Overall GiG Score: 23 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

GROUNDWORK GREATER MANCHESTER 

Our vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, whichrespect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper. We will focus on our three strategic priorities of People, Places & Prosperity
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 16 years

https://www.groundwork.org.uk/greatermanchest

greatermanchester@groundwork.org.uk

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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£6,135£6,107£27£34£1,744£1,6793.31085
31/03/22£5,656£5,610£46£35£1,717£1,6523.58910
31/03/21£3,529£3,360£169£26£1,671£1,6055.7615
31/03/20£2,172£2,352£-180£17£1,502£1,5027.73710
31/03/19£1,954£2,090£-136£33£1,682£1,6829.73710
31/03/18£1,750£1,850£-100£15£1,818£1,81811.8380
31/03/17£1,708£1,840£-132£20£1,918£1,91812.5340
31/03/16£1,902£2,201£-299£22£2,050£2,05011.2340
31/03/15£1,752£2,030£-279£29£2,585£2,58515.3390
31/03/14£5,861£6,135£-274£22£3,108£3,1086.1540
31/03/13£9,104£9,175£-71£28£3,382£3,3824.4600
31/03/12£4,045£3,788£258£69£3,453£3,45310.9600
31/03/11£6,906£6,940£-34£131£3,196£3,1965.51890
31/03/10£6,449£6,591£-142£146£3,304£3,30461400
31/03/09£7,273£7,190£84£932£3,518£3,5185.91030

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 50%
Liabilities/Income: 29%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.6
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Armed Forces/Emergency Service Efficiency
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 108 employees
  • 5 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Lancashire, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford,

