Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

EASTSIDE COMMUNITY TRUST 

Working with residents and service providers to deliver neighbourhood management in Easton and Lawrence Hill in Bristol to improve the lives of local people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 24 years

www.eastsidecommunitytrust.org.uk

contact@upourstreet.org.uk

01179541409

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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£965£823£142£143£1,148£97814.32910
31/03/22£751£700£51£145£1,006£87815.1110
31/03/21£1,115£626£489£132£955£65912.690
31/03/20£290£291£-1n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/19£248£274£-26n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/18£202£257£-55£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£150£261£-111£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£121£190£-69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£150£206£-56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£145£214£-69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£140£232£-93£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£98£2,868£-2,770£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£173£408£-235£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£2,252£2,197£55£22£3,942£1,0435.780
31/03/09£3,504£3,696£-192£9£3,582£8492.8230
31/03/08£7,686£7,515£171£22£3,774£8411.3370
31/03/07£8,538£8,478£60£14£3,603£7051480
31/03/06£8,219£8,357£-138£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£8,318£7,540£778£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£8,155£5,779£2,376£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 15.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 17.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 14.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 9.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 29 employees
  • 10 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
Quartet Community Foundation£281,181
DCMS£78,000
Tudor Trust£62,000
Co-Op Foundation£54,959
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£12,092 20/03/2024
This is to extend existing UKSPF Community Fund funding, as agreed with Bristol City Council.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£3,960 18/07/2023
Toward replacing the lighting in Easton Community Centre with energy-efficient LED fittings to reduce the centre's carbon emissions, save money and demonstrate best practices for visitors and ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£11,765 03/07/2023
Toward a small community grant programme and for the cost of opening Easton Community Centre on Saturdays over 12 months.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£9,100 11/05/2023
For a staff and board training and development programme during 2023/24 focusing on staff resilience, morale and skills development - and to refresh the strategic delivery plan ready for April 2024.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£3,000 02/05/2023
Half term food and activities for over 900 children and young people at Felix Road Adventure Playground
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£2,500 01/12/2022
Toward the Come Dine with Us project, which provides a fortnightly healthy and nutritious meal for 20-30 'BAME' disabled and older people in the Easton and Lawrence Hill area.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£2,505 15/11/2022
To provide free fortnightly weekend art workshops for Muslim women as part of the warm hub offer at Easton Community Centre, culminating in a painted mural.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£5,000 15/11/2022
Super Supper Club to deliver two community meals per week over the winter for 50-70 people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£4,124 15/11/2022
Monthly free community meal at Easton Community Centre and three half days a week tea and cake in the cafe area.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£5,000 10/11/2022
Weekly 'Felix Nights' sessions for 11-16 years olds at Felix Road Adventure Playground
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 21/10/2022
Support for future resilience
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£22,420 22/09/2022
To open Easton Community Centre for longer hours, and to create a warm, welcoming, informative and free open access space.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£900 14/07/2022
Coaching and mentoring support sessions for the CEO.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Eastside community trust
£9,000 10/06/2022
Felix At Fifty - a celebration of half a century of community play in the heart of Bristol
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£12,841 26/05/2022
Toward activities and events that seek to build stronger communities in the Lawrence Hill and Easton wards.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust
£3,600 06/05/2022
Towards holiday activities for children aged 8-12 in Bristol
Power to Change - Eastside Community Trust (PU)
£8,000 07/02/2022
Grant to Eastside Community Trust (PU)
Quartet Community Foundation - Felix Road Adventure Playground
£5,000 16/12/2021
As requested by the donor towards the cost of Felix Road Adventure Playground project buying specific play equipment for disabled children.
Co-Op Foundation - Felix Road Adventure Playground
£10,000 30/10/2021
Grant to support the group through the financial challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust (A Place of Possibility)
£1,200 20/09/2021
As approved by the High Sheriff towards holiday activities for young people
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£9,400 09/08/2021
5
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust (A Place of Possibility)
£400 06/07/2021
Funding to recycle rain water for the nature schemes at the high use community buildings - Easton Community Centre and Felix Road .
Quartet Community Foundation - Eastside Community Health
£38,106 21/06/2021
23
Toward work the Eastside Community Health project which seeks to build local capacity to provide community education activities that address community health issues, targeting child and adult obesity ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Endowment Fund 2021
£12,402 09/06/2021
9
To support community events to celebrate being able to come back together after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust (A Place of Possibility)
£3,000 17/05/2021
Towards holiday activities for 8-12 year olds during May half term
Quartet Community Foundation - Funding out future - sustainability and growth
£17,809 24/03/2021
11
Towards the CEO and HR and Finance Manager posts to support a community anchor organisation build financial sustainability and resilience. Key milestones to be completed by the end of this grant: (1) ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Food at Felix
£9,800 19/03/2021
9
The funding will be used to provide a daily hot cooked meal after school and at weekends for children and families in a diverse community in Bristol.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Up Our Street
£2,000 13/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Co-Op Foundation - Eastside Community Trust STC Expand application
