Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

LIVERPOOL LIGHTHOUSE LIMITED 

Liverpool Lighthouse Limited, based in Anfield Liverpool, is becoming a nationally recognised Urban Gospel Arts Centre.We also demonstrate the Christian faith through practical help to those most vulnerable in the community, including homeless people, children, young people, excluded groups and the elderly.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
Established: 25 years

www.liverpoollighthouse.com

info@liverpoollighthouse.com

01514762342

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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£624£644£-20£0£894£82315.3215
31/03/22*£546£558£-12£0£914£84318.1205
31/03/21£416£376£40n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£423£411£12n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/19£619£401£219£11£874£87426.22840
31/03/18£370£368£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£338£337£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£352£341£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£389£385£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£328£311£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£659£653£6£9£622£59911230
31/03/12*£774£768£7£9£616£5638.8430
31/03/11*£725£722£2£6£609£5449320
31/03/10£786£786£0£6£607£5879530
31/03/09£763£799£-36£5£607£6079.1450
31/03/08£649£672£-24£4£643£64311.5450
31/03/07*£575£571£4£5£630£63013.2450
31/03/06*£575£570£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£587£554£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£643£520£123£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: 31%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 15.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, Wirral,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 21 employees
  • 5 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
Henry Smith Charity£443,400
Comic Relief£249,565
National Lottery Community Fund£193,404
DCMS£116,272
Youth Music£29,582
John Moores Foundation£18,000
Sport England£7,400
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Young Creative Lighthouse - Holiday Club
£3,250 06/07/2023
To run a 4 week holiday club for young people aged 6-16. There will be 2 additional groups, a week programme for 14-18 year olds focused on theatre, and a 2 week programme for 11-18 year olds themed ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Liverpool Lighthouse Ltd
£210,000 11/05/2023
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation providing a community art space for people from disadvantaged communities in Liverpool, Merseyside.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Liverpool Youth Gospel Choir - Summer Intensive
£1,000 17/04/2023
To integrate gospel and black communities' music into high schools and to launch a Liverpool Youth Gospel Choir.
National Lottery Community Fund - Liverpool Lighthouse Eurovision Party
£4,330 28/03/2023
The funding will be used to host a Eurovision Party celebration event on May 8th 2023 (the bank holiday before Eurovision week) that will engage participants and audiences from across Liverpool's ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Liverpool Lighthouse
£18,000 09/02/2023
Towards Liverpool Lighthouse Food Programme
Comic Relief - Creative Connect
£249,565 25/01/2022
30
Building on our extensive experience co-creating effective, arts-based wellbeing projects in the community with groups experiencing mild or moderate mental health challenges, this project will use ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Moving On Up
£179,074 17/09/2021
Liverpool Lighthouse is based in Anfield North Liverpool and they aim to reduce social isolation help people develop skills to enable them to achieve improve community cohesion and improve access to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Anfield Community Cinema
£10,000 29/04/2021
The funding will be used to install a cinema-quality AV system into the community hub. The project aims to bring people of all ages back together after Covid 19 and reduce social isolation through ....more
Youth Music - Lighthouse Harbour Project
£29,582 26/04/2021
Lighthouse Harbour Project
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Liverpool Lighthouse Ltd
£70,000 23/10/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of a community arts centre for disadvantaged people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Liverpool.
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£35,000 23/10/2020
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
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£7,400 26/05/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
DCMS - Liverpool Lighthouse - Back on Track
£81,272 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Liverpool Lighthouse
£163,400 11/09/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a community arts centre in Liverpool
Youth Music - LSP 4T7-2
£29,974 21/11/2018
LSP 4T7-2
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Liverpool Lighthouse
£10,000 01/06/2018
Towards the salary of the Project Co-ordinator and facilitators' costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Lighthouse Promotions
£9,915 03/05/2018
12
A community centre, which hosts arts projects and events, will renovate the exterior of the hall and improve the signage, to inform the community of what happens there and to make it more visually ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 13/07/2017
Raise The Roof
Youth Music - LSP-4T7
£29,826 21/07/2016
LSP-4T7
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Connect
£473,889 14/11/2014
60
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Liverpool Lighthouse
£30,000 29/01/2014
An urban gospel music and arts centre, engaging, inspiring and up-skilling disaffected groups, and contributing to the regeneration of North Liverpool in particular through education, training 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: 36-69
  • HELEN HAWLEY Appointed: 1998, Occupation: Cardiac Clinical Scientific Of
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/09/1999, number: 1077293
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/12/1998, number: 03689784
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
  • Investment
  • 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; AR22: 57 days late, AR12: 30 days late, AR11: 53 days late, AR07: 29 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR05: 18 days late, AR04: 110 days late,
Main office

LIVERPOOL LIGHTHOUSE
OAKFIELD ROAD
WALTON
LIVERPOOL
L4 0UF

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL AND IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO: 1. ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING INCLUDING EDUCATION THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA, ARTS, CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT; 2. ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND THE PROPAGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL BY DEMONSTRATING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH PRACTICAL HELP TO THOSE MOST VULNERABLE IN THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS, CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, THE SICK AND ELDERLY; 3 ASSISTING PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE WITH THE OBJECT OF ENABLING SUCH PEOPLE OBTAIN GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; 2. ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND THE PROPAGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL BY DEMONSTRATING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH PRACTICAL HELP TO THOSE MOST VULNERABLE IN THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS, CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, THE SICK AND ELDERLY; 3 ASSISTING PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE WITH THE OBJECT OF ENABLING SUCH PEOPLE OBTAIN GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE: 4. TO CREATE, PROVIDE, IMPROVE, MAINTAIN, AND OWN OPEN SPACES, WOODLANDS AND FORESTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO BE USED AS AREAS OF FORMAL RECREATION, EDUCATION, PLAY, SPORT OR OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AND FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECT AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LIVERPOOL

Data Sources

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