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
Department for Work and Pensions£316,619
DCMS£250,000
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment£237,628
Ministry of Defence£177,500
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£165,695
National Lottery Community Fund£70,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - We tell you Project
£10,000 17/03/2023
The organisation will deliver an open-access youth project consisting of social action youth work and mentoring support and engaging young people with positive activities with the aim of improving ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to Lostock and Groundwork
£2,000 31/10/2022
We request funding to offer a weekly youth club session for young people of Lostock.
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Active Crumpsall
£9,490 26/05/2022
This project will enable us to work with residents to make the neglected green spaces, next to their housing, more attractive for all by installing chat benches, outdoor play equipment, and raised ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to Goundwork/Lostock High School
£1,950 30/04/2022
Summer workshops to improve employability for young people.
Ministry of Defence - OVA Afghanistan Veterans' Fund
£35,000 11/03/2022
To increase capacity in services and initiatives that offer supportive comradeship, engagement and wellbeing efforts for those in the Armed Forces community impacted by events in Afghanistan, and the ....more
MACC - Groundwork GM
£750 25/11/2021
Event(s) to raise awareness and increase the reporting of hate crime
MACC - Groundwork GM
£750 25/11/2021
Event(s) to raise awareness and increase the reporting of hate crime
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£32,500 03/09/2021
For existing charitable projects to help charities to sustain activities and services that people from Armed Forces communities use and value.
DCMS - GRCF2021 Resilient River Valleys
£250,000 16/07/2021
The Resilient River Valleys Project is a partnership between 3 environmental charitiesGroundwork Greater Manchester, City of Trees and Mersey Rivers Trust - focusing ondelivering nature based ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - GROUNDWORK GREATER MANCHESTER
£316,619 01/04/2021
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Achievement Coaches
£48,428 17/02/2021
To deliver a new, evolved coaching programme to young people in Trafford; developed in response to the impact of covid has had on young people(YP) and families.
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£35,000 12/02/2021
The Positive Pathways programme funded projects that develop and run activities supporting the mental health and wellbeing of ex-Forces.
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£20,000 12/02/2021
For community projects that reduce isolation and promote integration
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Working Wardrobe
£86,600 01/02/2021
investment to establish a mobile ‘Working Wardrobe’ service to provide a full outfit for interview, with accompanying personalised interview advice, for unemployed Trafford residents aged 16+ who ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Groundwork Greater Manchester STC Expand application
£9,760 18/01/2021
Develop 'friends of' group, ongoing consultation with community.
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - COVID IMPACT FUND
£35,000 25/06/2020
Funding allowed the group to continue to support unemployed veterans in Greater Manchester to prepare for and secure employment.
Ministry of Defence - Covid-19 Impact Fund
£35,000 15/06/2020
To maintain services and activities where organisations' finances had been impacted by Covid
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF3002-20/21 - Irwell
£15,000 15/05/2020
Defras Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) Policy published in June 2013, defined a framework to encourage the adaptation of an integrated catchment based approach to improving the quality of our water ....more
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£20,000 15/05/2020
to provide immediate support for vulnerable veterans with reduced social contact
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - ACTIVE APPETITES -Fun and Food
£6,540 24/04/2020
Offering young people in Old Trafford a safe place to come and meet with youth workers, get fed at lunch time and access other services. To be delivered at summer holidays. Sessions will be for 2 ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0537-CF852 - Meeting of the waters weir project
£89,695 01/04/2020
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Community Coheshion Grant to Groundwork Trust GTM
£5,000 16/12/2019
12
Expand upon last year's project "Old Trafford Youth Forum". Developed with young people from underrepresented communities to come and gather as a group and facilitate opportunities for the ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Working Wardrobe
£86,060 28/11/2019
to support the establishment and first 2 years operation of a ‘Working Wardrobe’ shop based at Stretford Mall in Trafford, with the majority of items in the shop provided free of charge from ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Old Trafford Youth Forum
£10,000 26/09/2019
12
Old Trafford Youth Forum
MACC - Groundwork MSSTT (Manchester Salford Stockport Tameside Trafford)
£5,000 05/09/2019
Project aimed at keeping people safe and/or reducing harm and offending and/or strengthening communities and places
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Holiday Hunger 2019
£10,000 22/07/2019
Holiday youth club – 5 days a week (9-5) for 4 weeks. Activities, breakfast and lunch
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Groundwork Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford
£29,976 21/05/2019
36
This project will support children and young people affected by local deprivation with a skills development programme. It will improve positive relationships, emotional resilience whilst also ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - HMPasties Kitchen
£50,000 23/04/2019
12
TPP4 - HMPasties Kitchen
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Bradshaw Brook & Eagley Brook Restoration
£17,576 01/04/2019
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Bradshaw Brook & Eagley Brook Restoration
£28,424 01/04/2019
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - WEIF3002-19/20 IRWELL WFD CRF GRANT PAYMENTS TO CHARITIES
£15,000 01/04/2019
Water Environment Improvement Fund - Catchment Partnership Action Fund (CPAF) 2019/20
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Winter Resilience Grant to Groundwork
£7,958 31/12/2018
12
Groundwork will be hosting events across Trafford to raise awareness of LEAP
Manchester City Council - Grant to Groundwork Manchester, Salford
£4,647 29/11/2018
Grant towards delivery of Friday evening provision for community cohesion
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Trafford Achievment Coaches
£48,612 12/11/2018
The Achievement Coaches mentoring programme provides early intervention support to young people at risk of underachieving.The project aims to provide personalised support to young people so that they ....more
Manchester City Council - Grant to Groundwork Manchester, Salford
£46,037 01/10/2018
Grant funding to be used towards protecting playgrounds
Manchester City Council - Grant to Groundwork Manchester, Salford
£14,811 01/10/2018
Grant funding to be used to research plant-based interventions to improve air quality at four sites
Manchester City Council - Grant to Groundwork Manchester, Salford
£27,539 01/10/2018
Grant funding to be used to develop and protect x4 playgrounds
Manchester City Council - Grant to Groundwork Manchester, Salford
£11,613 01/10/2018
Grant funding to be used to develop and protect x4 playgrounds
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Community Cohesion Grant to Groundwork
£5,100 31/08/2018
12
Establishing a young person's forum for diverse communities in Old Trafford
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - Bradshaw & Eagley Brook Restoration Project 18/19
£3,350 01/04/2018
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - Bradshaw & Eagley Brook Restoration Project 18/19
£7,380 01/04/2018
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - Restoring Suffolk's Rivers 2018
£12,072 01/04/2018
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Environment Agency - IRWELL WFD CRF GRANT PAYMENTS TO CHARITIES
£15,000 01/04/2018
Water Envronment Improvement Fund Hosting for Catchment Partnership for 1819
Ministry of Defence - ALB - Armed forces Covenant Fund Trust- Covenent Fund
£19,990 01/04/2018
Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants for local projects that support community integration or local delivery of services.
National Lottery Community Fund - HMPasties - Catering Training
£9,910 21/03/2018
12
This group will use the funding to create a new social bakery, making and selling pasties to the public and wholesale. The project aims to provide sustainable employment and training to people with ....more
Sport England - Potentials Fund
£149,992 03/11/2017
42
Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Potentials Fund'. This project is a Sport and Physical Activity project, with a focus on younger ....more
Sport England - Potentials Fund
£149,992 03/11/2017
41
Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Potentials Fund. This project is a Sport and Physical Activity project, with a focus on younger ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Water: the Pollution Risks
£7,500 01/04/2017
To provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations to deliver projects to protect and enhance the water environment and deliver other EA objectives
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Water: the Pollution Risks
£7,500 01/04/2017
To provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations to deliver projects to protect and enhance the water environment and deliver other EA objectives
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Irwell
£15,000 01/04/2017
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Water: the Pollution Risks
£20,000 01/04/2017
To provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations to deliver projects to protect and enhance the water environment and deliver other EA objectives
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Groundwork Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford
£10,000 03/06/2014
Widening our wider community’s awareness/understanding of the local area's social/industrial and natural history
National Lottery Community Fund - Groundwork MSSTT
£10,000 23/02/2012
12
This is one of 30 communities across England receiving development funding through the Communities Living Sustainably programme to help jump start detailed planning for more sustainable living. They ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-61
  • JACK COLLIER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Associate Director
  • JANET THOMAS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: National Head Of Safety And Security
  • JOANNE YATES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Registered Mental Health Nurse And Nurse Lecturer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/06/2008, number: 1124508
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/03/2008, number: 06543150
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from GROUNDWORK OLDHAM AND ROCHDALE on 06/12/2022
Main office

