Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

BASINGSTOKE MENCAP SERVICES 

Basingstoke Mencap works for the relief of people with learning disabilities in particular by the provision of help and support for them and their families, dependents and carers.The society also provides or assists in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation for people who have a learning disability.
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:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 23 years

www.basingstokemencap.org.uk

office@basingstokemencap.org.uk

01256423886

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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*£217£196£21n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/22£176£198£-22n/an/an/an/an/a27
31/03/21*£179£138£41n/an/an/an/an/a29
31/03/20£172£178£-6n/an/an/an/an/a29
31/03/19£195£189£6n/an/an/an/an/a33
31/03/18£197£187£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£171£181£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£173£156£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£157£157£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£140£124£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£121£129£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£109£101£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£106£109£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£113£109£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£85£84£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£77£71£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£79£80£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£83£85£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£82£108£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£87£96£-9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
Who works here?
  • 35 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire,

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Power to Change£10,750
National Lottery Community Fund£9,950
DCMS£9,950
Henry Smith Charity£7,500
The Grocers' Charity£4,787
CAF£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - Basingstoke Mencap
£4,787 07/12/2022
to support its Life Skills Programme. The programme will enable people with learning differences to gain skills and knowledge in handling money, keeping safe online, and handling relationships.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 23/09/2022
Basingstoke Mencap 2022-23
National Lottery Community Fund - Greenfingers Community Project
£9,950 27/05/2021
The funding will be used to deliver horticultural activities training and one to one support run open days and events and create a sensory garden for people living with learning disabilities. The ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,950 02/10/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Basingstoke Mencap Services
£3,000 18/06/2020
3
Grant to Basingstoke Mencap Services to support the organisation through COVID19
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Basingstoke Mencap Services
£7,500 11/05/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing support to people with learning disabilities in Basingstoke
Power to Change - Basingstoke Mencap Services Ltd
£10,750 05/07/2019
Grant to Basingstoke Mencap Services Ltd
National Lottery Community Fund - Help our learning disabled community through IT
£6,125 21/02/2019
12
The project aims to provide IT support to people with learning disabilities. The project will train beneficiaries to apply their computer skills to a wide range of IT applications allowing them ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Basingstoke Mencap Services
£15,000 07/09/2017
24
towards two years' running costs of a project providing support to people with learning disabilities in Hampshire
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Basingstoke Mencap Services
£5,000 11/06/2015
towards one year's running costs of a project providing support services for people with learning disabilities in Hampshire
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-59
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/03/2001, number: 1085576
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/12/2000, number: 04134251
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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • 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; AR23: 1 days late, AR21: 1 days late, AR06: 14 days late, AR05: 107 days late, AR04: 23 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE MAY CLUB (A GATEWAY CLUB) on 07/04/2022
  • Asset transfer in from BASINGSTOKE GATEWAY AWARD PROJECT on 13/12/2023
Main office

Basingstoke Mencap Services
The Orchard
White Hart Lane
Basingstoke
Hants
RG21 4AF

Objectives

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THEIR CARERS IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT AND IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF THE BOROUGH OF BASINGSTOKE AND DEANE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT AND BOROUGH OF BASINGSTOKE AND DEANE. PROVIDED THAT, IN CARING OUT THESE CHARITABLE PURPOSES, THE CHARITY WILL SEEK TO CHALLENGE ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION AND INEQUALITY AND GIVE PRIORITY TO WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHOSE FULL PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY IS LIMITED BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE.C) TO BE SO CONSTITUTED AND ADMINISTERED THAT IT IS AT NO TIME (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING ACT 1989) UNDER THE CONTROL OR SUBJECT TO THE INFLUENCE OF A LOCAL AUTHORITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT AND IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF THE BOROUGH OF BASINGSTOKE .AND DEANE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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