Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 5

Spending declining: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 2

THE SPRING CHARITY

The Charity's aims are to benefit families in the Northampton area by the provision of activities and facilities for care,leisure and recreation;to promote social welfare by improving the conditions of life,and to benefit the public at large but especially those who are disadvantaged due to their youth,age,financial hardship or social,health or economic circumstances.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

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
31/08/23?		£67	£54	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/22		£64	£42	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/21		£56	£42	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/20		£10	£25	£-15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/19		£13	£34	£-21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/18		£69	£80	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£122	£100	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£86	£322	£-237	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£88	£230	£-143	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£496	£478	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£450	£542	£-92	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£569	£473	£96	£11	£547	£445	11.3	15	0
31/03/11		£650	£553	£98	£5	£450	£341	7.4	11	0
31/03/10?		£275	£306	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/09		£534	£439	£95	£7	£384	£305	8.3	18	0
31/08/08	*	£432	£144	£289	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years

www.springcharity.co.uk

communityspringcharity@gmail.com

01604 245767

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Sports activities

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Northamptonshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 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 - Family Breakfast Club
£1,499	19/03/2024 11	Family Breakfast Club that will run each morning to give hungry parents and caregivers who are experiencing food poverty a safe and non-judgmental place to come for breakfast and should bring ....more Family Breakfast Club that will run each morning to give hungry parents and caregivers who are experiencing food poverty a safe and non-judgmental place to come for breakfast and should bring families together to share food, learn recipes, and strengthen community ties
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - From Seed to Soup
£1,200	06/02/2023	This grant would provide funding for tabletop stoves and hand food mixers that would be used to cookery sessions to enable both organisations to provide a long-term, sustainable approach to ....more This grant would provide funding for tabletop stoves and hand food mixers that would be used to cookery sessions to enable both organisations to provide a long-term, sustainable approach to addressing food poverty
Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to Spring Charity
£4,400	01/11/2021	To provide experience with age appropriate IT, for young children at home in the Castle Ward area of Northampton Town, and children in key stages 1 & 2 at school, where such equipment is limited.
National Lottery Community Fund - Spring Charity Venture
£215,000	06/08/2021	The funding will be used by the group to cover core costs and extend its work and develop its support that is available to families with children under five living in a deprived area. the funding ....more The funding will be used by the group to cover core costs and extend its work and develop its support that is available to families with children under five living in a deprived area. the funding will be used to work with people from BAME communities in the local area to help develop relationships within families and with others.
National Lottery Community Fund - Spring Charity Venture
£9,032	22/10/2020 6	The funding will be used to deliver stay and play sessions for families with young children. The project aims to ensure that families are able to reduce anxiety relieve risk of domestic abuse and ....more The funding will be used to deliver stay and play sessions for families with young children. The project aims to ensure that families are able to reduce anxiety relieve risk of domestic abuse and improve mental health and wellbeing during the current coronavirus pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - CV19 Venture Response
£8,981	22/05/2020 7	The funding will be used to provide online and phone assistance to local people experiencing issues such as mental ill health. The project aims to support the community through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 57-81

PASSWELL CHISANGA Appointed: 2022

JOHN DICKIE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired Teacher

CAROL BULL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Teacher

DR ROSEMARIE DICKIE, Occupation: Lecturer (Retd)

MAVIS MUNDIRWA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: POWER OF THE MIND NETWORKS,

WINSTON ALLISTER STRACHEN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

JANICE MARGARET FREEMAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

JILL SPIBY Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Retired

DUNCAN JOHN MCALPINE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: THE KIDSAID FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/10/2007, number: 1121126
Registered at Companies House on 07/08/2006, number: 05898293

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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

Filing Record

16 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR14: 125 days late, AR08: 7 days late,

Main office

The Spring Charity
Spring Lane
NORTHAMPTON
NN1 2JW

Objectives

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTHAMPTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF OUT OF SCHOOL FACILITIES FOR THE DAILY CARE, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS; ANDTO FURTHER BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF CASTLE WARD, NORTHAMPTON (WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS) BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE COMMUNITY AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND COHESION.'

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

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