Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 7
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

BIRMINGHAM IRISH ASSOCIATION 

Birmingham Irish Association enhances the lives of thousands of people throughout Birmingham by providing quality advice and support services. BIA provides help with health issues, family support, tackling social isolation, bereavement, befriending and to promote Irish culture and heritage
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

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£652£774£-123£9£723£2824.42049
31/03/22£683£717£-35£2£869£3195.32140
31/03/21£1,040£692£348£2£904£3646.31835
31/03/20£619£500£119£7£556£3538.51422
31/03/19£489£406£82n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/18£463£391£72£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£355£421£-66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£421£537£-115£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£513£592£-79£41£464£3657.4210
31/03/14£629£631£-2£37£543£3987.6210
31/03/13£636£712£-76£35£544£4367.3220
31/03/12£760£774£-14£74£620£4767.4230
31/03/11£983£903£80£28£634£4325.7280
31/03/10£861£860£1£42£562£3715.2270
31/03/09£866£840£26£48£562£3785.4270
31/03/08£843£857£-14£53£536£3294.6260
31/03/07*£721£805£-85£48£550£2013260
31/03/06£690£572£118£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£671£579£91£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£621£507£113£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 39%
Reserves/Spending: 4.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 28.6
Asset Split ?
Established: 26 years

www.birish.org.uk

info@birish.org.uk

01216046111

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for the elderly
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
  • 49 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£131,222
DCMS£60,989
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
BBC Children in Need£4,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Warm Welcome Hub
£10,000 24/02/2023
The funding will be used to turn the top part of the Birmingham Irish Association building from a homeless shelter which is being relocated into a Warm Welcome hub facility. The WWH will provide a ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Irish in Birmingham
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - New horizons - supporting marginalised young people get into digital media
£9,990 30/09/2021
The funding will be used to support 16 young people aged 16 – 24 who are not in education employment or training or working within the travelling community with a digital media and broadcasting ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Irish in Birmingham
£50,000 02/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Irish in Birmingham, awarded under the Foundation's Racial Equity funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£56,489 02/12/2020
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 Irish in Birmingham
£4,500 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant is for an online forum, activities and resources for children effected by a family member having dementia who have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim is to improve ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 community support
£91,232 04/06/2020
7
This funding will enable the group to support more vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis. It will expand its community food bank and set up a prescription collection service for people with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Support during Covid-19
£10,000 22/05/2020
11
The funding will be used to provide essential items and support to older people. The project aims to support the community through the COVID-19 pandemic.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,500 21/05/2020
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
National Lottery Community Fund - Silver Surfers
£10,000 22/04/2020
4
The funding will be used to run IT skills sessions for older people. The project aims to bring participants together to learn new skills and help them to be able to communicate with family and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Dementia Care Project
£348,260 22/03/2019
36
This project will help the organisation to continue to provide quality and responsive services that improve wellbeing and quality of life for the Irish community. Volunteers will use their skills to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sustainable supported volunteers
£9,950 07/12/2018
12
This funding will be used to meet salary costs to improve volunteer opportunities and coordination within the Irish community.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Irish in Birmingham
£29,880 22/11/2018
36
This project is a youth club working with children who are affected by a family member having dementia. The project aims to help the children to reduce anxiety and manage their feelings, increase ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Irish in Birmingham
£18,750 25/07/2018
12
This Birmingham based charity will bring in a consultant to help them produce a funding strategy and train up staff with skills to identify and make applications to support their work with the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Emerald Heart' cafe - dementia support in the community
£9,799 28/06/2017
12
This funding will be used to expand the group’s dementia support activities into new areas across the city, improving more people’s wellbeing.
Birmingham City Council - Rosita
£12,598 01/01/2017
ROSITA; Health and wellbeing; Adult Social Care & Health Third Sector Grants - Day Opportunities
Birmingham City Council - Rosita
£25,196 01/07/2016
ROSITA; Health and wellbeing; Adult Social Care & Health Third Sector Grants - Day Opportunities
Birmingham City Council - Reducing Social Isolation Through Activi
£12,598 01/04/2016
REDUCING SOCIAL ISOLATION THROUGH ACTIVI; Health and wellbeing; Adult Social Care & Health Third Sector Grants - Day Opportunities
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Birmingham Irish Association
£52,600 23/10/2015
We Built This City
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Irish in Birmingham
£35,000 29/03/2011
the salary costs of the CEO including NI and pension
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 56-70
  • TERESA LYNK Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Semi Retired Teacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/11/1998, number: 1072258
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/09/1998, number: 03628076
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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; AR07: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from BIRMINGHAM IRISH SOCIETY on 20/03/2023
Main office

BIRMINGHAM IRISH ASSOCIATION
45 ALCESTER STREET
DERITEND
BIRMINGHAM
B12 0PY

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO ARE IRISH OR WHO ARE OF IRISH DESCENT. IN PARTICULAR, TO ADVANCE RELIGION, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, RELIEVE SICKNESS AND OLD AGE, PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

BIRMINGHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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