Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 5

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 2

EMBRACE WIGAN & LEIGH

To promote the care, welfare, interest, treatment, education and advancement in primarily the Wigan and Leigh area and surrounding districts of people with any form of disability, their families and carers and to provide information, advice, support and personal advocacy.

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
There are only 4 trustees
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Established: 24 years

www.embracewiganandleigh.org.uk

embrace@embracewiganandleigh.org.uk

01942233323

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
28/02/23		£571	£554	£16	£0	£508	£508	11	26	100
28/02/22	*	£503	£529	£-26	£1	£492	£492	11.2	18	100
28/02/21		£586	£494	£93	£1	£518	£509	12.4	23	19
29/02/20		£524	£517	£6	£6	£425	£416	9.6	23	100
28/02/19		£585	£562	£23	£11	£419	£390	8.3	23	100
28/02/18		£544	£560	£-17	£1	£396	£393	8.4	21	0
28/02/17		£470	£442	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/16		£444	£390	£54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/15		£430	£370	£60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/14		£338	£302	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/13		£266	£323	£-57	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/12		£411	£358	£53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/11		£394	£353	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/10		£399	£356	£43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/09		£400	£401	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
29/02/08		£459	£471	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/07		£502	£502	£-1	£60	£169	£117	2.8	18	0
28/02/06		£385	£377	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
28/02/05		£325	£356	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
29/02/04	*	£294	£296	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 11 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 8.6

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Lancashire, Wigan,

Who it helps

People With Disabilities

Who works here?

26 employees
100 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Let's Connect Plus
£180,000	27/05/2022	Funding for the group will enable them to continue to support disabled people to reduce loneliness and gain skills and work experience through group activities and the creation of a Community Hub. ....more Funding for the group will enable them to continue to support disabled people to reduce loneliness and gain skills and work experience through group activities and the creation of a Community Hub. The project aims to offer a full range of activities including work experience opportunities.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Embrace Wigan and Leigh
£843	23/10/2021	We aim to help people with learning disabilities find friendship, love and companionship through our dating agency ‘All We Need is Love’.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Embrace Wigan & Leigh
£6,360	08/05/2018 36	This project will deliver evening activity sessions to disabled young people in Wigan. Young people will have the opportunity to meet friends, have fun, have a greater understanding of safety and ....more This project will deliver evening activity sessions to disabled young people in Wigan. Young people will have the opportunity to meet friends, have fun, have a greater understanding of safety and feel more independent.
Department for Education - Parent Carer Forum Grants (Paid To Multiple Local Parent Carer Forums)
£3,319	01/04/2018	152 parent carer forums (one per LA)
Department for Education - Parent Carer Forum Grants (Paid To Multiple Local Parent Carer Forums)
£6,009	01/04/2018	152 parent carer forums (one per LA)
Department for Education - Parent Carer Forum Grants (Paid To Multiple Local Parent Carer Forums)
£7,495	01/04/2018	152 parent carer forums (one per LA)
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Embrace Wigan & Leigh
£113,672	02/03/2018 36	This project will deliver support to children with ADHD, ASD, Pathological Demand Avoidance and Oppositional Defiance Disorder and their families, pre and post diagnosis. Outcomes are improved ....more This project will deliver support to children with ADHD, ASD, Pathological Demand Avoidance and Oppositional Defiance Disorder and their families, pre and post diagnosis. Outcomes are improved emotional wellbeing, self-belief and stronger relationships.
National Lottery Community Fund - Disability Equality and Awareness Training
£10,000	22/03/2017 12	The funding will be used by a charity to develop a Disabilities Equality and Awareness Training project, run by people with disabilities and their family members. The project aims to support people ....more The funding will be used by a charity to develop a Disabilities Equality and Awareness Training project, run by people with disabilities and their family members. The project aims to support people with disabilities with employment and training skills and provide a user led project to tackle disability discrimination and raise awareness within schools and community settings across the local area.
National Lottery Community Fund - Let's Connect
£318,638	27/07/2016 60	The group will use the funding for a project that will help vulnerable adults living in Wigan, who have become disconnected from their local community due to disability, age or personal ....more The group will use the funding for a project that will help vulnerable adults living in Wigan, who have become disconnected from their local community due to disability, age or personal circumstances, become better connected and involved with their local community. It is hoped the project will help to reduce social isolation and loneliness.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Embrace Wigan and Leigh
£20,000	25/10/2013	Embrace is a user led organisation which provides support via a wide range of services to people with disabilities and their carers

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 58-64

ANDREW TAYLOR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Development Manager

JOANNE BARROW (Chair) Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Charity Worker

MICHAEL CHARLES HASSALL Appointed: 2022

SHEILA MARIE ROBINSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired Local Government Officer

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/09/2000, number: 1082663
Registered at Companies House on 25/02/2000, number: 03936727

Gift Aid

NOT 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
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR22: 211 days late, AR04: 22 days late,

Main office

Embrace Wigan & Leigh
81 Ribble Road
Platt Bridge
WIGAN
Lancashire
WN2 5EG

Objectives

The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit: • The relief of those in need because of disability or physical or mental ill-health, including (but not limited to) by the provision of support, advice and information to persons experiencing disability or ill-health and their families and carers; and• The promotion of social inclusion by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ includes being excluded from society, or parts of society, because of one of more of the following factors: disability, old age, ill health (physical or mental), financial hardship, discrimination or relationship or family breakdown.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WIGAN & LEIGH (OR IN THE EVENT OF ANY LOCAL GOVERNMENT RE-ORGANISAION IN AN EQUIVALENT AREA)

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