Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

THE EMERALD CENTRE 

The Emerald Centre delivers a wide range of activities to vulnerable local people and The Irish Community in Leicestershire. These include senior citizens lunch clubs, social activities, sports (includes soccer, Gaelic football, Irish dance, music for people of all ages). The facility is also a base for The Leicester Irish Forum and Comhaltas.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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£161£163£-3n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£162£215£-52n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£428£320£108n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£163£183£-20n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£219£143£76n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£143£134£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£155£161£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£197£183£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£208£189£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£286£276£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£262£276£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£322£313£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£246£221£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£204£224£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£178£192£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£1,165£1,061£104£18£76£140.240

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years

www.emeraldcentre.org.uk

emeraldcentre@yahoo.co.uk

0116 2769186

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Leicestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 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
DCMS£100,000
Power to Change£79,160
Sport England£17,200
CAF£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Power to Change - THE EMERALD CENTRE (RCF)
£10,000 12/12/2022
Grant to THE EMERALD CENTRE (RCF)
National Lottery Community Fund - Meet Eat and Live Well
£9,900 20/05/2022
The funding will be used to continue a weekly lunch club for the community centre and carry out extensive consultation to ensure needs are being met.
Power to Change - The Emerald Centre (CBF)
£59,160 26/11/2020
Grant to The Emerald Centre (CBF)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£100,000 05/10/2020
"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
Power to Change - C-19 Response - The Emerald Centre
£10,000 15/06/2020
Grant to C-19 Response - The Emerald Centre
CAF - Grant to The Emerald Centre
£10,000 27/05/2020
3
Grant to The Emerald Centre to support the organisation through COVID19
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£10,000 16/04/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
Sport England - The Emerald Sports Youth Initiative.
£7,200 24/09/2019
12
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled The Emerald Sports Youth Initiative.. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Emerald Centre
£9,700 15/03/2019
12
This funding will be used to upgrade the facilities at the community centre so that more events and activities can take place.
Garfield Weston Foundation - WAF award
£35,000 05/10/2018
New mini-bus - with disability access.
National Lottery Community Fund - Disability and Dementia Shared Action Project
£175,560 31/05/2018
36
This project will deliver a range of activities to local, vulnerable older people, helping to reduce isolation and loneliness and increase the support on offer to people with dementia and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Music and Exercise for disabled people for a better life
£9,580 03/05/2017
12
The project will deliver activity sessions for older people living with physical and mental ill-health. This will help improve their wellbeing and reduce social isolation.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Emerald Centre
£25,000 22/10/2014
Another Tale To Tell
Sport England - The Disability Adapted Sports Programme
£9,000 06/03/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'The Disability Adapted Sports Programme '. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on ....more
Sport England - The Emerald Centre
£50,000 12/01/2012
Funding under Sport England's Inspired Facilities funding programme for a Capital project titled 'The Emerald Centre'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports. This funding has ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Emerald Centre
£33,000 19/09/2011
the salary of the Vulnerable Elders Volunteer Co-ordinator, training, CRB, office admin and volunteer costs
National Lottery Community Fund - The Emerald Centre
£97,863 10/08/2010
48
This project in the Northfields and Greater Humberstone area of Leicester will recruit a new community development manager who will oversee the development of a grass roots community project aimed at ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-69
  • DIANE CANK Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Councillor For Troon Ward Leicester City Council
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/05/2007, number: 1119027
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/12/2006, number: 06028027
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

THE EMERALD CENTRE
450 GIPSY LANE
LEICESTER
LE5 0TB

Objectives

TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR PEOPLE FROM GREATER HUMBERSTONE AREA OF THE CITY WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON EXCLUDED AND DISADVANTAGED GROUPS.TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS TO WORK TOGETHER AND FOSTER BETTER COMMUNITY RELATIONS.TO PROVIDE TRAINING, RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR IRISH TRAVELLERS, ELDERS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES.TO PROVIDE AN ADVICE CENTRE WITH ACCESS TO 2ND TIER COORDIANTION AND TRAINING SERVICES, ESPECIALLY ADVICE AND GUIDANCE TO PROMOTE HEALTHY LIVING PAYING PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO RACIAL AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY OF THE LOCAL AREA.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER HUMBERSTONE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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