Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

GRANBY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH GROUP 

GCMHG - Mary Seacole House (MSH) is a multicultural mental health resource service primarily for people from BAMER communities who are living with mental health issues and who also encounter racism or discrimination in their day to day living.MSH provides a range of services for its users, i.e. Day Service Support, Mon-Fri, Advocacy Service, Training, Volunteers, and Student Placements, Mon-Fri
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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.maryseacolehouse.com

info@maryseacolehouse.com

0151 707 0319

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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£527£479£48£0£488£47611.91625
31/03/22£447£409£38n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/21£466£349£117n/an/an/an/an/a19
31/03/20£323£361£-38n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/19£305£336£-31n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£351£366£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£404£406£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£410£341£69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£384£306£78£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£351£314£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£385£368£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£273£297£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£317£317£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£295£279£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£295£275£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£315£302£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£296£304£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£289£294£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£290£269£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£287£239£48£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: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 11.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 104.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 16 employees
  • 25 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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Granby Community Mental health Group - Mary Seacole House
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Mary Seacole House
£102,500 10/03/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing support for those experiencing mental ill health in the BAMER community in disadvantaged areas of Princes Park, Liverpool, Merseyside.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Granby Community Mental health Group - Mary Seacole House
£50,000 02/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Granby Community Mental health Group - Mary Seacole House, awarded under the Foundation's Racial Equity funding stream. Part of the Covid ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Granby Community Mental Health Group (Mary Seacole House)
£21,000 01/01/2019
Towards the salary of the BEM Family Support Service Co-ordinator
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Granby Community Mental Health Group (Mary Seacole House)
£7,000 01/05/2017
Towards the salary of the BEM Family Support Service Co-ordinator
Tudor Trust - Grant to Granby Community Mental Health Group - Mary Seacole House
£40,000 16/08/2013
24
over two years towards core salary and running costs at an organisation supporting members of the BME community in Liverpool
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Granby Community Mental Health Group
£16,000 28/06/2013
The charity provides a range of support to BME people who are in the mental health system. Support includes a day care service, floating support to enable independent living, Carers Service and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-61
  • KAHRA WAYLAND-LARTY (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Snr Consultant On Equality Diversity & Inclusion
  • KEMI OTUBU Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Administrator
  • SALLY BRAJKOVICH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trusts And Foundations Fundraising Manager
  • TRACY DICKENS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of Therapeutic Services: Adhd Foundation
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/06/1997, number: 1062895
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/05/1996, number: 03204514
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 38 days late,
Main office

91 Upper Parliament Street
Toxteth
Liverpool
L8 7LB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE TO PROMOTE WITHIN (ENGLAND AND WALES) AND MORE PARTICULAR THE AREAS WITH A HIGH PROPORTION OF RACIAL MINORITY RESIDENTS WITHIN THE MERSEYSIDE POSTAL DISTRICTS TO ESTABLISH AND DEVELOP AMONGST OTHER LAWFUL THINGS THE SETTING UP OF BAMER (BLACK, ASIAN, MINORITY ETHNIC & REFUGEES) MENTAL HEALTH DAY SERVICES, FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES, ADVOCACY SUPPORT, DROP IN CENTRES AND/OR RESPITE CARE OR BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS HEREINAFTER PERMITTED THE PRESERVING AND THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING SUPPORT TO THOSE SUFFERING OR HAVING SUFFERED FROM MENTAL, PTSD (POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER) AND OR PHYSICAL DISORDERS. TO ALSO PROVIDE HEALTHY LIVING INITIATIVES, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, TRAINING ACTIVITIES AND LEISURE PURSUITS. TO WORK WITH ORGANISATIONS AND PUBLIC SECTOR AGENCIES WHICH PROVIDE SERVICES OF BENEFIT TO PRIMARILY BAMER COMMUNITIES.TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS/FAMILIES TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SICKNESS AND SUPPORT THOSE WHO ARE CARING FOR OR NURSING A PERSON WITH A MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY IN ANY PLACE OTHER THAN AN INSTITUTION OR NURSING HOME AS DEFINED BY THE NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT 1948 AND CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS ACT 1970. TO SUPPORT THOSE WHO MAY BE CHRONICALLY SICK OR DISABLED BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND ADVICE FOR THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CARE.(CARERS)TO ADVISE IN RELATION TO COMMUNITY LEARNING, PREPARE, ORGANISE, CONDUCT AND/OR SUPPORT TRAINING COURSES, EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES OF ALL KINDS.TO WORK WITH ORGANISATIONS AND COMPANIES WHOSE ACTIVITIES MAY FURTHER ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS, OR MAY GENERATE INCOME TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT OF LIVERPOOL AND MORE PARTICULAR WITHIN THE L8 POSTAL DISTRICT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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