Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

COMMUNITY ACTION NORFOLK 

Our focus is on building a stronger and fairer Norfolk through support, empowerment and strategic partnership with voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. Our activities cover three main areas: 1) practical support for organisations and communities 2) leading VCSE engagement and voice work in Norfolk3) working to ensure fair outcomes for all
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 28 years

http://www.communityactionnorfolk.org.uk/

office@communityactionnorfolk.org.uk

01362698216

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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£566£620£-54£0£365£2805.4110
31/03/22£685£626£59£0£420£3336.4110
31/03/21£843£781£63£0£361£3235111
31/03/20£862£819£43£0£298£2373.5121
31/03/19£922£697£225£0£256£2223.8131
31/03/18*£614£724£-110£0£31£180.3130
31/03/17£829£704£126£0£140£-8-0.1120
31/03/16£610£489£121£27£15£-93-2.3100
31/03/15£353£335£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£426£408£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£470£490£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£564£549£15£197£-14£-25-0.6110
31/03/11£711£721£-9£180£2£-21-0.3130
31/03/10£546£530£16£146£139£1222.8100
31/03/09£570£618£-48£144£116£871.7110
31/03/08£1,561£1,628£-67£241£174£1060.8220
31/03/07£1,733£1,668£65£221£244£1180.8200
31/03/06£1,318£1,346£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£1,167£1,187£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,150£1,151£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 77%
Reserves/Spending: 5.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 4.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Norfolk,

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
National Lottery Community Fund - Good Neighbour Network
£156,825 05/05/2021
The grant will be used to fund a development officer to support new and existing mutual aid groups. It will also be used to develop a formal coordinated Good Neighbour and Mutual Aid Scheme network ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Good Neighbour Response Teams
£21,000 08/07/2020
6
Community Action Norfolk is seeking funding to continue employing a full-time voluntary scheme coordinator. The funding aims to ensure that both emerging local groups of volunteers and existing ....more
Comic Relief - Community Action Norfolk Recovery Funding
£30,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Operation No Cold Shoulder
£97,000 28/02/2019
36
The project will work with partners to deliver a coordinated set of interventions at key points in the year to target the loneliness associated with winter. This will be split in to four elements: ....more
Comic Relief - Lily - Spark, Kindle, Glow Project
£79,969 24/01/2018
24
Older people in Norfolk are becoming increasingly isolated and lonely. Using their spark, kindle and glow approach Community Action Norfolk will identify and support isolated older people. The grant ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Meet Ups
£10,000 01/11/2017
12
This project will provide information to local residents, coordinate local providers and services and consult the community through ‘meet ups’, enabling services to become more community focused ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Great Yarmouth Area Good Neighbour Schemes
£10,000 04/02/2015
12
Not Available
Tudor Trust - Grant to Community Action Norfolk
£53,000 13/02/2014
24
over two years towards the salary of a project officer to work with long-established 'poor relief' charities to develop a better understanding of poverty in a modern context and support them to use ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Broadland Good Neighbour Schemes
£10,000 13/12/2012
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Norfolk. The organisation will use funding to implement a good neighbour scheme, particularly for older members of rural communities. This will enable ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Community Action Norfolk
£109,914 30/09/2010
36
Towards Project costs Towards the costs of the Rural Community Land Trusts Development Project.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-78
  • ALTON NUTILE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Commercial
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/07/1996, number: 1056750
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/04/1996, number: 03190820
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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; AR18: 1 days late,
Main office

AMBASSADOR WAY
GREENS ROAD
DEREHAM
NORFOLK
NR20 3TL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK AND IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, AND IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES, BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE, TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTY OF NORFOLK

Data Sources

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