Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

EMMAUS BOLTON 

Provision of accommodation and work to previously homeless people.Social furniture schemeRecycling facilities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 24 years

www.emmaus-bolton.org.uk

info@emmausbolton.org.uk

01204398056

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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
30/06/23£640£646£-6£307£559£5099.4935
30/06/22£498£586£-87n/an/an/an/an/a28
30/06/21£459£480£-21n/an/an/an/an/a26
30/06/20£459£509£-50n/an/an/an/an/a30
30/06/19£439£497£-58n/an/an/an/an/a30
30/06/18£479£420£59£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£418£390£28£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£390£342£48£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£314£300£14£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£279£256£23£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£218£267£-48£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£217£281£-64£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£295£243£51£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£200£241£-41£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£215£239£-24£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£226£188£38£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£247£162£84£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£329£121£208£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£53£69£-16£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£367£16£351£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 48.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 47.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 9.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 9 employees
  • 35 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton,

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£69,850
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£33,670
The Clothworkers Foundation£17,600
Bolton CVS£15,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£8,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£645 20/02/2023
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Bolton CVS - Grant to EMMAUS BOLTON
£15,000 01/12/2021
To set up a facility sorting, recycling and up-cycling clothing and other textiles
National Lottery Community Fund - Emmaus Bolton Covid-19 Response
£69,850 18/06/2020
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The charity aims to support vulnerable men who were formerly homeless by providing them a home and job opportunities in the group’s social enterprise. Funding for the organisation will go towards ....more
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£33,670 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to EMMAUS BOLTON
£2,600 06/05/2020
COVID19 : purchase freezer for a chraity that works with homeless communities in Lancashire
Forever Manchester - LUCIE'S PANTRY
£3,000 01/05/2020
Emergency food supplies
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£8,000 29/11/2019
Purchase of two replacement Ford Transit Luton 3.5 tonne box-body vehicles
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to EMMAUS BOLTON
£15,000 25/07/2019
purchase of a delivery vehicle for a charity which works with homeless people in Bolton, Greater Manchester
National Lottery Community Fund - Lucie?s Pantry (Emmaus Bolton)
£9,450 24/01/2019
12
The project aims to provide affordable food and household essentials to improve the lives of people struggling to make ends meet through debt, illness or low income. The funding will be used to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Emmaus Bolton
£30,000 27/09/2013
Emmaus Bolton provides supportive accommodation, training & life skills to people at risk of homelessness
National Lottery Community Fund - Emmaus Bolton - Purchase And Refurbishment of 'The Cottages'
£50,000 08/09/2010
12
This project in Bolton will purchase and refurbish a building, the 'Cottages', and associated land for conversion into a halfway house/move-on accommodation to expand a furniture recycling social ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-82
  • CONOR KELLY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Client Account Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/04/2000, number: 1080391
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/02/2000, number: 03924322
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
  • 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; all on time
Main office

Emmaus
Derby Barracks
Fletcher Street
BOLTON
BL3 6NF

Objectives

THE ALLEVIATION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM TO THOSE IN NEED WITHOUT DISTINCTION

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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