Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 6
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

ROCK FOUNDATION UK LIMITED

To act as a resource for people with learning difficulties and the disadvantaged by providing advice, assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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
31/03/24£803£750£53£681£1,022£97415.63334
31/03/23*£720£686£34£0£970£92216.12746
31/03/22£724£593£130£0£936£88817.92640
31/03/21£992£718£274£0£806£75212.62430
31/03/20?£716£607£110£0£532£4639.22440
31/03/18£449£396£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£392£340£52n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£329£312£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£289£206£83n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£231£151£80n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£228£208£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£162£141£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£164£126£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£92£91£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£21£11£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 90.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 96.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 25%
Liabilities/Income: 44%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 15.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 9.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 16 years

www.rockfoundation.org.uk

office@rockfoundation.org.uk

01472488026

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities

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
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£16,300
DCMS£10,000
Lincolnshire Community Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000 19/02/2024
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Sport England - Get Fit with The Rock
£914 10/11/2023
4
This project will purchase low cost equipment for a new room that has been turned into a sports hall and for the Support Worker to attend a UK Coaching online course to be able to design and run sessions for participants with learning disabilities.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Rock Foundation UK Ltd
£1,346 21/10/2023
To better deal with increased demand and to offer more user services, we would like to develop our Foodbank service into a Foodbank Plus. We aim to convert a building into a Community Hub for this.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 10/03/2023
24
Navigating The Storm
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Rock Foundation UK
£1,874 22/10/2022
We would like to establish a foodbank to help feed those in poverty, and to address their needs. We will do this through one-to-one support and group work, liaising with other services and agencies.
National Lottery Community Fund - Script 2 Screen
£10,000 27/08/2021
The funding will be used to provide people with learning disabilities with an opportunity to make their voices heard and share their stories through short films and photography which will be made available within the community. The project aims to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 02/09/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Touching Base
£10,000 24/04/2020
12
The funding will be used on a distance learning and support project to enable the group to support individuals with learning disabilities and their families. They will provide learner tailored activity and resource packs regular phone support as ....more
CAF - Grant to Rock Foundation UK Ltd
£5,000 21/04/2020
3
Grant to Rock Foundation UK Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
Lincolnshire Community Foundation - Rock Foundation Grimsby Covid Project
£5,000 10/04/2020
Emergency food provision
Lincolnshire Community Foundation - Rock Foundation Grimsby Covid Project
£5,000 10/04/2020
Emergency food provision
Crisis UK - Grant to Rock Foundation
£5,000 09/04/2020
Food and running costs of foodbank
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Rock Foundation
£16,300 04/02/2020
replacement of a roof for a charity which works with people with disabilities in Grimsby
National Lottery Community Fund - Feeling good, going further.
£9,880 23/11/2018
12
The project will use funding to run hair, beauty and healthy eating courses alongside confidence building skills for adults with learning disabilities. This will help enable them to learn new employment and self-care skills, increase their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Rock Radio
£9,965 26/07/2017
12
The group will launch an internal radio station which will be created by and for their learning disabled members. This will provide opportunities to gain new skills in areas including producing and recording, and improve their confidence, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Rock Foundation UK Limited
£69,375 30/03/2017
36
The grant will enable the learning disability charity to provide a support worker specifically to support those moving into and maintaining independent living.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Rock Foundation UK Limited
£12,860 10/06/2015
12
Charity provides support tor the Learning Disabled. The grant will support the charity to review its financial systems and put in place a more robust and automated system to free up management time and provide more strategic information.
National Lottery Community Fund - Tech-ability
£49,850 27/11/2014
12
Not Available
Sport England - DN329DZ-Archery and Golf project
£3,852 28/05/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'DN329DZ-Archery and Golf project'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Rock Foundation UK Limited
£30,000 28/09/2012
utilities (gas, electricity, water) and insurance
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 50-66
  • HOWARD RONALD PAGE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Self Employed
  • MICHAEL SCARROTT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: None
  • PAMELA EILEEN HODGE Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Carer
  • ROSALIND JANE PAGE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Teacher
  • SARAH ANNE HOWARD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Speech & Language Therapist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/11/2008, number: 1126626
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/05/2008, number: 06585052
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR23: 43 days late, AR10: 115 days late, AR09: 76 days late,
Main office

39-41 HENEAGE ROAD
GRIMSBY
DN32 9ES

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE COMPANY IS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, GUIDANCE AND ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE WITH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LEARNING DIFFICULTIES THIS IS TO BE PROVIDED BY EDUCATION, TRAINING, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, RAISING AWARENESS, SUPPORT GROUPS AND ANY OTHER MEANS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANISATION

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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