Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

AIMING HIGHER FOR THE DISABLED COMMUNITY 

Provide support for families caring for disabled children and young people.Provide social and leisure activities for these families.Work with local businesses and organisation to ensure fully inclusive access.Building a network of families, a community hub so families can access information and mutual support from one another.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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£309£283£27n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£210£305£-95n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£380£345£35n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/20£319£306£13n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/19£177£164£13n/an/an/an/an/a47
31/03/18£129£150£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£166£149£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£122£122£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£87£74£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£104£119£-15£0£0£0n/a00
04/04/13£192£175£17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.aiminghighercharity.org.uk

info@aiminghighercharity.org.uk

01253206447

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Blackpool, Lancashire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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
National Lottery Community Fund£298,294
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£100,000
DCMS£37,668
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
BBC Children in Need£10,016
True Colours Trust£9,059
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Aiming Higher Adventurers
£2,129 22/10/2022
We aim to provide trips and activities once a month for disabled children and their families over a 12-month period, with an idea to improve overall mental wellbeing and feelings of isolation.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Aiming Higher for the Disabled Community
£1,434 29/04/2022
towards programme costs to deliver a day trip for disabled children and their families in Blackpool, the most deprived area in England.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Aiming Higher for the Disabled Community
£100,000 28/04/2022
23% of core costs over 3-years to provide family support services to families with a disabled child in Blackpool.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 11/02/2022
Reaching Resilience Project
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Aiming Higher
£2,070 27/01/2022
purchase of a Smart Board for a charity supporting young people with disabilities in Lancashire
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Resilience Project
£298,294 20/10/2021
Aiming Higher for the Disabled Community supports children with disabilities and their families. Based in Blackpool they support beneficiaries from Blackpool Wyre and Fylde. Funding for the group ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Aiming Higher for the disabled community
£7,016 30/11/2020
This project will deliver technology, craft materials and resources to enable disabled children and young people to join in activities from home while social distancing, leading to improved mental ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£34,668 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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Aiming Higher for the disabled community
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund personalised activity packs and online music sessions for disabled children and young people living in Blackpool who are isolated due to Covid-19. This will improve ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 01/06/2020
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
True Colours Trust - Towards water therapy sessions for disabled children and their families
£9,059 18/03/2020
Towards water therapy sessions for disabled children and their families
National Lottery Community Fund - Transformation Project
£495,118 31/05/2018
36
The project will develop a Family Support Team to work with disabled children and their families in Blackpool. They will offer a range of activities at their specialist multi-sensory and soft play ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Education for all Project
£9,952 18/10/2017
12
The funding will be used to provide information, guidance, workshops and support to parents who have or are considering removing their children from school. The project aims to equip parents with the ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 26/09/2017
Resilience and well-being for the disabled community
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/11/2011, number: 1144664
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
11 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
Main office

231-233 Church Street
BLACKPOOL
FY1 3PB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILY AND CARERS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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