Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

TANG HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE

To maintain and manage the Community Centre, to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Tang Hall, in a common effort to advance education and wellbeing. Provides facilities in the interests of social welfare, for recreational and leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently
  • 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
31/03/23£106£108£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£136£138£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£182£134£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£128£106£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£139£185£-46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£202£160£42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£79£99£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£74£59£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£64£81£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years

www.THCCentre.co.uk

info@THCCentre.co.uk

01904 431 492

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Village halls & community buildings
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of York,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£18,967
DCMS£16,300
Two Ridings Community Foundation£12,800
Co-Operative Group£8,729
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust£3,735
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tang Hall Community Centre
£3,391 21/10/2023
We would like to install solar panels at the centre to off-set the sharp rise in energy bills. We aim to avoid the need to reduce the support we provide just to meet our utility costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Canteen
£9,592 16/06/2023
The funding will be use to offer weekly hot meals and social activities to local families experiencing poverty. The project aims to provide support to families who are struggling as a result of the cost of living crisis.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Grant to Tang Hall Community Centre
£2,000 12/12/2022
Funding will be used to purchase food in order to provide hot meals for up to 50 people a week. This will be aimed at those most in need of support and socially isolated.
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Ensuring no child goes hungry - tackling food poverty
£1,800 19/07/2022
Funding to provide weekly food parcels for 20 famillies living in poverty. Throughout the school holidays famillies struggle even more and this will go a long way to supporting them.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tang Hall Community Centre
£5,338 23/10/2021
We would like to upgrade our lighting to renewable energy. The money we'd save would go to our community cafes and food co-operative, and help us to feed more vulnerable people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Save our Food Hub!
£9,375 15/10/2021
The funding will be used to continue providing a food hub to people in the community particularly older people and people who face isolation. The project aims to offer a place to have food connect with their community offering a much needed ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Tang Hall Community Centre
£1,000 02/03/2021
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 30/09/2020
towards upgrading and installing new kitchen equipment to support the delivery of their isolation food club which has been operating throughout the pandemic (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£16,300 17/07/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£7,000 17/06/2020
Funding to cover staff wage for a year (Community Fundraising and Marketing Officer: JD = "securing funding for the centre"). Group are reliant on activities income which has been eliminated due to Covid-19 and are now reliant upon grants ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£2,000 02/04/2020
Covid-19. Funding to deliver food and medicines to vulnerable people, and to contribute towards running costs.
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - A Good Life
£3,735 25/02/2020
To develop the growing group established as part of the Food Co-op, involving professional support and advice from commercial growers
National Lottery Community Fund - Grow Tang Hall
£10,000 18/04/2019
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funding will allow the group to deliver a series of plant and growing based sessions for the local community. This project will educate its beneficiaries on the benefits of growing your own vegetables and on seasonal cooking, whilst also bringing ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Plant Tang Hall
£9,664 17/05/2018
To fund a community-led food growing group, who will meet and grow food together in their allotment and at the growing beds at the Centre
People's Health Trust - Tang Hall Food Co-Operative
£37,000 22/02/2018
This two-year project provided a food cooperative to local people in Tang Hall in York. The project used food to deepen community connections, expand social circles and enable skill sharing. It involved residents growing food together, establishing ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tang Hall Community Centre
£3,385 04/08/2017
Public toilets will help elderly people, disabled people, people with carers, women and children all enjoy our activities.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • BARRY BOTHAMLEY Appointed: 2013
  • BERNADETTE OXBERRY Appointed: 2022
  • CLAIRE DOUGLAS (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • JACQUELINE EVANS Appointed: 2018
  • JANICE GRAY Appointed: 2022
  • KAYLEIGH OLIVER Appointed: 2022
  • ROBERT WEBB Appointed: 2018
  • VALERIA GOROG Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/01/2014, number: 1155478
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
9 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
Main office

TANG HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE
YORK
YO31 0UG

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF TANG HALL WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.2. TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE COMMUNITY CENTRE (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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