Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

THE SPRING CENTRE TRUST FUND 

We provide services for families who have children with additional needs and disabilities throughout Gloucestershire.We provide pre-school sessions, after school clubs, respite and holiday activities for children and young adults aged 0 - 35 years.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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£196£201£-5n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/22£184£182£2n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/21£198£165£33n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£157£157£0n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/19£183£146£37n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/18£145£151£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£141£142£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£163£147£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£148£134£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£127£118£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£144£118£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£113£114£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£142£125£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£176£140£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£184£162£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£114£150£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07?*£225£180£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£206£202£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£170£194£-24£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 30 years

www.springcentre.org

info@springcentre.org

01452725935

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Child day-care services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
DCMS£26,000
The Fore£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Sport England£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Spring Centre Day Centre
£10,000 13/01/2023
The funding will be used to continue and expand the organisation’s day centre services for children young people with disabilities and additional needs and their families in Gloucestershire. The ....more
The Fore - Grant to The Spring Centre Trust Fund
£15,000 11/11/2021
36
The Spring Centre (TSC) is a Gloucester-based organization that provides day care, after school clubs, preschool services for children, young people and adults with a range of physical, mental and ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£26,000 05/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£10,000 01/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Spring Centre Trust Fund
£17,600 19/09/2011
the salary of the part time care assistant

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/03/1994, number: 1035546
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/02/1994, number: 02899123
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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
19 returns made; AR16: 150 days late, AR09: 140 days late, AR08: 20 days late, AR07: 28 days late,
Main office

GARDNER HOUSE
OLYMPUS PARK
QUEDGELEY
GLOUCESTER
GL2 4NF

Objectives

TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR 'CHILDREN IN NEED' AND TO ASSIST AND PROMOTE DISABLED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES TO LEAD LIVES THAT ARE AS NORMAL AS POSSIBLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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