Overall GiG Score: 15 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

THE MERIDIAN CENTRE 

The Charity's objects are to advance education and training amongst the public, and in particular where such education and training will contribute to social cohesion and combat social exclusion
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 10 years
(19 years as a company)

www.meridiancentre.org

meridiancentre@hotmail.co.uk

07591570750

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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
05/04/23*£506£599£-93£0£737£72814.6228
05/04/22£590£585£5£0£830£75315.42212
05/04/21*£552£444£107£0£825£79021.32210
05/04/20*£498£465£33n/an/an/an/an/a10
05/04/19*£506£432£74£2£685£65618.2198
05/04/18£471£433£38£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/17£537£406£131£0£573£51715.3190
05/04/16£484£410£74£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/15*£421£407£14£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 14.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 148.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 22 employees
  • 8 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bradford City,

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
Tudor Trust£72,000
Co-Op Foundation£28,900
DCMS£12,035
National Lottery Community Fund£9,340
Leeds Community Foundation£7,332
The Clothworkers Foundation£6,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Op Foundation - Ommid Project
£9,740 13/09/2022
This project uses therapeutic sessions as a safe, non-judgemental space to support young people to process their grief and their understanding of the tensions they experience between cultural ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Manningham Celebration
£9,340 18/02/2022
The funding will be used to provide creative sessions to involve residents from diverse communities to make items to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee and to share advice on intergenerational ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Sunday 4 Learning
£7,332 17/11/2021
Sunday 4 Learning will offer 2 X 2 hour drop in sessions open to children in Primary School who are struggling to complete their homework in their home environment and access the information they ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Meridian Centre
£70,000 03/11/2021
24
over two years as continuation funding towards core salaries and running costs for a project supporting Black and Asian male survivors of sexual abuse in Bradford
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Meridian Centre
£6,500 06/01/2021
purchase IT equipment for a charity supporting disadvantaged minority community in West Yorkshire
Tudor Trust - Grant to Meridian Centre
£2,000 06/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Co-Op Foundation - #iwill Bereavement - EOI
£19,160 02/12/2020
To work with bereaved young people_x000D_ in Bradford that have been most_x000D_ affected by deaths due to Covid-19._x000D_ These young people will be trained as_x000D_ advocates for improved ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,010 07/07/2020
"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 Meridian Centre
£3,025 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund an online licence and additional staffing hours in order to support young people who have experienced sexual abuse and who isolated due to Covid-19. Young people will ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,025 20/05/2020
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
Tudor Trust - Grant to Meridian Centre
£90,000 26/11/2018
36
over three years as continuation funding towards the head of service's salary, to undertake therapeutic group work with BAME male survivors of sexual abuse in Bradford, and to support organisations ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Meridian Centre
£90,459 23/10/2018
36
This project will support boys and young men who have experience sexual abuse. It will provide a hotline and a therapeutic programme for young people who can access help, improve their mental health ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Interg8!
£9,990 28/06/2017
12
The group will offer a program of community events to introduce migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to the local community through social events, peer support and information and advice sessions. ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Meridian Centre
£100,000 09/09/2015
36
over three years towards the salary of a new part-time therapist and development funding for Breaking the Silence, a Bradford-based project supporting male victims and survivors of sexual abuse from ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Northern Lines
£197,924 24/06/2015
24
This project is to deliver a community theatre project that will focus entirely on developing social and mental wellbeing, so individuals can become integrated into the community and relieve ....more
Comic Relief - Khamoshi Ko Towrna (Breaking the Silence)
£104,916 27/05/2015
36
Since 2012 the Meridian Centre in Bradford has supported young Asian men who have been sexually abused to disclose and deal with the after-effects of abuse. Disclosure is difficult, in part because ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Northern Lines
£299,510 18/04/2012
36
This project aims to use the arts to empower socially isolated people and communities so they can build self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and overcome deprivation in health and education, intra and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-69
  • IRIS GABRIEL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Internal Verifier/Tutor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/01/2014, number: 1155297
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/04/2004, number: 05093277
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
  • 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
9 returns made; AR23: 28 days late, AR21: 3 days late, AR20: 3 days late, AR19: 5 days late, AR15: 1 days late,
Main office

ST. PAULS ROAD
Manningham
BRADFORD
West Yorkshire
BD8 7LS

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING AMONGST THE PUBLIC, AND IN PARTICULAR WHERE SUCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL COHESION AND COMBAT SOCIAL EXCLUSION

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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