Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

THE CINNAMON NETWORK

Cinnamon Network works closely with churches across the UK and Ireland to help them transform their communities.We describe ourselves as faith-based but not faith-biased. We serve people of all faiths and none.Our work revolves around three key objectives - incubation, influence and impact.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity only provides its support via other charities
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • 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£467£489£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£582£658£-76£97£205£571120
31/03/21£821£684£137£110£281£-18-0.3140
31/03/20£815£777£38£95£144£-174-2.7150
31/03/19£840£1,056£-216£216£106£-113-1.3180
31/03/18*£1,157£1,106£51£249£322£50.180
31/03/17*£1,092£1,073£19£152£271£190.200
31/03/16?*£904£621£283£80£252£-54-100
30/06/15£507£538£-31£175£-31£-57-1.300

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

www.cinnamonnetwork.co.uk

team@cinnamonnetwork.co.uk

02922741174

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£199,660
City Bridge Trust£175,000
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£51,693
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£49,900
The Bishop Radford Trust£31,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Cinnamon Network
£3,000 15/03/2024
Core costs for Infrastructure & Third Sector Support
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Cinnamon Network
£175,000 30/05/2023
60
£175,000 over five years (£45,000; £40,000; £35,000; £30,000; £25,000) as a contribution to the salary and project costs of a organisational capacity building programme for a network of London churches committed to establishing social action ....more
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Cinnamon Network - UK
£13,000 29/05/2022
Cinnamon Network works closely with churches across the UK and Ireland to help them transform their communities. This grant was specifically towards their Incubator project.
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Cinnamon Network - UK
£13,000 29/04/2022
Cinnamon Network works closely with churches across the UK and Ireland to help them transform their communities. BRT specifically supports their Incubator project.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Faith New Deal
£51,693 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
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to The Cinnamon Network
£49,900 27/01/2021
24
Project Lab 2021: Supporting churches and charities to deliver training & employment initiatives reducing family poverty.
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Cinnamon Network - UK - Covid appeal
£5,000 22/06/2020
This appeal was specifically towards supporting BAME churches and communities during the coronovirus pandemic.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to The Cinnamon Network
£49,660 29/01/2020
18
Project Lab 2020:Housing Crisis - identifying five excellent faith-based projects that are helping to tackle the UK's housing crisis for replication.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to The Cinnamon Network
£150,000 29/01/2020
36
Community Engagement support, start-up funding, and training for church social action in Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Greater London.
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Cinnamon Network
£7,000 11/07/2019
Cinnamon Network works closely with churches across the UK and Ireland to help them transform their communities.. Specifically Bishop Radforfd Trust supported the Incubator projects which works to encourage, grow and support projects which are ....more
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Cinnamon Network - UK
£5,000 05/07/2019
Cinnamon Network works closely with churches across the UK and Ireland to help them transform their communities. This grant was to support the - incubation project to nurture and support small Christian charities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Transformation Project - Phase Two
£521,560 20/06/2019
36
Community Transformation Project - Phase Two
Joseph Rank Trust - Cinnamon Network
£40,000 01/02/2019
36
To fund the costs of the charity
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to The Cinnamon Network
£90,000 17/10/2018
24
Project Lab 2019
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Cinnamon Network
£5,000 14/09/2018
Cinnamon Network works closely with churches across the UK and Ireland to help them transform their communities. The Bishop Radforfd Trust supported the Incubator projects which works to encourage, grow and support projects which are replicable.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Demand Reduction Partnership in Suffolk
£18,900 18/09/2017
8
To support five churches to start projects that address the four objectives in the Suffolk Police and Crime Plan 2017-2021.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 14/09/2017
Advisors and Champions
Robertson Trust - Cinnamon Network
£20,000 21/03/2017
Cinnamon Network
London Catalyst - The Cinnamon Network - 1
£5,000 07/02/2017
Ten Cinnamon Recognised Projects
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Transformation project
£409,850 24/02/2016
24
This is the expansion of a project supporting people and communities most in need in Sussex, Essex and Yorkshire, using local churches to deliver social action projects. An intensive programme of support and tools will be offered to 30 churches, who ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • DARREN MITCHELL Appointed: 2018
  • HEATHER RUTH KEATES OBE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Debt Adviser
  • JILLIAN MARION MORRISON Appointed: 2024
  • MARTIN WARNER (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Company Director
  • REV COLIN MARSH Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/05/2014, number: 1156985
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 2 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from AUCTIONS FOR CHRISTIAN MISSION on 17/09/2024
Main office

c/o Andy Nash Accounting & Cons.
Units 24 & 25
Goodsheds Village
Hood Road
Barry
South Gl

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT 3.1 TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS BY: SEEKING TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY THROUGH THE FACILITATION OF NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES AND THE AWARENESS OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECTS THAT SUPPORTS THOSE IN CHARITABLE NEED; PROMOTING THE EFFECTIVE USE OF THEIR RESOURCES; AND THE PROVISION OF GRANT FUNDING TO FACILITATE CHURCHES AND CHARITIES IN EFFECTING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION. 3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. 3.3. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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