Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
All female board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -6

THE BACUP NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

To encourage interest in local flora and fauna and social and industrial history.To maintain and operate a museum, library and lecture programme to support this.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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	*	£15	£15	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22		£23	£30	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/21		£25	£10	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/20		£12	£18	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/19		£21	£17	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18		£8	£15	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£16	£8	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£6	£8	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£16	£15	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£7	£7	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£11	£11	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£4	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£4	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£3	£4	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£4	£6	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£4	£9	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£5	£2	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£4	£3	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£4	£3	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 29 years

www.bacupnaturalhistorysociety.co.uk

c_ormrod@hotmail.com

01706874252

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Lancashire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Grant to Bacup Natural History Society & Museum
£750	31/03/2023	To create a history club to run during May half term with a number of educational activities including discovery of fossils, and local histories.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Bacup Natural History Society
£10,000	31/07/2018	The Muck and Flea Club
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Bacup Natural History Society
£10,000	29/09/2016	Keeping the Home Fires Burning
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Bacup Natural History Society
£10,000	30/06/2014	Nursing Heroes The Fern Hill Story

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CHRISTINE ORMROD MRS Appointed: 2015

JANET ENTWISTLE Appointed: 2022

MARIAN CONNOLLY MRS

WENDY ANN WATTERS Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/04/1995, number: 1045767

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR23: 89 days late,

Main office

170-172 New Line
BACUP
OL13 9RU

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE STUDY OF NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES AND ESPECIALLY TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE ROSSENDALE DISTRICT. TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE LOCALITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ROSSENDALE DISTRICT

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