Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

THE THORNTON AND ALLERTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED 

Thornton & Allerton Community Association manage South Square Centre, a series of Grade II listed workers cottages. The charity runs and a range of arts, community, heritage and wellbeing activities. Rents from small emerging businesses and artists' studios and a team of volunteers underpin the organisation. Wet also apply for grants to run outreach programmes, internships and community events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
Established: 16 years

www.southsquarecentre.co.uk

info@southsquarecentre.co.uk

01274834747

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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£171£467£-296n/an/an/an/an/a214
31/03/22£399£467£-68n/an/an/an/an/a69
31/03/21£634£491£143£2£336£731.8569
31/03/20£171£186£-15n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/03/19?£247£52£195n/an/an/an/an/a170
31/08/18£104£114£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/17*£58£67£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£94£72£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£38£56£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£65£93£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13*£99£88£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£85£67£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/11£48£59£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/10?£82£47£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£25£18£7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 214 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Bradford City,

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£52,592
Co-Op Foundation£19,954
National Lottery Community Fund£9,964
Architectural Heritage Fund£9,000
Co-Operative Group£3,277
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South Square Centre
£1,561 22/10/2022
South Square is developing accessible, free wellbeing activities and creative workshops to take place in our garden space for families, older generations and local residents.
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to The Thornton and Allerton Community Association Ltd
£9,000 23/09/2022
The Brontë Birthplace
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South Square Centre
£1,716 23/10/2021
To secure South Square, a Grade II listed building and community asset, for the next 99 years, boosting local morale, community cohesion and reducing social isolation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Windows to the Future
£9,964 05/03/2021
12
The funding will be used to provide secondary glazing to the windows of a community arts centre in a rural area of West Yorkshire. The project aims to ensure the building is fit-for-purpose (warm ....more
Co-Op Foundation - The Thornton and Allerton Association Ltd STC Expand application
£9,964 02/12/2020
To help you build on the work and impact from Space to Connect Explore funding, aimed at providing communities with a space to connect
DCMS - Capital Works and Covid-19
£52,592 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Co-Op Foundation - STC Explore
£9,990 03/10/2019
Host consultation and engagement activities with the local community to better understand the issues of loneliness, social isolation and lack of social cohesion between communities. This will support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - South Square - Fit for the Future!
£10,000 06/12/2018
12
The project will enable the community centre to remain under community ownership, providing security of tenure for the many activities run from the location and secure financial sustainability.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thornton and Allerton Community Association Ltd
£648,900 22/11/2018
South Square Centre - Thornton, Brontës and Beyond
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Thornton and Allerton Community Association
£2,888 19/11/2018
We are applying for a Community Asset Transfer of our building. This will enable us to be a sustainable organisation for the next 50 years.
Garfield Weston Foundation - WAF award
£125,000 05/10/2018
South Square Centre - Fit for the Future!
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thornton and Allerton Community Association Ltd
£8,100 28/09/2017
Strengthening South Square's Foundation in Readiness for a Community Asset Transfer
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Thornton and Allerton Community Association Ltd
£11,700 17/02/2016
Celebrating of the life of Charlotte Bronte and her birthplace in the village of Thornton
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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: 30-68
  • CAROLE ROBERTS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Community Support Delivery Manager
  • MOLLY JEWITT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Communications Consultant
  • SONAM KHAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Programme Management
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/12/2007, number: 1122128
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/08/2007, number: 06342828
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR17: 24 days late, AR13: 301 days late, AR09: 44 days late,
Main office

THORNTON & ALLERTON COMMUNITY ASSOC
SOUTH SQUARE
THORNTON
BRADFORD
BD13 3LD

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THORNTON AND ALLERTON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY IN PARTICULAR BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THORNTON AND ALLERTON, BRADFORD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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