Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

PRECIOUS GEMS

Precious Gems is actively involved in building the capacity of women and young people, by identifying their gifts and talents and utilising these gifts and talents to enable them meet their identified social, economic, mental and environmental needs in their community. We operate in the United Kingdom and through our partner organisations outside the United Kingdom.
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£100£100£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22?£102£85£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/21£73£72£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
29/02/20*£54£39£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/19?£51£35£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/17£7£11£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/16£21£12£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

www.preciousgems.org.uk

enquiry@preciousgems.org.uk

07426918206

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Ghana, Manchester City, Nigeria, Rwanda, Salford City, Scotland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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£164,792
Smallwood Trust£60,000
Forever Manchester£27,021
Bolton CVS£12,028
Sport England£10,000
DCMS£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Smallwood Trust - Protecting frontline services for women 18+
£60,000 25/04/2024
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Frontline organisations led by women, to protect essential services for women most impacted by the cost-of-living-crisis.
Forever Manchester - BREATHE BETTER AIR
£5,000 07/08/2023
Clean air project to raise awareness and run workshops in the community.
Sport England - Go Dance Project
£10,000 23/06/2023
This project will deliver 2 x 10 week creative dance sessions for African women who are either asylum seekers, refugees or migrants in Bolton.
National Lottery Community Fund - ACE- QUEEN'S HAT
£10,000 08/04/2022
This project will celebrate the Jubilee by running a project that will allow women and young girls to share skills and deliver a reuse of textile project. People will bring unwanted clothes set for landfill and on a weekly basis will share skills ....more
Forever Manchester - Stitch photographs together Project
£10,000 24/03/2022
Community and artist Jubilee project
National Lottery Community Fund - CLASH - Connect Leadership Active Skills and Health
£134,853 18/03/2022
Funding for the group will enable them years to continue delivering their CLASH programme with women across Bolton to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The group provide a wide range of activities that supports women to stay connected with ....more
Forever Manchester - Dancing for mind
£2,021 12/05/2021
Weekly Dance classes for young people from BAME backgrounds
National Lottery Community Fund - Body and Mind connected
£10,000 07/05/2021
The funding will be used to deliver health and wellbeing sessions for BAME women and young girls who are living with mental health issues and some are victims of domestic abuse and violence. The project aims to build their confidence and wellbeing ....more
Bolton CVS - Grant to Precious Gems
£12,028 10/01/2021
To continue the work of six drop in groups supporting women with or at risk of mental health problems.
Forever Manchester - Financial Wellbeing
£5,000 28/08/2020
Reducing social isolation amongst older women
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 28/08/2020
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 and small organisations who can provide an ....more
Forever Manchester - COVID-19 PG Support
£5,000 01/05/2020
Online group support and food delivery for those struggling in isolation
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Precious Gems Support
£9,939 22/04/2020
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The funding will be used to continue supporting older women to remain physically and mentally active and to remain connected throughout the Covid-19 crisis by creating online groups. Volunteers will also make regular telephone calls to the women and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Women Empowerment
£10,000 04/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to support older women with a variety of weekly activities to improve physical and mental health and reduce loneliness..
National Lottery Community Fund - Create and Craft
£9,978 22/11/2017
12
The organisation will deliver weekly craft based activity sessions for socially isolated older people and expand the range of activities to include gentle exercise classes. These will maintain the skills and engagement of the participants, improve ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • DR OBOH COLLINS ACHIOYAMEN Appointed: 2013
  • SUSAN RILEY Appointed: 2019
  • TONY SHEPHERD (Chair) Appointed: 2015
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/03/2015, number: 1160917
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
  • 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
7 returns made; AR20: 51 days late,
Main office

Commerce House
59 Bridgeman Place
BOLTON
BL2 1DW

Objectives

TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE CITIZENS OF BOLTON, WHO ARE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, SO AS TO ENABLE THEM BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY, LEADING TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR HEALTH AND WELL BEING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOLTON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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