Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

VENUS WORKING CREATIVELY WITH YOUNG WOMEN 

Venus' mission is to empower, promote and support women, young women and their children in developing their potential, recognising their choices, achieving their goals and challenging injustice.
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
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 28 years

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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£1,518£1,724£-205£0£479£3442.45730
31/03/22£1,671£1,630£41£0£684£5804.35848
31/03/21*£1,538£1,284£254£0£644£53754220
31/03/20£1,000£903£96£0£389£3724.93030
31/03/19£978£846£132£0£287£2683.82920
31/03/18£894£882£12£0£155£580.8280
31/03/17£789£732£57£0£143£711.2280
31/03/16£518£565£-47£0£86£671.4170
31/03/15£446£466£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£339£366£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£306£311£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£387£293£93£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£300£242£58£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£284£215£68£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£191£186£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£203£195£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£235£264£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£250£220£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£271£278£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£294£269£24£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 72%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cheshire East, Sefton,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 57 employees
  • 30 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£186,656
National Lottery Heritage Fund£125,000
DCMS£115,248
Steve Morgan Foundation£100,000
Wolfson Foundation£100,000
Smallwood Trust£60,000
BBC Children in Need£57,594
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Venus Digital Skills
£6,985 23/08/2023
To provide digital skills training sessions for 26 weeks for the local community supported through their resettlement programme and International Cafe. 3 ipads will be purchased to allow more ....more
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Venus Charity
£100,000 28/02/2023
Grant awarded to Venus Charity
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Halton Supporting Families
£1,000 05/01/2023
To provide an afterschool club once a week for local families focused on parent-child activities with themes of wellbeing, thoughts and feelings, stress, and happiness.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Venus Charity
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Money Management Shop
£6,000 21/11/2022
To deliver a Money Management Shop to support people in the community with debt management, financial literacy and energy savings advice. This would run for 3 days a week in February 2023.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - D'Fuse- Digital Expression
£24,482 07/10/2022
Grant to VENUS
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Cooking Sessions for Homeless Clients
£2,490 10/08/2022
To provide cooking sessions to homeless males.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Venus Charity
£100,000 08/06/2022
Refurbishment of listed building to house the charity’s mental health services for women and families
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - International Cafe
£5,000 24/05/2022
The funding will be used to support the delivery of the international cafe.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - IT Infrastructure
£682 06/05/2022
The funding will be used to purchase hard drives for 10 donated PCs.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Venus Working Creatively with Young Women
£50,000 18/03/2022
towards the redevelopment of Kings House as a new centre for an organisation supporting vulnerable women in Bootle
National Lottery Community Fund - Step Together
£180,256 24/01/2022
The project aims to provide person centred support for women whose child/children have been placed in alternative care. Funding for the group will go towards staff costs.
Smallwood Trust - Funding for distribution as grants to individuals
£10,000 16/12/2021
This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 29/10/2021
Weston Charity Award Winner 2020/21 Bonus Award
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Venus Charity
£14,000 23/09/2021
Towards the Open Access Service
Smallwood Trust - Improving the financial resilience, mental health and wellbeing of women 18+.
£50,000 12/07/2021
£50,000 has been awarded to Venus Charity to enable young women to gain skills in financial planning and budgeting, be provided with advocacy, supported to renegotiate debt payments or apply for ....more
Rosa UK - WTF-VENUS-2021
£50,000 12/07/2021
£50,000 has been awarded to Venus Charity to enable young women to gain skills in financial planning and budgeting, be provided with advocacy, supported to renegotiate debt payments or apply for ....more
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to The Venus Charity
£39,840 01/02/2021
Kings Centre
Tudor Trust - Grant to Venus Working Creatively with Young Women
£2,000 15/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Venus Charity
£50,000 09/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Venus Charity, awarded under the Foundation's Mental Health funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£68,000 09/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Venus Resource Centre
£57,594 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver therapeutic one-to-one and group sessions for children experiencing mental ill-health which has been exacerbated by Covid-19. It will improve their coping skills.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£28,050 02/09/2020
"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
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£19,198 01/07/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 12/06/2020
Weston Charity Award Winner 2020/21
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to VENUS WORKING CREATIVELY WITH YOUNG WOMEN
£125,000 05/03/2020
The Kings Centre
National Lottery Community Fund - The International Café
£6,400 30/05/2019
12
The charity will develop its International Café initiative to help more refugees and asylum seekers by empowering to help themselves and to help others in the same situation. The aim of the project ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Venus Centre
£59,600 04/10/2018
Venus Centre Development Project
Tudor Trust - Grant to Venus Working Creatively with Young Women
£93,000 18/01/2018
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the Families At Risk project supporting vulnerable families in Bootle
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Venus Working Creatively With Young Women
£25,000 24/10/2016
Building refurbishment for a charity which works with disadvantaged young women in Bootle
Tudor Trust - Grant to Venus Working Creatively with Young Women
£40,000 07/10/2016
12
towards the refubishment of the Orrell Road Library into a counselling centre for an organsiation supporting vulnerable women in Bootle
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Venus
£15,000 01/09/2016
Towards the children's counselling service
National Lottery Community Fund - WGI stage 2
£421,863 22/03/2016
60
Venus will work with women who have lost their children to public care or adoption to empower them to manage their own lives. Venus will get involved early when their are further pregnancies and ....more
Comic Relief - Money Management Project
£91,140 27/01/2016
36
Vulnerable women and their children, including those who have experienced domestic violence, recovering from drug or alcohol dependence or living in poverty, often face increased levels of financial ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Venus Working Creatively with Young Women
£90,000 26/08/2014
36
over three years towards the salary of an outreach support worker to work with vulnerable mothers and their children in Bootle, Merseyside
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Venus Resource Centre
£2,500 14/05/2014
towards a holiday to a caravan park in North Wales for a group of children from a deprived area of Liverpool
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venus Working Creatively with Young Women
£15,000 08/10/2013
Towards a programme that will provide intensive educational and home support to vulnerable women and their children.
National Lottery Community Fund - Making A Difference
£277,816 17/04/2013
48
This is a new project to be delivered in the Sefton area of Liverpool. The aim of the project is to work collectively to deliver a central hub and network through which care leavers can provide and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Venus Counselling Service
£97,569 13/09/2011
36
This is a project to run women's counselling service in Merseyside helping vulnerable women deal with bereavement, stress and difficult life situations such as alcohol, drugs, grief and loss, and ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 25-73
  • BARBARA DUTTON (Chair) Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Retired - It Service Manager
  • HELEN CONDRAN Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired - Nhs Health Worker
  • EMILY ABBEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • EMMA BUSH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Programmes
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/04/1996, number: 1054622
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/12/1995, number: 03136727
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • 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; AR21: 1 days late, AR07: 169 days late, AR06: 540 days late, AR04: 26 days late,
Main office

VENUS CENTRE
215 LINACRE LANE
BOOTLE
L20 6AD

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH OF THOSE YOUNG WOMEN RESIDING IN THE AREA OF SOUTH SEFTON PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN MATTERS RELATING TO SEXUAL HEALTH:THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID WOMEN

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTH SEFTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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