Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

BIRMINGHAM PEOPLES CENTRE LIMITED 

We provide advice, information and representation to people experiencing employment problems and who are unable to access any other form of support.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • 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
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 10 years
(12 years as a company)

www.bpcentre.org.uk

trevor@bhampc.co.uk

07972437396

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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
30/04/23£46£44£2n/an/an/an/an/a6
30/04/22£60£50£10n/an/an/an/an/a9
30/04/21£82£78£5n/an/an/an/an/a9
30/04/20£44£40£5n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/04/19£31£38£-7n/an/an/an/an/a12
30/04/18£38£31£7£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/17£31£27£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/16£28£22£6£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/15£24£19£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 volunteers

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
National Lottery Community Fund£30,000
Access to Justice Foundation£27,000
DCMS£10,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
CAF£3,750
Alex Ferry Foundation£2,500
Heart Of England Community Foundation£1,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
£2,500 20/03/2023
community grant
National Lottery Community Fund - Employment Tribunal Support Project
£10,000 22/04/2022
The funding will be used to provide a continued casework service to assist clients to make a claim to the employment tribunal when it has not been possible to resolve the problem by negotiation and ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 08/02/2022
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - Employment rights
£10,000 11/02/2021
11
The funding will be used to cover staffing costs and facilities costs and charges. The project offers advice to the local community regarding employments rights casework and representation to ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£27,000 28/09/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
CAF - Grant to Birmingham Peoples Centre Ltd
£3,750 26/06/2020
3
Grant to Birmingham Peoples Centre Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 16/06/2020
"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
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Peoples Centre
£1,500 24/04/2020
They have seen an increased demand for their employment advice services from people affected by the current crisis. They will be able to help with professional, accurate advice and support for those ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Employment rights drop-in clinic
£10,000 10/05/2019
12
This funding will be used to employ a counsellor to improve the employment advice services available to the community.
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£4,000 14/02/2019
towards training resources for this charity providing free employment rights advice, information and representation
National Lottery Community Fund - Helping People to Help Themselves
£10,000 14/03/2018
12
This group will provide support to people who wish to pursue an employment tribunal claim. This will be done through online resource and face to face support and will give people the confidence to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - People helping people - volunteer employment rights advice project
£10,000 16/11/2016
12
The project will use the funding to train volunteers and provide them with support to enable them to advise local people who are on a low income of their employment rights. This will support the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Disciplinary and grievance hearing project
£10,000 29/07/2015
12
A project to support and assist people in need of advice regarding employments rights. This will give beneficiaries the required skills, support and confidence when dealing with employment issues.
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting employment rights project
£10,000 30/01/2014
12
This is a project by a community organisation in Birmingham. The group will use the funding to coordinate and support voluntary sector advice services to raise awareness of employment rights issues ....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: 60-71
  • STEPHEN BROWN (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Trade Union Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/06/2014, number: 1157384
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/04/2012, number: 08021913
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

1 Willincroft Cottages
Pinvin
PERSHORE
Worcestershire
WR10 2LB

Objectives

1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN BIRMINGHAM BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE, INFORMATION, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT.2) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN BIRMINGHAM IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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