Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 13

LINWOOD COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE LTD

We are a group of volunteers who have taking over the running of the local community centre on a estate in Corby which has 10% deprevation. In side the facility we have a Community Cafe, SureStart Childrens Centre, Youth Club a large sports hall which we hire out the facilty for different activities such as football, Table Tennis, Karate and many more.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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 including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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		£233	£152	£81	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/22	*	£127	£103	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/21		£119	£94	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20		£148	£105	£43	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£149	£102	£47	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£125	£86	£40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£147	£104	£43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£444	£569	£-125	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£408	£449	£-41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£437	£488	£-51	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£430	£486	£-56	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£562	£481	£81	£458	£348	£19	0.5	6	0
31/03/11	*	£512	£525	£-13	£491	£267	£36	0.8	5	0
31/03/10	*	£367	£406	£-39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09?	*	£385	£325	£60	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£38	£36	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£42	£44	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 20 years

01536396369

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Other facilities management and maintenance

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Northamptonshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 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
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Community Cafe Coffee Machine
£3,000	13/03/2024 2	Community Cafe Coffee Machine
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - DJ workshop
£4,814	13/02/2024	The grant would be used to continue our DJing workshops
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Kingswood Food Bank
£5,000	30/06/2022	to carry on supplying emergency parcels to the community of Kingswood
National Lottery Community Fund - Kingswood Urban Development
£248,096	30/06/2022	The funding will be used provide meaningful activities and engagement with children and young people in Corby specifically the Kingswood estate an area of high deprivation. This is an increase from ....more The funding will be used provide meaningful activities and engagement with children and young people in Corby specifically the Kingswood estate an area of high deprivation. This is an increase from their original proposal which was an ask of £198564 over 2 years. The additional amount will aid sustainability enabling all programmes to run for the longer period and the new Youth Engagement Coordinator role to firmly embed into the community. LCC is a registered charity and a private company limited by guarantee without share capital. They incorporated in December 2003 and took on the running of the Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre (KNC) at this time. Linwood also run a second community centre in Corby Old Village. The Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre is situated in the heart of The Kingswood estate in Corby an extremely underprivileged estate with renowned crime violence and anti-social behaviour problems. Various services are delivered from KNC including youth clubs sports clubs training a community café and more recently a food bank. North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) own the centre and surrounding land and lease the space to LCC. ProposalThis project will focus on providing children and young people from the Kingswood estate with a range of opportunities to engage in meaningful/constructive activities which will help to improve health and wellbeing community cohesion training and employability skills confidence and self-esteem. The project is three-fold and involves the following:1. Youth Engagement: To develop a Kingswood Steering Group for 14-24 year olds. Through this group a Youth Action Plan will be created with activities designed by YP. The plan will consider the types of facilities and sports provision required in the area and the YP will work closely with a newly appointed Youth Engagement Officer to co create and develop the plan. 2. Youth Delivery: The Youth Action Plan will include a range of activities that the er Corby Team will deliver awareness campaigns at local schools around anti-bullying hate crime promoting respect and celebrating diversity. 3. Sports Facility Provision: Redevelopment of a skateboard park fitness equipment (Callisthenics) and lights at the MUGA have been prioritised by the community.
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Kingswood Community Support Christmas Day Hampers
£2,000	11/10/2021	Kingswood Community Support Christmas Day Hampers for vulnerable families
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Kingswood Community Support
£3,000	06/07/2021	Kingswood Community Support
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Youth worker
£2,000	08/03/2021	Youth worker

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-82

JANICE FREEMAN Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Book Keeper

SAMANTHA JOHNSTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Place Lead

JEFFERY WOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired

LYNN ESTELLE JOHNSTON Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Development Worker

STEVE FORD Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Maintenance Engineer

BRYAN MASSIE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: KINGSWOOD HAZEL LEYS COMMUNITY IN SHEDS (KHL COMMUNITY IN SHEDS),

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/02/2004, number: 1102382
Registered at Companies House on 09/12/2003, number: 04989222

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

18 returns made; AR22: 9 days late, AR13: 65 days late, AR12: 26 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 94 days late, AR09: 731 days late, AR07: 50 days late, AR06: 25 days late,

Main office

Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre
Alberta Close
CORBY
NN18 9HU

Objectives

A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF KINGSWOOD, CORBY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND WHERE APPROPRIATE THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN NEED, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. B) TO ESTABLISH AND TO MAINTAIN FACILITIES AT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, ALBERTA CLOSE, KINGSWOOD OR ELSEWHERE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE SUCH FACILITIES ( WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) ON FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

KINGSWOOD, CORBY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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