Trafford Ecology Park
Lake Road
Trafford Park
MANCHESTER
M17 1TU

Objectives

1.1. To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Bolton, Bury Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford; the Unitary Borough of Blackburn with Darwen and the Districts of Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale and Ribble Valley and such other areas as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion determine from time to time (“the area of benefit”);1.2. To provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for those living in or working in or resorting to the area of benefit;1.3. To advance public education in environmental matters and of the ways of better conserving, protecting and improving the same wheresoever;1.4. To promote urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation within the area of benefit by all or any of the following means:1.4.1. the relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit;1.4.2. the relief of unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit including assistance to find employment;1.4.3. the advancement of education, training or re-training particularly amongst unemployed people and providing unemployed people with work experience;1.4.4. the provision of financial assistance, technical assistance, business advice or consultancy in order to provide training and employment opportunities for unemployed people in cases of financial or other charitable need through help:1.4.4.1. in setting up their own businesses; or1.4.4.2. to existing businesses;1.4.5. the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of work space, buildings and / or land for use on favourable terms;1.4.6. the provision of housing for those who are in conditions of need and the improvement of housing in the public sector or in charitable ownership provided that such power shall not extend to relieving any local authority or other bodies of a statutory duty to provide or improve housing;1.4.7. the maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities;1.4.8. the preservation of buildings or sites of historic or architectural importance;1.4.9. the provision or assistance in the provision of recreational facilities for the public at large and / or those who by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, have need of such facilities;1.4.10. the protection or conservation of the environment, and the promotion and maintenance of sustainable community based projects;1.4.11. the provision of public health facilities and childcare;1.4.12. the promotion of public safety and prevention of crime;1.4.13. such other means as may from time to time be determined subject to the prior written consent of the Commission;1.5. To promote sustainable development within the area of benefit by:1.5.1. the preservation, conservation and the protection of the environment and the prudent use of resources;1.5.2. the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially disadvantaged communities;1.5.3. the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic growth and regeneration;1.6. To advance the education of the public in subjects relating to sustainable development and the protection, enhancement and rehabilitation of the environment and to promote study and research in such subjects provided that the useful results of such study are disseminated to the public at largeSustainable development in this Article and in Article 1.5 above means “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

Defined Area of Benefit:

METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS OF BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN, MANCHESTER, SALFORD, STOCKPORT, TAMESIDE, TRAFFORD AND THE DISTRICTS OF BURNLEY, HYNDBURN, PENDLE, ROSSENDALE & RIBBLE VALLEY

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