£9,970 18/12/2020
To help you build on the work and impact from Space to Connect Explore funding, aimed at providing communities with a space to connect
Quartet Community Foundation - Making Easton Community Centre Fossil Free
£5,000 04/08/2020
Toward the cost of replacing a gas boiler in the nursery annex of Easton Community Centre with an electric boiler connected to on-site renewable energy sources.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust (A Place of Possibility)
£3,000 17/07/2020
Towards holiday activities for 8-12 year olds
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£78,000 25/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust (A Place of Possibility)
£4,651 18/06/2020
Toward small capital works to make the group's sites safe to reopen for vulnerable groups and a contribution to books for the mobile library for children.
CAF - Grant to Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management
£7,800 29/05/2020
3
Grant to Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management to support the organisation through COVID19
Quartet Community Foundation - Endowment Fund 2020/21
£10,422 28/05/2020
To extend the group's community hub and food bank during the pandemic.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eastside Community Trust (A Place of Possibility)
£4,950 07/04/2020
To respond to the crisis caused by the impact of Covid-19 by acting as a community hub for Easton and Lawrence Hill.
Quartet Community Foundation - Easton and Lawrence Hill Transformation Project
£25,000 27/01/2020
5
To plan and complete a merger of Up Our Street, Easton Community Centre and Felix Adventure Playground by March 2020 and to successfully launch the new organisation.
Quartet Community Foundation - eddie nuttall
£10,000 15/01/2020
12
To offer additional support to disadvantaged children aged 8-14 in central Bristol through targeted intervention by a part time play worker working out of St Pauls and Felix road adventure playground.
Co-Op Foundation - Felix Road Adventure Playground Association - 2019
£25,000 25/10/2019
Supporting build costs of a community nursery which will generate sustainable income for an adventure playground and community space benefiting children and families.
Quartet Community Foundation - Eaton Community Centre
£5,000 08/10/2019
6
Easton Community Centre in order to continue to offer its vital services in support of the local community of Easton and surrounding areas.
Co-Op Foundation - STC Explore
£9,989 03/10/2019
Creative engagement methods will be used to map the needs of local, diverse communities in Bristol. This will increase the benefit provided by two much loved community spaces, ensuring they are ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Up Our Street
£60,000 12/08/2019
24
over two years towards key salaries at Felix Road adventure playground and community kitchen in Easton, Bristol
Quartet Community Foundation - Easton and Lawrence Hill Transformation Project
£25,000 31/07/2019
5
To support the merger of three East Bristol based groups, Up Our Street, Felix Road Playground and Easton Community Centre.
Quartet Community Foundation - Endowment Fund
£11,434 04/06/2019
12
To enable Up Our Street to deliver the 2019-20 small community grants programme as part of the legacy of Community at Heart.
National Lottery Community Fund - Everyone?s Easton ? connection, care, community
£94,706 28/02/2019
36
This funding will allow the project to increase the number of residents they work with. The project helps local people make a difference in several inner city wards of Bristol, through place-based ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Collaboration - Up Our Street, Easton Community Centre, Felix Road Adventure Playground
£15,000 22/01/2019
5
For Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management, Felix Road Adventure Playground and Easton Community Centre to work together to develop a new model of collaboration, creating a sustainable ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Collaboration exploration - Up Our Street, Easton Community Centre, Felix Road Adventure Playground
£4,980 21/06/2018
2
For the exploration of collaborative work between East Bristol based groups Up Our Street, Easton Community Centre and Felix Road Adventure Playground
Quartet Community Foundation - Endowment Fund 2018
£11,000 20/06/2018
11
Toward the charities small grants programme which aims to improve employment and personal skills of residents in the Barton Hill, Dings, Newtown, Redfield and Lawrence Hill areas.
National Lottery Community Fund - Raising Active Citizens
£9,990 28/02/2018
12
The funding will be used by an organisation that aims to give children and their parents a voice in their community, increase their capacity for action and provide the skills and inspiration to ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Endowment Fund
£11,100 18/05/2017
11
To fund the 2017 round of the Endowment Fund grant which is for the residents of Barton Hill, The Dings, Newtown and parts of Lawrence Hill and Redfield.
Quartet Community Foundation - Endowment Fund 2016
£8,960 23/05/2016
11
To fund the 2016 round of the group's small grant programme which is for the residents of Barton Hill, The Dings, Newtown and parts of Lawrence Hill and Redfield.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-68
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/07/2000, number: 1081691
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/06/2000, number: 04023294
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • Internal risk management 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; AR05: 22 days late, AR04: 17 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FELIX ROAD ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION on 27/04/2021
  • Asset transfer in from EASTON COMMUNITY CENTRE on 27/01/2022
Main office

EASTON COMMUNITY CENTRE
KILBURN STREET
BRISTOL
BS5 6AW

Objectives

Serving the wards of Easton and Lawrence Hill, particularly the neighbourhoods of Easton, Lawrence Hill, Old Market, St Judes, Newtown, Whitehall, Greenbank, Redfield, The Dings and Barton Hill, the Objects for which the charity is established are: 1) Advancement of citizenship and community development through the promotion of civic participation, volunteering, and community capacity building. 2) Provision of community services and facilities with the objective of inspiring agency, connecting people, creating opportunities and improving the condition of life for residents. 3) Specifically provide services and facilities, including an adventure playground, for children and young people: a) of which such children and young people have need by reason of their age or social and economic circumstances; and b) which will improve the conditions of childhood for such children and young people by promoting their health and well-being.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRISTOL , IN PARTICULAR IN EASTON, BARTON HILL, OLD MARKET, ST JUDES, NEWTOWN, WHITEHALL, GREENBANK, REDFIELD, LAWRENCE HILL AND THE DINGS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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