Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 9

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
All male board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 5

LIBERTY CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE TRUST

Liberty christian family centre has been running as a Church since 4 June 2000. We also help the misfortunate and under privileged of Thetford and the surrounding areas through operating Thetford Foodbank. Thetford foodbank provides approx 20,000 meals a year to the needy people in our region.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
There are only 3 trustees
The Board is completely male

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: 22 years

www.libertycentre.org.uk

hello@libertycentre.org.uk

01842764940

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/05/23		£187	£127	£60	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/05/22		£139	£107	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/05/21		£144	£74	£70	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/05/20		£120	£105	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	80
31/05/19		£88	£89	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	80
31/05/18		£82	£79	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/17		£100	£97	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/16		£106	£76	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/15		£104	£85	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/14		£125	£92	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/13		£133	£100	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/12		£126	£118	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/11		£108	£114	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/10		£109	£124	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/09	*	£112	£114	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/08	*	£109	£104	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/07	*	£84	£77	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/06	*	£130	£78	£53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/05	*	£77	£58	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/05/04	*	£57	£50	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Norfolk, Suffolk,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
60 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
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£11,600	22/09/2023	Emergency Support Grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£5,000	12/10/2022	Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£151,035	30/03/2022	CA advisor FT
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£29,664	16/07/2021 24	Head of Strategic Change and PM, new post 3 dpw for 2 years
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£30,000	07/05/2021	Purchase of a building
CAF - Grant to Liberty Christian Family Centre Trust
£3,800	21/04/2020 3	Grant to Liberty Christian Family Centre Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£2,799	01/04/2020	CV emergency costs: warehouse costs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£6,138	31/01/2019 24	New Foodbank Development Officer
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Thetford Foodbank
£6,138	12/12/2018	New Foodbank Development Officer

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Gender Split

MATTHEW SHEPHERD LOWE

PASTOR PHILIP WILLIAMS BA HONOURS

TONY ALAN GARROD (Chair)

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/02/2002, number: 1090802

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
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; AR09: 27 days late, AR08: 30 days late, AR07: 107 days late, AR06: 17 days late, AR05: 45 days late, AR04: 48 days late,

Main office

Liberty Church
The Hub
Anna Gurney Close
THETFORD
Norfolk
IP24 1TA

Objectives

A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE TRUSTB) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE NORFOLK

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