Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

THE OASIS CENTRE - CORNWALL 

Caring for those in any sort of need through home visiting, running groups, bereavement counselling. Food bank, CAB outreach worker, Memory and Wellbeing Cafes.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board is predominantly female

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: 13 years

http://oasiscentre-cornwall.org.uk

admin@oasiscentre.plus.com

01637889682

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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
31/12/22£94£93£1n/an/an/an/an/a38
31/12/21£85£69£16n/an/an/an/an/a36
31/12/20£48£40£8n/an/an/an/an/a43
31/12/19£47£34£13n/an/an/an/an/a42
31/12/18£40£36£4£0£0£0n/a042
31/12/17£38£36£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£29£30£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£41£30£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£39£22£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£13£11£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£7£9£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£16£12£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cornwall,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 38 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Rank Foundation£35,000
National Lottery Community Fund£29,580
DCMS£6,596
Masonic Trust£6,300
Cornwall Community Foundation£6,260
Co-Operative Group£4,217
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rank Foundation - Col Core The Oasis Centre - Cornwall 2023 Part
£15,000 27/04/2023
The Oasis Centre - Cornwall received a Cost of Living Core Grant to help cover the cost of staff salaries and other core costs such as rent, food and transport.
National Lottery Community Fund - Preventing Social Isolation
£9,960 07/10/2022
The funding will be used to develop their service which support older and vulnerable people this will include taking on more volunteers use the community transport and train volunteers to take people ....more
Rank Foundation - GOLDEN AWARDS The Oasis Centre - Cornwall 2022
£20,000 23/03/2022
The Golden Award was given to The Oasis Centre to reduce Isolation and support isolated older people as they emerge from the pandemic.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Oasis Centre - Cornwall
£4,217 23/10/2021
After lockdown we are beginning to incorporate our people back into the community by encouraging them to come to groups of six, in the open but with cover, for cream teas etc.
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 02/06/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Garden Outreach
£9,960 09/04/2021
The organisation will use the funding to continue it's work caring for vulnerable people in the local area - providing hot meals and distributing a weekly mailing that includes information puzzles ....more
Cornwall Community Foundation - In response to Covid 19
£6,260 15/07/2020
12
To appoint a part time Co-Ordinator to work with selected volunteers to help people leave their homes and integrate back into the community after lockdown restrictions are eased.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£6,596 08/07/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out
£9,660 19/12/2019
14
The organisation will deliver various activities for marginalised people in the local area including wellbeing and memory cafes, lunch clubs, debt and benefit sessions, a food bank, a home visiting ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£5,800 07/10/2019
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out
£8,800 21/09/2018
12
The funding will be used to run a befriending service for people who affected by isolation. The project aims to enable them to participate in community life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Oasis Centre - Cornwall.
£3,929 29/11/2017
We need help with rent because access to premises is essential to work with seriously disadvantaged/marginalised adults in St. Columb.
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach St. Columb
£9,930 10/05/2017
12
This group will use the funding to deliver outreach services for housebound people who are living with mental health issues. People’s mental and physical health and wellbeing will be improved, as ....more
Joseph Rank Trust - The Oasis Centre, St. Columb
£30,000 04/05/2017
36
To fund the running costs of the charity
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/12/2010, number: 1139355
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

26 FORE STREET
ST. COLUMB
TR9 6RH

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF NEED, POVERTY AND SICKNESS FOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE PARISHES OF ST COLUMB, ST ERVAN, ST EVAL, ST MAWGAN AND SURROUNDING AREAS WHO ARE IN A CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP, DISTRESS, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY OR OTHER SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE

Defined Area of Benefit:

PARISHES OF ST COLUMB, ST ERVAN, ST EVAL, ST MAWGAN AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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