Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

FAIR SHARES GLOUCESTERSHIRE 

We run two community based time banks which meet everyday needs through sharing time, skills and opportunities. Participants help out in their local community, using their skills to provide services for others. Every hour participating earns one credit that can be used to access support from other participants.We also run timebanking and Peer maths mentoring in prisons.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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: 19 years

www.fairshares.org.uk

time@fairshares.org.uk

01452415900

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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£250£230£20n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/03/22£231£224£7n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/03/21£246£211£36n/an/an/an/an/a250
31/03/20£241£211£31n/an/an/an/an/a400
31/03/19£257£235£23n/an/an/an/an/a300
31/03/18£391£363£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£385£419£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£411£382£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£376£375£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£416£390£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£529£435£94£65£103£782.2120
31/03/12£200£239£-39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£206£220£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£174£166£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£208£138£70£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£101£101£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£105£105£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • 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
  • Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 200 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
National Lottery Community Fund£179,426
DCMS£46,057
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Allen Lane Foundation£9,000
CAF£4,600
Barnwood Trust£2,785
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Barnwood Trust - Access Audits
£1,440 08/12/2022
ReciteMe accessibility software for website
Barnwood Trust - Gloucestershire Funders (Organisational & Group Funding)
£1,345 30/08/2022
Holiday for people with long term life-limiting health conditions
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£9,000 11/07/2022
36
£9,000 over three years towards activities to support older people in Stroud.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 04/03/2022
Fair Shares Gloucester Groups: Community Recovery
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£20,000 07/12/2021
24
towards two year's running costs of 'Stroud Time Bank', supporting isolated and vulnerable people, especially older people, in Gloucestershire.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fair Shares Gloucester Groups: Community Recovery
£160,000 30/09/2021
The organisation will use the funding for their ‘Fair Shares Gloucester Groups: Community Recovery’ project. The project will help 325 marginalised and vulnerable people in Gloucester - who have ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Stroud District: Covid Recovery and Support
£9,876 24/09/2021
The project will use the funding to deliver adapted activities for isolated older people and those suffering memory loss. This will enable them to access activities that help with the transition ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£8,557 02/10/2020
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
£37,500 29/09/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£4,600 19/06/2020
3
Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Gloucester Craft and Upcycling Groups
£9,550 23/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to provide craft and upcycling activities for people who may be socially isolated in Gloucester. The project aims to bring people together, improve community cohesion and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£10,000 12/09/2018
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing social and emotional support to marginalised people in a deprived area of Gloucester
National Lottery Community Fund - Gloucester Time Bank: Woodwork Training
£10,000 17/05/2018
12
The organisation will provide training and support for unemployed young people to help them increase their confidence and skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fair Shares Workshop Project
£5,196 01/03/2017
12
This group will use the funding to equip a new training hub, where people will learn skills in woodworking and DIY. Training in establishing a social enterprise will also be provided. This will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£14,401 09/11/2016
12
Fair Shares Gloucestershire will deliver a pilot to test and evaluate a new approach to supporting prisoners transitioning into the community through skills training, individual support and linking ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£10,000 03/12/2015
24
towards two years' running costs of a project providing social and emotional support to disadvantaged people affected by health issues in Gloucester
Comic Relief - Co-producing Gloucestershire: Dementia Friendly Activities and Communities
£127,000 27/05/2015
36
Fair Shares Gloucestershire are positioned as one the key voluntary agencies dealing with dementia issues in the county. Building on previous work they have done particularly using innovative ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Timebanking for Offenders
£278,560 08/04/2015
60
This will support prisoners and their families through time banking in prisons, enabling them to develop new skills, confidence and self-esteem and to maintain family relationships throughout ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£125,000 27/10/2014
36
over three years towards salaries at a time bank linked to prisons in Gloucestershire, helping link prisoners to their families and to the wider community
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£15,000 28/08/2013
Fair Shares Gloucestershire provides a mutual network of support through time banking. This grant will help fund the Broker in the Cheltenham Time Bank. People who are marginalised will gain ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fair Shares Gloucestershire
£6,500 12/09/2012
towards one year's running costs this organisation's work with older people in the North Cotswolds
Dunhill Medical Trust - Helping Hand Project
£44,986 21/06/2012
This project will guarentee older people with two weeks of support following an accident or unexpected stay in hospital
National Lottery Community Fund - Cotswolds Time Bank
£214,869 09/06/2010
60
This project based in Gloucester will engage and support vulnerable and isolated people in the Cotswolds District Council area through the use of time banking.Time banks are community based projects ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 64-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/07/2005, number: 1110418
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/10/2003, number: 04938680
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
18 returns made; AR13: 46 days late,
Main office

Chequers Community centre
Painswick Road
Gloucester
GL4 6PR

Objectives

(I) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS FOR THE PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE;(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE COMMUNITY BY MEANS OF ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING THE PRACTICE OF 'FAIR SHARES' WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM, PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED AND VULNERABLE, SUCH AS YOUNG PERSONS, THE AGED AND THE UNEMPLOYED, AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH COMMUNITY INITIATIVES AND SUPPORT..

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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