Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

COAST AND VALE COMMUNITY ACTION 

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the Borough of Scarborough, inlcuding the towns of Scarborough, Whitby and Filey, and its neighbouring areas and, in particular, the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness; To promote and and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above purposes.
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 dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 27 years

www.cavca.org.uk

MEL@CAVCA.ORG.UK

01723362205

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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£724£673£50£0£3,167£4908.72211
31/03/22£751£676£75£0£3,116£4467.92516
31/03/21£811£677£135£0£3,041£3916.92615
31/03/20£725£758£-33£0£2,907£37862719
31/03/19£786£767£19£0£2,940£3645.7285
31/03/18£838£777£61£0£2,921£3475.4270
31/03/17£874£766£108£0£2,860£3235.1290
31/03/16£883£3,459£-2,575£0£2,762£3051.1280
31/03/15£904£925£-21£15£5,337£3114190
31/03/14£528£918£-390£15£5,359£4586210
31/03/13£3,297£631£2,666£25£5,749£1,02519.5190
31/03/12£1,787£595£1,192£24£2,804£66513.4120
31/03/11£1,195£740£454£25£1,608£74812.1170
31/03/10£685£681£4£12£1,181£78313.8170
31/03/09£690£667£23£12£1,120£81014.6160
31/03/08£689£719£-30£24£1,142£92915.5160
31/03/07*£180£195£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£200£191£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£226£205£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£140£137£3£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: 18%
Liabilities/Income: 93%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 15%
Reserves/Spending: 8.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 4.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 22 employees
  • 11 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • North Yorkshire,

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 Heritage Fund£99,824
Masonic Trust£29,823
Power to Change£25,000
Two Ridings Community Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,840
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£29,823 20/07/2023
We Are Family Community Practitioner
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Coast and Vale Community Action
£99,824 04/05/2023
Waste Not Want Not
National Lottery Community Fund - Songs and Scones
£9,840 16/09/2022
The funding will be used to deliver music sessions to the older people in the community. The project aims to bring the community together reducing loneliness and isolation.
Power to Change - C-19 TISS - Coast and Vale Community Action
£25,000 02/07/2020
Grant to C-19 TISS - Coast and Vale Community Action
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£5,000 14/05/2020
CaVCA are seeking a discretionary pot for micro giving across the borough of Scarborough. £5000 would help to support approximately 50 mutual aid initiatives. Funds would enable locally grown and ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£5,000 15/04/2020
Funding to provide meals on wheels to older people who are isolated and vulnerable.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - CaVCA Social Action
£4,790 12/06/2018
Staffing and operational costs for a group of school children in Malton to work on a fundraising and campaigning project designed to provide and create community volunteering opportunities for a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Totally Socially
£497,671 02/11/2016
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This project will bring local people together to identify common community challenges and provide the support to enable them to create new enterprises, initiatives and events which will provide ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-79
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/04/1997, number: 1061713
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/03/1997, number: 03330062
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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; AR07: 27 days late,
Main office

THE STREET
12 LOWER CLARK STREET
SCARBOROUGH
YO12 7PW

Objectives

The Charitable Objects of Coast and Vale Community Action are to promote any Charitable Purposes for the benefit of the public, principally, but not exclusively, on the Yorkshire Coast and Rural Hinterland of the Borough of Scarborough, the District of Ryedale in the County of North Yorkshire, and in the East Riding of Yorkshire (herinafter called the 'Area of Benefit', and in particular by:A. Building the capacity of local people and groups in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their own needs and participate more fully in society;B. Promoting urban, rural and coastal regeneration through:a. the provision of enterprise advice and consultancy;b. the provision of workspace, buildings and / or land on favourable terms;c. the provision of community, cultural, social, recreational and leisure facilities, activities and / or centres for community use; andd. such other means as may from time to time be determined by Trustees, subject to the prior written consent of the Charity Commission for England and WalesC. in furtherance of said Objects, the Charity may assist other organisations established for the benefit of said communities and promote cooperation and partnership working between all sectors in the achievement of the above purposes within the area of benefit.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF SCARBOROUGH INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF SCARBOROUGH, WHITBY AND FILEY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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