Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

HARTCLIFFE AND WITHYWOOD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP 

HWCP works across communities on the southern edge of Bristol, including some with very high levels of multiple deprivations. HWCP is moving forward with a vision of a community and ethical business hub - @symes Community Building, which has rooms for hire, the local public library and runs direct services for local people including community transport.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 gender
Established: 22 years

www.hwcp.org.uk

RECEPTION@hwcp.org.uk

01179038044

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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£602£562£39£26£710£52911.3118
31/03/22£653£520£133£27£671£52212124
31/03/21£518£495£23£30£538£46911.4124
31/03/20£577£494£83£26£515£3668.9137
31/03/19£525£463£62£25£432£3448.9159
31/03/18£442£409£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£413£416£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£470£478£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£418£445£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£483£475£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£438£445£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£454£484£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£485£461£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£708£637£72£12£321£1262.4120
31/03/09£608£619£-12£2£249£1583.1120
31/03/08£438£801£-363£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£1,278£827£451£7£623£1502.2110
31/03/06£629£585£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£641£534£107£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£261£304£-43£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 74%
Reserves/Spending: 11.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 13 months
Quick Ratio: 9.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
  • 8 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
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership
£1,200 02/05/2023
Working in an area of high deprivation we are one of the great organisations that the community rely on to provide holiday activities for young people in the area.
Quartet Community Foundation - Place Based Change - Building Children & Young People’s Aspirations Year 3
£60,000 21/09/2021
11
Place Based Change - Building Children & Young People’s Aspirations, community building and activities for young people and targeted work with children at risk of persistent absence
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership
£300 21/09/2021
As approved by the High Sheriff towards holiday activities for young people
Quartet Community Foundation - Performing Harts
£4,975 15/06/2021
5
For a free weekly Youth Theatre for vulnerable young people aged 8-12 living in Hartcliffe and Withywood.
Quartet Community Foundation - Garden Gurus
£5,000 04/05/2021
12
For a sustainable and environmentally friendly community gardening and ecology project, which is open to all residents living in a set of flats in the Hartcliffe area.
Quartet Community Foundation - External Consultant
£15,360 24/03/2021
11
For Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership to strengthen its governance, and build capacity, confidence and resilience to effectively deliver its business plan. Key milestones to be ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Place Based Change - Building Children & Young People’s Aspirations
£60,000 20/10/2020
Developing and coordinating, in partnership with other local organisations, a set of community led youth service activities in the Hartcliffe area that aim to raise the aspirations of young people ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership
£15,000 24/09/2020
Towards (1) the services of an architect, (2) consultancy support for a review of community transport services and community need, and (3) continuing existing consultancy support.
DCMS - Place based Social Action
£39,944 01/04/2020
Plans are for groups of residents and partners to work together to deliver an action plan to promote shared values of tolerance, respect and democracy. There will be a buddying scheme where new ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - External Consultant
£14,900 20/02/2020
7
To build on the organisational review in order to strengthen governance, and build capacity, confidence and resilience to effectively deliver a business plan.
Quartet Community Foundation - HWCP Business Review
£10,000 24/10/2019
2
To undertake an organisational review in order to strengthen governance, build capacity, confidence and resilience to effectively deliver a business plan.
DCMS - Place based Social Action
£39,944 01/04/2019
Plans are for groups of residents and partners to work together to deliver an action plan to promote shared values of tolerance, respect and democracy. There will be a buddying scheme where new ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Hareclive Place Based Social Action Transition Programme
£59,987 29/03/2019
15
Toward the cost of developing and coordinating, in partnership with other local organisations, a set of community led youth service activities in the Hartcliffe area that aim to raise the aspirations ....more
DCMS - Place based Social Action
£39,944 01/03/2019
Plans are for groups of residents and partners to work together to deliver an action plan to promote shared values of tolerance, respect and democracy. There will be a buddying scheme where new ....more
DCMS - Place based Social Action
£29,958 01/03/2019
Plans are for groups of residents and partners to work together to deliver an action plan to promote shared values of tolerance, respect and democracy. There will be a buddying scheme where new ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Hartcliffe and Withywood Way
£119,830 13/02/2019
36
The Hartcliffe and Withywood Way
Garfield Weston Foundation - WAF award
£45,000 05/10/2018
New CATT bus.
Quartet Community Foundation - Step Change for Hartcliffe and Withywood
£24,968 27/06/2018
12
Toward eleven streams of organisational development work aimed at enabling the organisation to make a shift in the way they are funded and also involving work to step up the way that they mobilise ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Community Energy in Hartcliffe and Withywood
£5,400 27/06/2018
12
Toward the cost of undertaking an energy audit at the @Symes Community Centre, initial feasibility work to explore the possibility of installing solar panels, and to train 5 individuals to provide ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Youth Coordination, voice and influence
£9,930 03/05/2018
11
To employ an experienced worker to coordinate youth work in the area, building a programme of activities and support with them.
Quartet Community Foundation - Youth outreach
£4,973 03/01/2018
5
Toward a targeted piece of youth outreach work to assist in tackling anti-social behaviour in the Hartcliffe area.
Power to Change - Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership
£15,000 30/11/2017
36
Grant to Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership
£3,900 13/09/2017
Symes District Heritage Project
Quartet Community Foundation - Sustaining HWCP's Community Work
£20,000 30/05/2017
12
To retain the Community Partnership Officer, to keep the community partnership, outreach, communications and volunteering programme going, and toward strategic planning to enable the group to develop ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Community Communications and Skills
£3,000 22/03/2017
11
Toward the cost of communications work to make sure people in Hartcliffe and Withywood have the regular, up to date information they need to access essential services and participate in their ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 52-80
  • KAREN RICHARDS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Community Champion - Morrison'S
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/07/2002, number: 1092914
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/02/2001, number: 04167878
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 21 days late, AR04: 37 days late,
Main office

Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership
Symes District Centre
Peterson Avenue
BRISTOL
BS13 0BE

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE:A. THE PROMOTION OF URBAN REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE CITY OF BRISTOL, AND IN PARTICULAR THE AREAS OF HARTCLIFFE AND WITHYWOOD, BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS AND SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES: I.THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT;II.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING THROUGH TRAINING OR RETRAINING, AND PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOLUNTEERING. III.THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS AND /OR LAND FOR THESE PURPOSES; IV.TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT FACILITIES IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION AND IN PARTICULAR IN HARTCLIFFE AND WITHYWOOD, FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE ELDERLY, POOR OR DISABLED, HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN, OR LIVE IN AREAS WHERE THERE ARE NO ADEQUATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT FACILITIES.V.THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND /OR THOSE WHO, BY REASONS OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES; VI.THE PROTECTION OR CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT; VII.THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES AND CHILDCARE; VIII.THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND PREVENTION OF CRIME; B. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN THE CITY OF BRISTOL, AND ESPECIALLY IN HARTCLIFFE AND WITHYWOOD IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETYC. THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION IN THE CITY OF BRISTOL, IN PARTICULAR THE AREAS OF HARTCLIFFE AND WITHYWOOD.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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