Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 7
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Future income +5
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

CHRISTIAN ACTION AND RESOURCE ENTERPRISE LTD

Relieving poverty, hardship and distress in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and the surrounding area North East Lincolnshire
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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
31/03/23£579£519£60£144£360£2275.21723
31/03/22£417£389£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£406£353£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£455£375£80n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£473£433£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£368£413£-45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£354£378£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£355£350£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£395£377£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£380£355£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£328£340£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£329£358£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£511£511£-1£116£159£1593.7130
31/03/10*£539£496£43£119£160£1593.9130
31/03/09£469£452£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£349£368£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£281£251£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£220£196£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£196£203£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£194£180£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 34%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 27.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 36%
Liabilities/Income: 35%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 63%
Reserves/Spending: 5.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 9.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 31 years

www.carenelincs.co.uk

enquiries@carenelincs.co.uk

01472 232310

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • North East Lincolnshire,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
National Lottery Community Fund£275,300
Henry Smith Charity£161,800
Wolfson Foundation£100,000
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£96,500
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£54,546
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
The MSE Charity£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Christian Action & Resource Enterprise (t/a CARE)
£100,000 06/12/2023
Mental health support rooms in new community hub
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Care (Christian Action Resource Enterprise)
£161,800 06/11/2023
towards three years‘ salary and on costs of a Tenancy Officer and Housing Manager at a project providing accommodation for people with experience of homelessness from disadvantaged communities in North East Lincolnshire.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Christian Action & Resource Enterprise Ltd
£96,500 04/10/2023
Support towards intense community support service.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Christian Action & Resource Enterprise Ltd
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
The MSE Charity - Grant to CARE
£7,500 15/09/2022
Cost of Living Crisis Support - Part funding the salary of a money advice keyworker to deliver one to one support to people in financial crisis.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Christian Action & Resource Enterprise Ltd
£50,000 14/09/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Christian Action & Resource Enterprise Ltd
National Lottery Community Fund - Housing and Community Support
£267,000 19/08/2022
This funding will support Christian Action Resource Enterprise (CARE) to continue to support people facing hardship who are homeless or in inadequate homes within some of the most deprived postcodes around Grimsby Immingham in North East ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 24/06/2022
24
CARE Housing and Community Support
National Lottery Community Fund - CARE Developing for the Future
£8,300 20/05/2022
The funding will help to support homeless and vulnerably housed members of the community. The project aims to improve their services enabling them to reach out to vulnerable people.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Christian Action & Resource Enterprise
£5,000 29/04/2022
towards programme costs of its furniture drop-off and collections service. Offering beds, tables and chairs, sofas, wardrobes, pots and pans and clothing items and delivering them to people in need for free.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Christian Action & Resource Enterprise Ltd
£54,546 27/01/2021
24
To enable the organisation to continue its work to strengthen individuals and communities by touching their lives with hope and transforming their lives with action.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation - CARE Grimsby Covid Project
£1,000 01/06/2020
Building adaptations to enable the to deliver a service to vulnerable residents
Lincolnshire Community Foundation - CARE Immingham Covid Project
£2,000 20/03/2020
Emergency food provision
National Lottery Community Fund - CARE Community Housing and Support Project (Continuation)
£422,584 20/06/2019
36
The project will provide help housing those on low income or benefits who are homeless, facing homelessness or in a situation of being housed in poor conditions, with the aim of improving wellbeing and reducing distress in the community.
Leeds Community Foundation - CARE Housing and Support
£41,800 01/03/2019
11
CARE provides deposit free private rented properties to people on low incomes who are homeless, facing homelessness or badly housed. The project is operated from Grimsby, across North East Lincolnshire, a Local Authority within the top 10% ....more
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Christian Action & Resource Enterprise Ltd
£82,007 30/01/2019
24
"Touching lives with hope, transforming lives with action"
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 11/10/2018
Contribution towards Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - CARE Housing & Community Support
£444,250 24/02/2016
36
This project provides a service of housing and community support to vulnerable members living in crises across North East Lincolnshire. Beneficiaries are often homeless and in need of support both to deal with the immediate problem and long term to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Christian Action & Resource Enterprise (CARE)
£32,000 07/12/2012
the salary and on-costs of the Parenting Support Worker, Parenting Administrative Support, staff and volunteer travel and training, postage, stationery and printing, telephone, insurance and professional fees
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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: 42-82
  • DAVID ROBINSON Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Retired
  • GRAHAM ANDREW WHITE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • RUTH BREWIN (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired Commercial Property Solicitor
  • REV LYNNE MARY SMITH Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Ordained Minister Of Church Of England
  • SARAH TAYLOR Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Administrator
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/11/1993, number: 1027978
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/02/1993, number: 02790390
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR11: 14 days late, AR10: 1 days late, AR08: 26 days late,
Main office

The Care Shop
46-47 Alexandra Road
CLEETHORPES
DN35 8LE

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING, ARRANGING, FACILITATING AND ENCOURAGING HELP, CARE, ASSISTANCE AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN GRIMSBY, CLEETHORPES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA OR ANY OTHER PLACE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH HELP, CARE AND ASSISTANCE; AND TO PROVIDE SOCIAL HOUSING TO THOSE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CLEETHORPES AND SURROUNDING AREA, OR ANY OTHER PLACE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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