Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 7

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Large legacies income: +1
Strong growth: +2

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 16

COMMUNITY ACTION DERBY LTD

The Charity encourages, supports and develops groups and organisations involved in voluntary action. It promotes new initiatives which tackle social exclusion and economic disadvantage and works to establish partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
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:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
This charity only provides its support via other charities
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
There are 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

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	*	£3,888	£3,753	£135	£0	£1,736	£900	2.9	35	28
31/03/22		£2,527	£2,464	£63	£220	£1,601	£810	3.9	28	427
31/03/21		£1,921	£1,208	£713	£245	£1,147	£364	3.6	17	0
31/03/20	*	£301	£328	£-27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/19		£374	£431	£-57	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	21
31/03/18		£471	£482	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£375	£421	£-46	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£480	£490	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£522	£513	£9	£34	£736	£409	9.6	10	0
31/03/14		£492	£676	£-184	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£464	£612	£-148	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£529	£591	£-61	£46	£1,128	£775	15.7	18	0
31/03/11	*	£817	£1,180	£-363	£22	£1,121	£756	7.7	33	0
31/03/10	*	£1,205	£1,212	£-7	£31	£927	£497	4.9	28	0
31/03/09	*	£1,333	£1,345	£-12	£127	£825	£406	3.6	26	0
31/03/08		£1,906	£1,822	£84	£156	£776	£371	2.4	30	0
31/03/07		£2,259	£2,286	£-27	£75	£692	£410	2.2	38	0
31/03/06		£2,050	£1,985	£64	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£1,755	£1,683	£72	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£1,770	£1,653	£117	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 52%
Reserves/Spending: 2.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 6.9

Asset Split ?

Established: 29 years

www.communityactionderby.org.uk

enquiries@communityactionderby.org.uk

01332346266

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Community services

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body

Where it operates

Derbyshire,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who works here?

35 employees
28 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	£230,977
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£15,000
Masonic Trust	£250

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Community Action Derby
£15,000	02/08/2022	Derby's Community Archive Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Derby Youth Alliance (DYA)
£135,826	24/03/2022	The funding will will enable Community Action Derbyshire (CAD) to employ a Coordinator to manage their recently piloted Derby Youth Alliance. The DYA works with local youth providers who meet their ....more The funding will will enable Community Action Derbyshire (CAD) to employ a Coordinator to manage their recently piloted Derby Youth Alliance. The DYA works with local youth providers who meet their Youth Alliance Quality Assessment (QA) criteria and are referred to as Approved Alliance Providers. The main responsibility of the DYA is to support providers to build their capacity and improve quality to best support the most vulnerable and challenged young people referred to them by statutory agencies and in their own organisation’s mainstream services.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£250	01/12/2021	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - Derby Covid 19 Alliance Network
£50,361	15/05/2020 6	This organisation is a key partner in Derby's COVID-19 response which was formed after the lockdown began. The funding will help employ three co-ordinators who will develop three alliances. This ....more This organisation is a key partner in Derby's COVID-19 response which was formed after the lockdown began. The funding will help employ three co-ordinators who will develop three alliances. This includes the Food Network Alliance which will deliver food and essential supplies; Information and Advice Alliance developing a network of groups who can provide advice on a range of issues; Black Asian and minority ethnic and diversity alliance to encourage collaboration of grassroots and faith groups.
National Lottery Community Fund - Derby Equalities Alliance
£44,790	10/12/2019 10	Community Action Derby (CAD) working together with Disability Direct will establish and develop an Equality Alliance of local voluntary and community sector organisations, groups and individuals. The ....more Community Action Derby (CAD) working together with Disability Direct will establish and develop an Equality Alliance of local voluntary and community sector organisations, groups and individuals. The grant will provide CAD with seed funding to start a wider community conversation and develop a strong foundation to move forward.
Department for Work and Pensions - Journey to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
£19,646	01/04/2018	Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Action Derby Website
£9,984	08/11/2017 12	This group will update their website to current standards, so they can offer online courses and fully serve the needs of their users.
Department for Work and Pensions - Jobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)
£57,207	01/04/2017	Creating peer support Job Clubs to help disabled claimants get back into employment

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How is it governed?

Trustees (13)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 12/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-76

ASAF AFZAL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Taxi Driver, Other trusteeship: PAKISTAN COMMUNITY CENTRE,

BRENDA RHULE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

CARMEL BEVERLEY STEWART Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Project Manager

COUNCILLOR JONATHON SMALE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Cabinet Member For Derby City Council

GEOFF SWEENEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

IRSHAD BAQUI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chief Executive

MICK BRYAN VERNON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Community Worker

ROGER DALE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Procurement Professional

SARA MARTIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Team Leader

SARITA WALIA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

SOPHIE SHIELDS Appointed: 2023

MARK NEWEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Accountant

RAYMOND GEORGE KHUMALO (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Marketing Executive

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/01/1995, number: 1043482
Registered at Companies House on 25/11/1994, number: 02994798

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
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

20 returns made; AR23: 36 days late, AR20: 2 days late, AR12: 9 days late, AR11: 2 days late, AR10: 75 days late, AR09: 20 days late,

Main office

Melbourne Villa
30 Charnwood Street
Derby
DE1 2GU

Objectives

1.TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE CITY OF DERBY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD AND,IN PARTICULAR,THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION,THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. 2.TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES.3. THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF A PUBLIC PARK OR OTHER AMENITY IN THE VICINITY OF A LANDFILL SITE, WHERE IT IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF DERBY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

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