Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

LIVABILITY

Livability is the disability charity committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them. Every day, we deliver a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services to over 1,000 people who are at the heart of everything we do. Our Christian ethos is why we were founded in 1844 and it's why we still exist today.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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 age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£49,843£54,131£-4,288£1,189£41,192£29,0606.41,24033
31/03/22£53,516£50,287£3,229£1,675£47,289£33,9718.11,37430
31/03/21£46,138£48,433£-2,295£997£33,154£20,33051,560106
31/03/20£44,276£47,024£-2,748£1,281£39,792£28,1457.21,745128
31/03/19£47,933£52,885£-4,952£1,417£42,540£30,1716.81,718170
31/03/18£46,180£48,058£-1,878£1,438£47,492£32,9108.21,9730
31/03/17£50,334£53,000£-2,666£1,249£47,180£32,5137.41,2040
31/03/16*£37,836£41,383£-3,547£1,190£47,133£36,33810.51,1890
31/03/15£44,423£38,500£5,923£1,729£48,842£38,589121,2200
31/03/14£40,776£42,665£-1,889£1,548£44,711£34,2489.61,2500
31/03/13£40,332£38,520£1,812£1,732£45,409£33,45110.41,2070
31/03/12£39,428£40,323£-895£1,629£42,862£33,464101,1950
31/03/11£40,606£39,835£771£1,865£49,549£40,02812.11,2200
31/03/10£42,686£40,524£2,162£2,578£41,496£33,759101,6160
31/03/09£41,202£42,535£-1,333£2,404£43,138£36,35010.31,4640
31/03/08£41,797£43,904£-2,107£2,588£47,923£41,68011.41,3200

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 33%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 71%
Reserves/Spending: 6.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 18 years

shaftesburygroup.org

info@shaftesburygroup.org

0191 300 9970

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bangladesh, India, Ireland, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
London Marathon Charitable Trust£148,900
Wolfson Foundation£125,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£75,000
Co-Operative Group£9,516
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Livability Flourish
£1,835 21/10/2023
We would like to buy plants, tools and educational aids, allowing us to expand our programme to make it even more inclusive and environmentally friendly.
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Next Steps accessible outdoor sports area
£15,900 08/09/2023
towards new flooring in an accessible outdoor sports space and sport equipment at the Livability Next Steps day centre .
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Livability Wall Street Technology Project
£4,127 23/06/2022
Grant to Livability
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Kingsley Hall, LBBD - putting sports, activity, and health at the heart of community life.
£33,000 16/12/2021
A grant towards the refurbishment of the sports hall and changing room, installation of a Changing Places bathroom and disabled access improvements
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Livability
£5,000 05/08/2021
to help renovate the garden at Treetops residential home in Colchester
Suffolk Community Foundation - Enabling Icanho to continue delivering rehabilitation safely during the pandemic
£3,028 12/02/2021
2
Enabling Icanho to continue delivering rehabilitation safely during the pandemic.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 28/01/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Livability
£125,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 20/11/2020
Kingsley Hall Church & Community Centre: at the heart of community life for the people of Barking & Dagenham
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Friends of Livability York House
£7,680 24/10/2020
Brightening Lives is our way to put the elements in place for well-lived lives, for people with disabilities in Ossett, Yorkshire.
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Kingsley Hall, LBBD - putting sports, activity, and health at the heart of community life.
£100,000 09/09/2020
Towards the refurbishment of the sports hall at Kingsley Hall including the renewal of changing room facilities, installation of a Changing Places bathroom and improvements to disabled access into the hall. The transformation means the hall will be ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Livability Icanho: Supporting brain injury rehabilitation during COVID-19
£4,449 19/07/2020
5
The provision of PPE equipment and easy to sanitise equipment so the centre can reopen during Covid 19 restrictions.
Sport England - Toyota Parasport Fund - New Race Runners
£4,196 11/05/2020
38
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Toyota Parasport Fund - New Race Runners. This project is a Athletics project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Livability
£3,929 19/11/2018
We want to purchase and equip two sensory sheds for profoundly disabled learners with severe autism.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Livability Holton Lee
£8,700 09/05/2018
Holton Lee - An oral history
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Livability
£50,000 14/03/2012
towards the purchase a hydrotherapy pool for disabled young people in Dorset
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifestyle Choices - Greater London
£127,041 14/12/2011
48
Intensive one-to-one support to disabled people resulting in greater independence, increased confidence and social integration in the London Boroughs of Barnet, Harrow and Tower Hamlets._x000B_
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 47-75
  • ANDREW WILSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Journalist
  • CANON SUSAN JOHNS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director Of Fundraising
  • DUNCAN INGRAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Former Ftse100 Director
  • JOHN WEAVING Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Accountant
  • LISA QUINLAN-RAHMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • PETER WOODALL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Local Government Officer
  • RT REVD RICHARD FRITH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • TOM O'CONNOR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/10/2006, number: 1116530
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/10/2006, number: 05967087
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR16: 0 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE GUTHRIE ESSAME CHARITABLE TRUST on 14/05/2021
  • Asset transfer in from IPSWICH AND DISTRICT STROKE CLUB on 03/11/2021
  • Asset transfer in from THE SHAFTESBURY DEVELOPMENT FUND on 01/02/2021
Main office

Coburg House
1 Coburg St
Gateshead
NE8 1NS

Objectives

3.1 TO ASSIST OR EDUCATE ANY PERSON IN CHARITABLE NEED, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DISABLED PERSON AND THE PARENTS, GUARDIANS AND CARERS OF SUCH PEOPLE BY WHATEVER MEANS; AND3.2 TO PROVIDE FACILITIES, SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE FOR CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS, OTHER CHRISTIAN GROUPINGS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS SEEKING TO ALLEVIATE CHARITABLE NEEDS,IN EACH CASE IN A MANNER WHICH AUTHENTICATES THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ITS MORAL PRINCIPLES IN A SPIRIT OF LOVE AND PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN SERVICE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE OBJECTS 'CHRISTIAN FAITH' MEANS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS REVEALED AND EXPRESSED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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