Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +11

NOAH'S ARK CENTRE 

To improve the social conditions and emotional wellbeing of persons in Calderdale through the provision of counselling, peer support, training, work / volunteering opportunities and debt & budgeting advice.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 23 years

www.noahsarkcentre.org.uk

office@noahsarkcentre.org.uk

01422 366911

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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
30/09/22£524£472£53£0£420£1032.6835
30/09/21£445£444£1n/an/an/an/an/a40
30/09/20£441£405£36n/an/an/an/an/a50
30/09/19*£378£286£91n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/09/18£190£245£-55£0£0£0n/a070
30/09/17£311£320£-9£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/16£363£337£26£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/15£194£203£-9£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/14£247£155£92£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/13£117£129£-12£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/12£126£116£11£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/11£146£164£-19£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/10£148£178£-30£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/09£181£132£49£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/08*£181£133£49£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/07£129£108£22£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/06£94£111£-17£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/05£123£96£27£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/04£119£114£4£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 25%
Reserves/Spending: 2.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 31.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 8 employees
  • 35 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Calderdale,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£478,997
Community Foundation for Calderdale£180,359
Henry Smith Charity£121,200
DCMS£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Money Advice Service
£60,000 08/12/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Carpet Recycling: Turning Houses into Homes
£5,400 05/12/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Money Advice Service
£5,525 06/11/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Defibrillator
£500 31/10/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Making Houses Into Homes
£10,000 31/10/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Money Advice Service
£10,000 23/10/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£19,602 03/10/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Counselling & Pyschotherapy Service
£10,000 30/03/2023
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£18,000 16/12/2022
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£3,500 30/11/2022
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£121,200 22/09/2022
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towards three years' continuation funding of a counselling project for people who have experienced child sexual abuse, sexual violence or domestic violence in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
National Lottery Community Fund - Noah's Ark Money Advice Service
£261,518 19/08/2022
The funding will help to continue to support people in Calderdale living in financial hardship and crisis through their Money Advice Service. The aim is to improve the social conditions and emotional ....more
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Give a Man a Fish and You'll Feed Him For a Day....
£5,000 08/07/2022
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£5,000 01/07/2022
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark DRO Small Pot
£2,500 12/05/2022
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£6,970 09/12/2021
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Money Advice Service
£2,862 16/11/2021
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Money Advice Service
£5,000 26/05/2021
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Noah's Ark Food Support & Advice Hub
£1,500 12/02/2021
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Therapeutic Interventions - Strengthening Resilience in Challenging Times
£5,000 12/02/2021
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Community Foundation for Calderdale - Never Hungry Again
£4,000 19/01/2021
Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
Tudor Trust - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£2,000 05/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 22/07/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Noah's Ark Money Advice Service
£217,479 19/07/2019
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The funding will help the organisation reach more people in nearby neighbourhoods, providing mental and emotional wellbeing support through counselling, psychotherapy, advice services.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£90,000 21/03/2019
36
over three years towards the core costs of an organaistion providing counselling support and money advice to people in Halifax
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Noah's Ark Centre
£116,100 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' running costs, including the salary a Project Coordinator, of a project providing counselling for people who have experienced child sexual abuse, sexual violence or domestic ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Noahs Ark Youth Counselling Service
£152,741 12/05/2010
36
This project will extend the organisation's counselling service to include a provision for young people in Ovenden, North Halifax and surrounding areas. A range of issues that young people can face ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 60-71
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/08/2001, number: 1088063
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/09/2000, number: 04077381
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR19: 60 days late, AR08: 33 days late,
Main office

Noahs Ark Centre
322-326 Ovenden Road
HALIFAX
HX3 5TJ

Objectives

(1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTH HALIFAX AND SURROUNDING AREAS, IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PERSONS, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.(2) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A COMMUNITY CENTRE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH HALIFAX AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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