Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

FISCUS NORTH LIMITED

Welfare benefits & money advice and support for people suffering crisis, hardship and distress including people experiencing poor mental health, disability, unemployment, young parents, homelessness, domestic violence, addictions and poverty. Volunteering & training, enterprise support & managed workspace. Training for frontline staff and volunteers working with people facing hardship and crisis.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£274£284£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£340£251£89n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£162£214£-52n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£279£200£79n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£371£175£196n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£174£169£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17*£176£180£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£156£180£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15*£219£219£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£413£412£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£316£315£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years
(18 years as a company)

www.fiscus.org

anitasaddington@fiscus.org

01915111391

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for addiction & substance abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Redcar And Cleveland, South Tyneside, Sunderland,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Access to Justice Foundation£411,467
DCMS£47,385
The Greggs Foundation£19,902
National Lottery Community Fund£9,983
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£3,000
Co-Operative Group£2,814
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Lives Through Advice Grant
£411,467 01/05/2024
The Improving Lives Through Advice programme is made possible by a £30 million grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. Working in partnership with the largest community funder in the UK, the Improving ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to FISCUS (North) Limited
£3,000 30/03/2023
Towards organisational charitable activities in support of fiscus north limited’s debt management, crisis relief and environmental initiatives in an area of high deprivation.
The Greggs Foundation - North East Core Funding
£19,902 26/05/2022
£19,902 over one year towards the salary of their Finance & HR Worker and utilities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to FISCUS
£2,814 23/10/2021
We would like to create a community garden and allotment to provide a safe outside place for our volunteers, service users and local residents within our community grounds.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£47,385 05/10/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19: BOGOF Emergency Crisis Kitchen
£9,983 15/05/2020
1
This project will scale up a small community kitchen to an Emergency COVID-19 commercial kitchen during the pandemic. It will provide free emergency doorstep meals on wheels service for various vulnerable groups ensuring their health and wellbeing ....more
Co-Op Foundation - STC Enhance
£33,987 06/09/2019
Enable a mapping exercise of local needs and priorities, support staff costs, and explore plans for a health and well-being space in a shipping container.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Fiscus North Limited
£115,000 22/03/2019
12
towards the purchase of the SES building in Hendon, Sunderland, for use as a community and social enterprise centre
National Lottery Community Fund - Bundles for Babies
£9,884 24/01/2019
12
The project will use funding to develop a new community Baby Bank to reduce child poverty, and support families with babies and toddlers in need. The service will include recycling donated essentials, weekly peer support, talks and presentations, ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£5,000 22/10/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - My Sister's Kitchen @The SAFE Project
£5,000 03/07/2018
12
The group will increase the crisis support services offered at their community kitchen premises. This will provide help to those facing crisis, and post-crisis support for people who are disabled, lonely and people with mental health issues.
National Lottery Community Fund - My Sister's Kitchen
£9,848 22/03/2017
12
The project will install new kitchen and heating facilities in their new premises. They will provide twice weekly independent living skills taster sessions, and develop their new premises into an accessible community hub providing multiple support ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunderland ACES - SAFE Project
£494,510 03/03/2016
60
This project aims to provide access to crisis support, specialist advice and foodbanks. The project will target vulnerable people who are living in or leaving care or supported accommodation, are disabled, suffering mental ill health, alcohol or ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunderland Aces
£343,718 24/05/2013
16
This new project will complement and enhance existing provision by developing a new collaborative partnership vehicle, 'Sunderland ACES' to deliver specialist, coordinated City-wide advice among all partners. Volunteers and this new specialist ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 41-68
  • ANDREW MCGILL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Welfare Support Adviser
  • DALE WATSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Youth Worker
  • LINDA ROBSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director
  • LINDA ROSE RUTTER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Social Enterprise Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/04/2013, number: 1151656
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/12/2005, number: 05653946
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • 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; AR17: 27 days late, AR15: 1 days late,
Main office

Fiscus
The Co-op Centre
Whitehouse Road
Hendon
Sunderland
SR2 8AH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO:(A) RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROVIDING AND PROMOTING THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ADVICE,INFORMATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO PERSONS LIVING AND WORKING IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND(THE AREA OF BENEFIT)WHO ARE IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, AND; (B) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS IN THE AREAS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, TRAINING AND DEBT MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE, SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER EQUIPPED TO HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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