Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +6

    READING COMMUNITY WELFARE RIGHTS UNIT 

    Specialist Advice on Welfare Benefits.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    Established: 25 years

    http://readingspecialist.co.uk/

    advisor@readingspecialist.co.uk

    01189551070

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    UN SDGs
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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*£140£132£8n/an/an/an/an/a5
    31/03/22£136£139£-4n/an/an/an/an/a5
    31/03/21£130£120£10n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/20£117£95£22n/an/an/an/an/a1
    31/03/19£95£94£1n/an/an/an/an/a1
    31/03/18£161£175£-15£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£233£281£-48£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£305£287£18£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15*£300£322£-22£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£262£276£-14£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£282£326£-43£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£356£374£-17£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£504£409£95£9£146£1464.390
    31/03/10£506£468£38£2£52£521.3110
    31/03/09£459£422£37£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£370£379£-9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07*£397£417£-20£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06£375£339£36£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£367£406£-39£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£323£364£-42£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    What it does
    • Disability
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    Who works here?
    • 5 volunteers
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    Where it operates
    • Reading, West Berkshire, Wokingham,

    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
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Reading Welfare Rights
    £105,400 06/12/2022
    36
    towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing financial welfare advocacy support for communities experiencing disadvantage in Reading, Berkshire.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Reading Community Welfare Rights Volunteer Team
    £249,944 01/07/2019
    71
    The organisation, which provides a specialist advice service to all sectors of the local community in relation to all welfare benefits, will use funding to hire a Welfare Rights Manager. This person ....more

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (8)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees: 53-77
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/03/1999, number: 1074557
    • Registered at Companies House on 03/09/1998, number: 03626105
    Gift Aid
    • 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
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    20 returns made; AR23: 12 days late, AR15: 108 days late, AR07: 28 days late,
    Main office

    135 Cardiff Road
    Reading
    RG1 8JF

    Objectives

    1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS2) THE PROMOTION OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POPULATION OF GREATER READING

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    GREATER READING

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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