Overall GiG Score: -4 ?
Finance Score: -9
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 5
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

BERINSFIELD INFORMATION AND VOLUNTEER CENTRE 

Village Information and Advice Centre for advice,training,debt and money advice,advocacy,internet , legal, benefits, form filling , literacy support, village magazine, craft workshop,hospital transport, housing related problems
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 24 years

www.bivc.org.uk

caroline@bivc.org.uk

01865343044

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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
31/03/22£46£53£-7n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/21*£44£37£7n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20*£37£42£-5n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/19£43£47£-4n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/18£44£34£10£0£0£0n/a027
31/03/17£33£30£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£38£32£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£42£41£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£42£35£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£16£25£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£28£21£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£14£20£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£14£14£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£15£16£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£22£14£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£15£13£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£15£13£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£13£13£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£12£13£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 7 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Oxfordshire,

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
DCMS£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,196
Oxfordshire Community Foundation£5,000
The Foyle Foundation£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Berinsfield Community Action
£9,196 19/08/2022
The funding will be used for the running costs for this information and volunteer centre that serves communities in South Oxfordshire. The project aims to continue to provide rural communities with ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£4,000 03/12/2021
towards running costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 20/07/2020
"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
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - COVID19
£5,000 26/05/2020
8
Advice & support - providing advice and help via telephone and email. Also shopping and delivery of food and medication.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Berinsfield Information And Volunteer Centre
£6,341 20/02/2019
12
This grant will help towards staff funding costs to allow the services to keep up and running. We are also starting a transport car scheme to enable those without transport or other resources to get ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/09/2000, number: 1082301
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR21: 56 days late, AR20: 187 days late, AR10: 712 days late, AR09: 14 days late,
Main office

BERINSFIELD INFORMATION & VOLUNTEER
CENTRE
39 FANE DRIVE
BERINSFIELD
WALLINGFORD
OX10 7NE

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF BERINSFIELD, OXFORDSHIRE, AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH, AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS

Defined Area of Benefit:

BERINSFIELD, OXFORDSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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