Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

ALICE (RELIEF OF POVERTY & ADVANCEMENT OF COMMUNITY) 

To support vulnerable families within the communities of Stoke-On-Trent and Newcastle-Under-Lyme with the right things, at the right time, in the right way, when no-one else can.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • There was a deficit on unrestricted reserves of £99,363 at the last year end after deducting the value of own use assets
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 12 years

www.alicecharity.org

heather.sheldon@alicecharity.org

01782 614 838

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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
28/02/23*£603£726£-123£5£93£-99-1.6195
28/02/22£612£640£-28£18£216£1001.91810
28/02/21£642£434£208£12£244£1333.71315
29/02/20£256£231£25n/an/an/an/an/a23
28/02/19£161£158£3n/an/an/an/an/a24
28/02/18£148£157£-9£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/17£134£134£-1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/16£96£80£16£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/15£39£38£1£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/14*£21£22£0£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/13£10£10£0£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 76%
Liabilities/Income: 49%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: -107%
Reserves/Spending: -1.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 19 employees
  • 5 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£215,152
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£87,000
DCMS£45,815
Garfield Weston Foundation£35,000
BBC Children in Need£30,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£19,700
Co-Operative Group£18,930
The Fore£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Alice Charity
£2,511 21/10/2023
Open weekdays 11am–1pm, People's Pantry provides a three-day supply of food and toiletries to local families. This emergency service cannot continue without your help towards running costs and food.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 14/10/2022
Lean In: Support for families living in poverty and deprivation in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme
National Lottery Community Fund - The Junction community cafe
£9,974 01/07/2022
The funding will be used to open a community café to be run by young people on the margins of society with special educational needs disabilities and learning difficulties. Funding will be used to ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Alice (Relief of Poverty and Advancement of Community) - 24/03/22
£2,000 07/04/2022
Core Funding
Smallwood Trust - Funding for distribution as grants to individuals
£8,500 16/12/2021
This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual ....more
The Fore - Grant to Alice (Relief of Poverty & Advancement of Community)
£15,000 11/11/2021
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Alice is a local charity which suports children and families, in times of crisis, within the communities of Stoke-On-Trent and Newcastle-Under-Lyme. Alice is using funding from The Fore to employ a ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Alice Charity
£2,518 23/10/2021
We would fund our six parent and toddler Big Cup playgroups that give children, aged 0-4, and their parents or carers, who are living in poverty, a safe space to play, explore, learn and make friends.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Alice Charity
£1,113 23/10/2021
We'd like funding for our six Parent and Toddler Big Cup play groups, that give poverty-stricken children aged 0-4 and their parents/carers a safe space to play, explore, learn and make friends.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Alice Charity
£843 23/10/2021
We would like to continue to run our six parent and toddler Big Cup playgroups. These give children living in poverty and their parents or carers a safe space to play, explore, learn and make friends.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Alice Charity
£2,324 23/10/2021
We would like to continue to run our six parent and toddler Big Cup playgroups. These give children living in poverty and their parents or carers a safe space to play, explore, learn and make friends.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Alice (Relief of Poverty and Advancement of Community)
£5,000 23/09/2021
Lean In – Family Support project
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Alice (Relief of Poverty and Advancement of Community)
£10,000 28/07/2021
The project is to enhance the services around a Dad Community to support single Dads, many of whom have had little or no contact with their children, by providing weekly 121 support sessions with a ....more
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Alice (Relief of Poverty & Advancement of Communit
£87,000 23/06/2021
48% of salaries and running costs over 3-years for parent-and-toddler groups to improve parenting skills in the most disadvantaged communities of Stoke-On-Trent.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Alice (Relief of Poverty and Advancement of Community) - 22/03/21
£1,250 13/04/2021
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving IT Infrastructure
£9,998 09/04/2021
The funding will be used to make IT infrastructure changes to a new building purchased so that the project is able to increase the capacity of people that they support.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/12/2020
LEAN IN FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£45,815 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
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Alice (Relief of Poverty and Advancement of Community)
£19,700 26/06/2020
12
Personal Livery Giving Award 2020 (unrestricted)
CAF - Grant to Alice (Relief of Poverty & Advancement of Community)
£3,500 05/06/2020
3
Grant to Alice (Relief of Poverty & Advancement of Community) to support the organisation through COVID19
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Alice (Relief of poverty and advancement of community)
£30,000 20/03/2020
36
This project runs play groups for under 4's in deprived areas of Stoke on Trent providing fun activities and social time. Children will be less isolated, grow in confidence and make friends.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Cup Burslem
£3,612 15/11/2019
Our free 'Big Cup' baby and toddler groups reduce isolation by helping parents form friendship groups within their own communities.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Alice (Relief of Poverty & Advancement of Community)
£2,925 15/11/2019
We want to set up more free 'Big Cup' baby and toddler groups, to help reduce isolation for parents in our local communities.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Cup Silverdale
£3,084 15/11/2019
Our free 'Big Cup' baby and toddler groups reduce isolation by helping parents form friendship groups within their own communities.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards core costs for support service
£500 15/11/2019
Towards core costs for their support service.
National Lottery Community Fund - Project Greenhouse
£185,430 27/09/2019
35
This project will enable the charity to build on its range of family support activities available to parents living in challenging circumstances. There will be more training for volunteer family ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Big Cup Community Baby & Toddler Groups
£9,750 08/08/2019
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The funding will be used to continue delivering baby and toddler groups. The project aims to combat social isolation for parents and share experiences.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Training costs for family support workers
£500 02/04/2019
Towards training costs for family support workers.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Alice Charity supporting families in Stoke-on-Trent
£5,394 19/11/2018
We need funds to help disadvantaged families turn a house into a home. Money will be spent on van hire and funding for white goods.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£4,587 22/10/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
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How is it governed?

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

Age Range of Trustees: 34-60
  • AMY WILDE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Snr Property Lawyer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/07/2012, number: 1148385
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/02/2011, number: 07514119
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
  • 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; AR23: 11 days late, AR14: 1 days late,
Main office

Unit 19
Whieldon Road Industrial Estate
Fenton
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST4 4JP

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:1. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF STOKE-ON-TRENT AND NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY OF THOSE IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY RUNNING A NETWORK OF CENTRES GIVING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE.

Data Sources

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