Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE 

EMPOWER SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY OF NORRIS GREEN IN LIVERPOOL IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND IN PARTICLAR .TO ENCOURAGE THE COMMUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER PUTING ON ACTIVITIES FOR THOSE TO PARTICIPATE. USING ACTIVITIES TO BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER, INTERGENERATIONAL PROJECTS, PLAYSCHEMES , DANCE AND DRAMA, COMMUNITY EVENTS, TRAINING FOR VOLUNTEERS.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 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
Established: 14 years

norrisgreencommunityalliance.co.uk

norrisgreencommunity@btconnect.com

01512262672

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£255£268£-13n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£192£188£4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£191£162£29n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£167£163£4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£140£146£-6n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£152£146£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£182£166£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£144£141£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£113£122£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£125£133£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£122£100£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£45£46£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£52£60£-8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
Who works here?
  • 20 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool 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
Henry Smith Charity£99,000
DCMS£43,181
National Lottery Community Fund£12,450
BBC Children in Need£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH Getting Away
£2,500 21/07/2023
The funding will be used to take 30 vulnerable young people from a priority ward on a residential trip which will include recreational and social diversionary activities; to avoid engagement with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Helping Hand
£9,950 02/06/2023
The funding will be used to run a listening ear mental health and advice service and provide food deliveries to families and adults who are in hardship during the cost of living crisis. The project ....more
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - JAM Gardening Project (Just Average Men Gardening Project)
£635 20/06/2022
The funding will be used to provide a gardening project for vulnerable men.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£40,181 29/09/2020
"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 ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Norris Green Community Alliance
£99,000 12/08/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of the Norris Green Community Alliance in Liverpool, Merseyside.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Norris Green Community Alliance
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund some technology and additional staff hours to support children and young people living in a deprived area and isolated at home due to Covid-19. They will experience ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 02/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Come Together Project
£8,990 28/02/2018
12
The group will work with different parts of the community to provide a range of activities such as a lunch club, roller-skating and armchair Bollywood dance/exercises with the aim of giving ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Norris Green Community Alliance
£118,704 14/06/2017
36
This project will fund a project manager and play workers to deliver after school and holiday clubs in an area of high deprivation for child poverty. The project aims to provide a safe space, improve ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Norris Green Community Alliance
£81,000 08/06/2017
36
towards three years' salary of the Community Development Officer at a project providing support to disadvantaged people in a deprived area of Liverpool
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Norris Green Community Alliance
£2,100 24/05/2016
towards the cost of a weekend trip to the seaside for a group of disadvantaged children from Liverpool
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Norris Green Community Alliance
£1,900 21/07/2015
24
towards the cost of a two-night trip to holiday camp for a group of disadvantaged children from Liverpool
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Community - Norris Green
£213,978 10/08/2011
60
A project to develop the existing work of Norris Green Community Alliance (NGCA), which serves one of the most deprived communities of Liverpool. The aim of the project is to enable the residents of ....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: 56-85
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/07/2010, number: 1136867
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/03/2009, number: 06853661
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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
13 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ellergreen Community & Early Years
Ellergreen Road
LIVERPOOL
L11 2RY

Objectives

(A) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY ANDECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF NORRIS GREEN IN LIVERPOOL INSUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIRNEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY, AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOTEXCLUSIVELY:(B) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF NORRIS GREEN AND THENEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OFPOLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAIDRESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS INA COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THEINTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THEOBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LIVERPOOL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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