Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

BRUNSWICK CENTRE 

Providing HIV support and prevention services in Calderdale and Kirklees.LGBT youth services in Kirklees.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£554£505£49£0£295£2455.896
31/03/22£480£453£26n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/21£368£353£15n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/20*£407£364£43n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/19£285£265£20n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18*£367£318£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£303£307£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£319£348£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£330£296£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£328£316£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£332£310£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£341£331£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£382£395£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£366£358£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£309£384£-75£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£301£306£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£323£307£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£288£315£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£362£365£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£364£348£17£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 5.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 10.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 31 years

www.thebrunswickcentre.org.uk

info@thebrunswickcentre.org.uk

01484469691

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other specialist outpatient services
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Calderdale, Kirklees,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 9 employees
  • 6 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
Henry Smith Charity£169,600
Community Foundation for Calderdale£37,644
National Lottery Community Fund£7,521
Sport England£2,893
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to The Brunswick Centre
£9,350 04/10/2023
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Calderdale Play & Stay Group for LGBTQ+ children together with their parents/carers
£4,644 08/08/2023
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to The Brunswick Centre
£2,100 16/12/2022
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to The Brunswick Centre
£4,000 30/11/2022
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Mind Your Head
£10,000 28/11/2022
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
National Lottery Community Fund - Rainbow Resources - LGBT yOUTh
£7,521 04/11/2022
The funding will be used to develop online and hard copy self-care resources which will be co-produced by young people from the LGBTQ+ community and based on their lived experiences. The project aims ....more
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to The Brunswick Centre
£750 12/05/2022
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to The Brunswick Centre
£1,800 09/12/2021
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Mind Your Head
£5,000 26/05/2021
Grant to The Brunswick Centre
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brunswick Centre
£169,600 04/02/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support and counselling for LGBT young people in Kirklees, Yorkshire.
Sport England - TGC CF - Kirklees and Calderdale Girls Can..and do
£2,893 21/12/2020
11
This project will overcome barriers to activity by providing a programme of online and face to face exercise sessions for service users.
Sport England - TIED - Positive Living
£3,920 22/03/2018
24
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled TIED - Positive Living. This project lists its main activity as ....more
DCMS - ALB-TIED - Positive Living
£3,920 22/03/2018
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'TIED - Positive Living'. This project lists its main activity ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - yOUTh (Youth Out project)
£432,380 25/01/2017
60
The project will offer improved support to people aged 11-24 who identify as LGBT and are experiencing health and social inequalities including exclusion, physical attacks and family breakdown. ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Brunswick Centre
£25,000 28/01/2013
This charity provides support and advice to men and African communities in the Kirklees area who are affected by HIV and AIDS. They will use the grant to fund a new Benefits and Grants Advisory ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-71
  • EDWIN BUCKLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Communications
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/11/1992, number: 1015450
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/11/1992, number: 02764525
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; AR20: 23 days late, AR18: 120 days late,
Main office

The Brunswick Centre
Brian Jackson House
2 New North Parade
HUDDERSFIELD
HD1 5JP

Objectives

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS WORKING WITHIN THE SEXUAL HEALTH FIELD ESPECIALLY IN THE FIELD OF AIDS, INFECTION, ILLNESS OR ANY RELATED CONDITION CAUSED BY HIV OR OTHER CAUSATIVE AGENTS AND OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IN PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM HIV INFECTION AND AIDS AND IN LIMITED THE SPREAD OF THE INFECTION (2)THE PRESERVATION AND SAFEGUARDING OF THE HEALTH, WELFARE AND INTERESTS OF PERSONS WITH HIV INFECTION, AIDS, AIDS RELATED OR HIV RELATED PROBLEMS. (3) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS WITH HIV INFECTION, AIDS AIDS-RELATED HIV AND SEXUAL HEALTH RELATED PROBLEMS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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