Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

CARING FOR GOD'S ACRE

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE CONSERVATION, ENHANCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF THE NATURAL AND BUILT FEATURES OF CHURCHYARDS AND BURIAL GROUNDS
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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
30/04/23£315£279£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/22£268£251£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/21£228£190£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/20£241£235£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/19£206£214£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/18£56£106£-50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/17£115£137£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/16£251£156£95n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/04/15£131£130£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk

info@cfga.org.uk

01588 673041

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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 Heritage Fund£289,706
John Ellerman Foundation£128,500
DCMS£86,316
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£28,236
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£7,586
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Ellerman Foundation - 40% of our core running costs. Core Staff salary plus office running costs.
£128,500 27/07/2023
40% of our core running costs. Core Staff salary plus office running costs.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Caring For God's Acre
£249,206 22/06/2023
Our Digital Ancestors
DCMS - Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Grounds
£12,551 01/04/2022
Training to burial ground managers and local volunteers in identifying, recording and assessing the condition of monuments.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - NEIRF2005CLAIM1 CARING FOR GODS ACRE
£1,183 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - NEIRF2005CLAIM2 CARING FOR GODS ACRE
£1,183 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - NEIRF2005CLAIM3 Caring for God's Acre
£25,870 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will ....more
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Faith New Deal
£7,586 01/04/2022
The Faith New Deal Pilot Fund will provide £1.427m (alongside the wider National Faith & Hate Crime portfolio of projects) to test a Faith New Deal
DCMS - GRCF2021 - Opening The Ark
£60,350 21/06/2021
Opening the Ark is a new project aimed at increasing and dispersing the rich biodiversity found in churchyards and cemeteries out into the locality through engaging community volunteers. Our project will meet all three key themes of GRCF (nature ....more
DCMS - Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Grounds
£10,263 01/04/2021
Training to burial ground managers and local volunteers in identifying, recording and assessing the condition of monuments.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 25/09/2020
Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Grounds
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Caring for God's Acre
£40,500 15/09/2020
COVID19 Caring for God's Acre
DCMS - ALB-Historic England - Caring for God's Acres - Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Grounds
£3,152 01/04/2020
Training to burial ground managers and local volunteers in identifying, recording and assessing the condition of monuments.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Caring For God's Acre
£8,900 27/06/2019
Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Grounds
£10,963 01/04/2019
Training to burial ground managers and local volunteers in identifying, recording and assessing the condition of monuments.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Caring For God's Acre
£661,136 26/07/2016
The Beautiful Burial Ground 2
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ALEXANDER PAUL GLANVILLE Appointed: 2018
  • COLIN FENN Appointed: 2023
  • CATHERINE MACCARTHY (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • JUDITH LEIGH Appointed: 2015
  • MISS ANNI HOLDEN Appointed: 2014
  • RICHARD OLIVER GOODE Appointed: 2014
  • REV DAVID PRIMROSE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Minister Of Religion
  • SIMON COOTER Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/01/2014, number: 1155536
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE PATSY WOOD TRUST on 29/10/2024
Main office

Caring for Gods Acre
Unit 11
Drovers House
The Auction Yard
Craven Arms
SY7 9BZ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE CONSERVATION, ENHANCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF THE NATURAL AND BUILT FEATURES OF CHURCHYARDS AND BURIAL GROUNDS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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