hub
18 Park Place
CARDIFF
CF10 3DQ

Objectives

'THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') (WHICH SHALL BE NON-SECTARIAN AND NON POLITICAL) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OR WHO ARE HOMELESS OR WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL PROBLEMS OR WHO (BY REASON OF ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES, ILL HEALTH OR BEING AN EX-OFFENDER) ARE IN NEED OF HELP IN ACQUIRING A SETTLED WAY OF LIFE; THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO SUCH PERSONS TO GAIN ACCESS TO SERVICES APPROPRIATE TO THEIR NEEDS, SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED; AND THE EDUCATION OF AND PROVISION OF LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR SUCH PERSONS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEY DEVELOP FULL MATURITY AS RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EDUCATION, LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELDS OF ARTS, CULTURE AND AMATEUR SPORT)'.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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