Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

BARNET CARERS CENTRE 

The relief of persons caring for those suffering from disability arising from age or physical or mental disability by the provision of advice, support and information for those persons caring in the London Borough of Barnet.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender 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£1,357£1,504£-147£20£95£780.6638
31/03/22£1,457£1,445£12£37£241£830.79111
31/03/21£1,457£1,445£13£31£229£1040.97025
31/03/20£1,369£1,413£-44£30£216£930.87127
31/03/19*£1,315£1,359£-44£26£260£1391.27150
31/03/18£1,305£1,277£28£26£304£1801.7710
31/03/17£1,216£1,258£-42£23£277£1481.4700
31/03/16*£1,340£1,334£6£16£319£1811.6810
31/03/15£1,143£1,125£18£37£316£1681.8380
31/03/14£1,172£1,180£-8£38£298£941380
31/03/13£1,129£1,169£-40£45£306£850.9440
31/03/12£1,158£1,200£-41£59£347£1101.1440
31/03/11£1,311£1,257£54£59£388£1421.4420
31/03/10£670£634£36£20£334£1212.3150
31/03/09£593£541£51£26£298£1443.2150
31/03/08£558£552£6£23£247£1252.7150
31/03/07£566£519£48£18£240£922.1160
31/03/06£499£447£52£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£425£394£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£342£327£16£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 55%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 0.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 28 years

www.barnetcarers.org

admin@barnetcarers.org

02083439698

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 63 employees
  • 8 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£59,013
City Bridge Trust£36,870
BBC Children in Need£29,997
The London Community Foundation£9,272
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Barnet Carers Centre
£2,650 02/12/2020
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The London Community Foundation - Grant to Barnet Carers Centre
£9,272 30/09/2020
Development and rollout of a bespoke app (Carers Community) for informal carers living in London (with potential for subsequent rollout across the UK). The remote app will enhance our existing ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,272 30/09/2020
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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,741 29/07/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Barnet Carers Centre
£31,870 11/06/2020
£31,870 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Barnet Carers Centre
£5,000 13/04/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Barnet Carers Centre
£29,997 20/03/2020
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This project will provide wellbeing and peer mentoring support activities for young carers not currently engaged in services. The sessions will help to improve their emotional wellbeing, reduce ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Barnet Carers Centre
£5,899 15/11/2019
We want to raise money to run youth clubs for young carers, aged 5-17, within the Borough of Barnet.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 54-80
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/08/1996, number: 1057539
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/01/1996, number: 03151878
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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; AR19: 3 days late, AR16: 0 days late,
Main office

BARNET CARERS CENTRE
GLOBAL HOUSE
303 BALLARDS LANE
LONDON
N12 8NP

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS CARING FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DISABILITY ARISING FROM AGE, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, ORDRUG OR ALCOHOL ABUSE, AND THE RELIEF OF THOSE PERSONS BEING CARED FOR, BY:(A) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT AND INFORMATION; AND(B) THE PROVISION OF CARE AND RESPITE SERVICES.PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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