Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

ST JOHN'S CENTRE 

St John's Centre has provided training/learning opportunities for over 400 individuals improving their chances for further education, paid employment, improved health and well being. and have provided 20 volunteer opportunities to gain skills and experience supporting our work. The charity supports 20 voluntary groups enabling them to carry out their own activities for community benefit .
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 age and 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
Established: 12 years

www.stjohnscentre.org

info@stjohnscentre.org

01618727795

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£238£223£15n/an/an/an/an/a65
31/03/22£214£180£34n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/21£229£188£40n/an/an/an/an/a36
31/03/20*£137£163£-26n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/19£206£181£25n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£206£181£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£199£158£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£149£139£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£119£135£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£125£131£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£107£109£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 65 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • 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
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment£124,972
DCMS£34,283
National Lottery Community Fund£12,454
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council£9,200
CAF£7,350
The Shears Foundation£5,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - St John's Centre
£5,500 12/01/2023
St John's Centre Core Project
National Lottery Community Fund - St John's Centre Stairlift
£10,000 22/07/2022
The funding will be used to install a stairlift within the community building enabling people with mobility issues to access courses events and activities a the centre with the aim of promoting ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to St Johns Ayres Rd Jubilee
£500 30/04/2022
Jubilee Street Party - activities and refreshments
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to St Johns Centre
£2,000 31/10/2021
8 week health coaching programme
National Lottery Community Fund - St John's Centre - Get Noticed
£2,454 21/05/2021
The funding will be used to replace notice boards outside the community centre to make local people more aware of the range of activities available at the hub including those responding to the ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Active Appetites 2021
£4,920 12/04/2021
A 4-week summer holiday project, five days a week, where 30 children aged 8+ eat a nutritious meal together and receive meal packs to take home.
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to St Johns Centret
£1,700 31/01/2021
Family history project - relating to family and community history through lens of migration
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,880 28/09/2020
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
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - VCFSE Digi Grant to St Johns Centre
£5,000 31/08/2020
St John’s Centre Digital Upgrade
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Creating a Sustainable Future
£97,256 27/07/2020
Support with food, benefits etc. for those in immediate need; · Volunteering based around current core volunteers; · Providing learning– this is one of our USPs, and we are currently working with ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£29,403 23/07/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to St John's Centre
£7,350 05/06/2020
3
Grant to St John's Centre to support the organisation through COVID19
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Covid19 Emegency grant
£18,096 07/04/2020
to help fund staff costs and running of the OT hub
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Holiday Hunger 2019
£4,700 25/06/2019
4 week Summer school – staff costs, activities, food
National Lottery Community Fund - St John's Centre Sitting Pretty
£7,828 11/01/2019
12
The project aims to improve the facilities within a local community centre. The funding will be used to purchase tables and chairs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 06/02/2018
St John's Centre
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to St. John's Centre
£1,990 24/06/2017
12
Two week summer school - 30 spaces each day with young people.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Epicurus Experiment - New Beginnings
£9,858 29/03/2017
Discover Manchester started 2 weeks ago, after a 6 week trial before the July summer break. It is in response to increased demand for support, staff had noted in particular, from refugees living in ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Old Trafford Youth Partnership Network
£10,914 16/03/2017
To date, our Strategic Youth Engagement Project has set up a Strategic Youth Partnership for Old Trafford to: • Bring together a wide range of statutory, voluntary and faith organisations involved ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - St John's Centre - 'Building for the Future'
£295,000 18/05/2016
36
This project will offer adult learning and crèche facilities to help local people to move toward further education, employment and volunteering. A variety of new courses will be available ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - St John’s Centre ‘Enriching Lives in our Community’
£20,000 05/11/2015
To enrich the lives of people living in Old Trafford by enabling them to: • Gain/improve skills and confidence, to help them towards employment or higher level learning; • take up volunteering ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to St John's Centre for Freespace Project
£2,980 29/06/2013
St John's Centre will provide meeting space or 'hot desk' in order to incubate voluntary groups and or small social enterprises in Old Trafford or North Trafford area just starting up or who do not ....more
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council - Voluntary Sector Grant to St John's Centre for a Course Coordinator
£5,000 29/06/2013
To fund a part time course coordinator to set up, advertise, promote and coordinate learning opportunities according to community need.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 48-84
  • DAVID NUNNS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Associate Director Of Strategy, East Cheshire Nhs
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/02/2012, number: 1146058
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/04/2011, number: 07597525
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
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR20: 78 days late,
Main office

St. Johns Centre
St. Johns Road
Old Trafford
Manchester
M16 7GX

Objectives

(1)TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF OLD TRAFFORD,MANCHESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD,WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS. (2)TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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