Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

BRIGHTON & HOVE COMMUNITY WORKS 

Develop and strengthen community groups and voluntary organisations to survive and thrive.Build a strong, vibrant base for volunteering and voluntary activity.Promote and support influential and effective partnerships amongst our stakeholders.Develop our organisation to be effective and sustainable.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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
  • This charity only provides its support via other charities

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 23 years

www.bhcommunityworks.org.uk

ceo@bhcommunityworks.org.uk

01273234023

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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£888£925£-37£13£247£2473.21771
31/03/22£904£906£-2£8£284£2843.81891
31/03/21£867£879£-12£8£286£2863.92080
31/03/20£1,294£1,347£-53£9£297£2972.620179
31/03/19£1,223£1,179£44£7£350£3503.61585
31/03/18£1,675£1,603£72£12£306£3062.3150
31/03/17£650£625£24£10£233£2324.5140
31/03/16£570£556£14£12£209£2094.5110
31/03/15£706£655£51£22£235£1953.6160
31/03/14£750£714£36£15£184£1472.5170
31/03/13*£719£708£11£17£149£1282.2150
31/03/12£441£433£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£529£558£-29£11£129£1232.7100
31/03/10£424£398£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£407£354£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£365£362£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£304£276£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£418£429£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£234£211£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£261£268£-7£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 71%
Liabilities/Income: 70%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Who works here?
  • 17 employees
  • 71 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
DCMS£54,938
National Lottery Community Fund£48,648
Sussex Community Foundation£24,950
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Worthing and Adur Food Partnership 2#
£48,648 15/03/2021
11
This group will continue bringing together all of the local organisations working in the area of food poverty education and action to create shared objectives and to improve referral routes and ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton & Hove Community Works
£5,000 21/09/2020
Community Works work with charities, community groups, volunteers and businesses in Brighton, Hove, Adur and Worthing, so they can make society and local areas better. Funding will help develop the ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton & Hove Community Works
£4,950 28/07/2020
This funding will ensure the City’s Coronavirus Help Directory thrives and develops over the next six months, providing a single destination where vulnerable people and their friends, family and ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,950 27/07/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,988 18/06/2020
"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
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton & Hove Community Works
£5,000 06/04/2020
Funding to create a new unified Digital Hub that will capture, facilitate and coordinate Brighton’s response to the Covid 19 situation. This will provide to up to date vital information, including ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton & Hove Community Works
£10,000 27/03/2020
11
Funding was provided towards a Mentoring Programme to support leaders in member organisations to achieve their strategic plans/goals.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton & Hove Community Works
£4,980 14/07/2017
11
Brighton & Hove Community Works connect charities, volunteers and business in Brighton & Hove, Adur & Worthing, so they can improve people's lives and the local area. Funding was provided ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CtoC/1/6 - Routes
£213,571 04/07/2016
36
This project aims to provide intensive one to one support into employment, volunteering and training for the hardest to reach. This will include marginalised and excluded, unemployed and economically ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CtoC 1/6 - Employability Works
£50,000 06/11/2015
12
This grant will be used to develop plans for a project to provide intensive one-to-one support to unemployed people to help them into employment, volunteering and training. The development funding ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/07/2001, number: 1087481
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/12/1999, number: 03895635
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
  • Internal risk management 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR13: 85 days late, AR11: 15 days late,
Main office

Community Works
Community Base
113 Queens Road
BRIGHTON
BN1 3XG

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND ITS ENVIRONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.2. TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRIGHTON AND HOVE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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