Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

ACTIVLIVES 

To provide services in Suffolk that engage and support individuals, families, family carers, and communities to improve, maintain and sustain good health and well-being, particularly focusing in areas of deprivation and people mainly aged 45 years and over.
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 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.activlives.org.uk

cynthia@activlives.org.uk

01473345350

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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£370£402£-31n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/22£430£395£35n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/21£374£266£108n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/20£437£345£92n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/19£353£391£-38n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/03/18£427£420£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£388£376£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£417£383£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£286£285£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£180£234£-54£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£192£187£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 60 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 services
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,

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£240,000
Suffolk Community Foundation£124,837
Henry Smith Charity£94,100
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Cheshire Community Foundation£4,520
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to ActivLives
£94,100 08/02/2023
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Grow Your Future' project providing community garden-based training for people from disadvantaged communities in Ipswich, Suffolk.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Chantry Walled Garden
£2,000 25/06/2021
Carry on Gardening for older people at ActivGardens.
Suffolk Community Foundation - ActivGardens - community volunteering and outdoor learning
£4,000 13/05/2021
11
Towards core costs for the ActivGardens project for a year.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 01/04/2021
ActivGardens
Suffolk Community Foundation - ActivSport
£4,455 27/03/2021
8
To run the ActivSport project for 2 months (Covid compliant).
Suffolk Community Foundation - ActivGardens - community volunteering and outdoor learning
£6,000 25/03/2021
11
Towards core costs for the ActivGardens project for a year.
National Lottery Community Fund - The People's Community Garden project
£10,000 25/02/2021
11
The funding will be used to provide volunteering opportunities and outdoor learning for local people at the community garden. The project aims to bring people together and improve their health and ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - ActivLives - Supporting our Members and Volunteers
£6,285 12/02/2021
2
Supporting ActivLives' Members and Volunteers during lockdown.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Connect for Health
£2,600 16/12/2020
11
To support Social Prescribing.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Better Balance Exercise Classes
£4,520 04/11/2020
1. ActivLives provides a weekly programme of around 30 different activities for older people, including adapted sports sessions, Better Balance exercise classes, health walks, lunch clubs, singing ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - ActivSport
£4,860 04/09/2020
2
The delivery of the ActivSport project during Covid 19.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to ActivLives
£5,000 05/08/2020
11
To support those who are referred from Connect for Health (Social Prescribing).
Suffolk Community Foundation - ActivLives Songbird Project
£4,659 10/07/2020
4
Supporting the ActivLives Songbird Project.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£3,500 09/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Elderflower Hub
£16,020 27/05/2020
11
To support the Elderflower Carers Hub.
Suffolk Community Foundation - ActivGardens - Core Funding
£5,000 15/05/2020
2
To pay core salary costs for the ActivGardens project which is still operating with strict social distancing being followed due to Covid 19 restrictions.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Activ@Home
£4,278 07/04/2020
3
Towards the change of delivery of Activlives projects for vulnerable and elderly members of society. These will now be provided online or by phone. Covid19
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grow Your Community
£5,000 21/11/2019
12
To support the "Grow Your Community" Project.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Bridging the Gap
£49,680 31/10/2019
16
Towards the 'Bridging Gap' project, engaging with people with mental health issues and dementia at the Woodlands, Ipswich Hospital.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grow Your Skills
£5,000 22/10/2019
12
To support the Grow Your Skills Project.
National Lottery Community Fund - ActivLives
£230,000 30/05/2019
48
This organisation works in Ipswich and across Suffolk to keep people active and connected to their local community through accessible sports and exercise, learning new skills and volunteering ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Elderflower Carers Hub
£19,976 26/03/2019
11
Towards the Elderflower Carers Hub.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Salary costs for project manager
£9,970 25/03/2019
12
One year's salary costs of Everyday Activ-lpswich Manager for a project to engage older people with disabilities in sports and activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Everyday Activ- Keep on Moving Project
£9,990 14/03/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to provide more sessions and activities for older people in the area in order to improve health and wellbeing.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 08/03/2019
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to ActivLives
£9,970 28/02/2019
12
towards one year's salary of the Everyday Activ-Ipswich Manager for a project designed to engage older people with disabilities in sports and activities
Suffolk Community Foundation - Carry on Gardening!
£5,000 24/01/2019
11
Towards maintaining and developing the Carry on Gardening project for older people.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Carry on Gardening!
£3,760 22/01/2019
11
To enable ActivLives to continue to run their 'Carry on Gardening' project for older people in Ipswich.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grow Your Skills
£5,000 03/10/2018
11
Towards the costs of Grow Your Skills project, providing learning, training and work experience programme in a garden/plant nursery for hard to reach young people.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Debenham and Eye ActivHubs
£2,524 09/08/2018
11
Towards venue hire and the cost of staff involved with ActivLives ActivHubs in Eye and Debenham.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Wild About Community
£5,000 23/04/2018
12
To involve young people experiencing multiple disadvantage in learning about environmental conservation and planting up the community gardens, their schools, local green spaces, and gardens, ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Carry on Gardening!
£3,000 05/02/2018
11
Towards the Carry on Gardening project.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grow Your Community - Sudbury
£5,850 30/01/2018
11
For a Community Bloom project in Sudbury.
Power to Change - ActivLives
£4,913 01/01/2018
Grant to ActivLives
Suffolk Community Foundation - Stowmarket ActivHub
£4,463 13/11/2017
11
Towards staffing costs with development work and also the hiring costs of the venue for ActivLives weekly New Age Kurling group.
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Skills Exchange
£10,000 23/11/2016
12
This project will establish a skills exchange for local disadvantaged women. This will improve skills, confidence and self-esteem, which will increase employment opportunities.
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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: 34-62
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/06/2012, number: 1147615
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2011, number: 07672809
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from IPSWICH AND DISTRICT STROKE CLUB on 03/11/2021
Main office

BRIGHTSPACE
160 HADLEIGH ROAD
IPSWICH
SUFFOLK
IP2 0HH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND MAINTAIN THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, CARERS AND COMMUNITIES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES, ACTIVITIES, HEALTH PROMOTION, RESPITE, EDUCATION/TRAINING AND PRACTICAL ADVICE, PARTICULARLY FOCUSING IN AREAS OF DEPRIVATION AND PEOPLE AGED MAINLY 45 YEARS AND OVER.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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