Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 9

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 13

BANANA ENTERPRISE NETWORK LIMITED

PROVIDING GOODS OR SERVICES RELATED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUSINESSES IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN BE EMPLOYED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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 age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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 and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 9 years

07775066130

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/03/23		£37	£75	£-38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/22		£155	£148	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/21		£75	£74	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/20		£49	£49	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£75	£58	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/18		£88	£80	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£97	£68	£29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£29	£28	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
15 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 Heritage Fund	£99,600
National Lottery Community Fund	£29,988
DCMS	£9,998
Architectural Heritage Fund	£7,500
Forever Manchester	£4,223
CAF	£4,000
Co-Operative Group	£1,498
Woodward Charitable Trust	£750

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer play scheme
£750	05/06/2023	Summer Play Scheme
National Lottery Community Fund - Adventure Rocks
£9,999	25/11/2022	The funding will be used to deliver a programme of outdoor activities for low income families single parents and older people. The activities will include bushcraft heritage themed walks community ....more The funding will be used to deliver a programme of outdoor activities for low income families single parents and older people. The activities will include bushcraft heritage themed walks community picnics litter picking and archery. The project aims to improve health and wellbeing build confidence and develop skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Nature Rocks!
£9,999	12/11/2021	The funding will be used to deliver a series of outdoor activities to include forest school sessions themed quiz walks puppet skills and wildflower planting for low or no income families single ....more The funding will be used to deliver a series of outdoor activities to include forest school sessions themed quiz walks puppet skills and wildflower planting for low or no income families single parents and those who are home schooled. The aim of the project is to promote positive mental wellbeing across the community.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Banana Enterprise Network
£1,498	23/10/2021	We help unemployed, low-income and single-parent families to bounce back from the COVID-19 crisis by helping to create positive steps towards work, self-employment or further training.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Banana Enterprise Network
£99,600	19/03/2021	NL20: Rock Hall - Saving Farnworth's Paper Making Heritage
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to Banana Enterprise Network
£7,500	18/08/2020	Rock Hall
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,998	14/08/2020	"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 "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 services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Forever Manchester - Banana Cares
£4,223	29/05/2020	Care packages and telephone budgeting and financial advice
CAF - Grant to Banana Enterprise Network
£4,000	07/05/2020 3	Grant to Banana Enterprise Network to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Enterprising Me
£9,990	23/03/2020 6	The organisation will provide enterprise support for low income families who want to explore the idea of self-employment, with the aim of improving employment opportunities and increase confidence ....more The organisation will provide enterprise support for low income families who want to explore the idea of self-employment, with the aim of improving employment opportunities and increase confidence and self esteem.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Banana Enterprise Network
£11,305	19/11/2018	We want to create two part time Community Enterprise Champions who will train as tutors and provide support to clients for one year.
National Lottery Community Fund - Prime Time for Enterprise
£9,998	21/03/2018 12	This group will use the funding to provide self-employment training and support to unemployed people over 50 in the local area, with the aim of reducing unemployment and improving opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Skills4Enterprise
£10,000	05/10/2016 12	The organisation will develop their pilot project for people who want to become self-employed by running one-to-one support sessions. The sessions will build confidence, business-related skills and ....more The organisation will develop their pilot project for people who want to become self-employed by running one-to-one support sessions. The sessions will build confidence, business-related skills and provide access to a peer support network offering business advice and support. This will equip people with the skills and information they need to assess the viability of becoming self-employed and give them the skills to improve those chances.
National Lottery Community Fund - First Steps to self employment
£10,000	20/05/2015 12	The organisation will use the funding to run pre-self employed focused training, advice, guidance and support and community engagement activities for people who are claiming benefits or wanting to ....more The organisation will use the funding to run pre-self employed focused training, advice, guidance and support and community engagement activities for people who are claiming benefits or wanting to move in to self employment in the Wigan area. This will remove barriers to employment, develop business skills and provide support to improve the chances of success of people becoming self employed.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 48-76

BARBARA GOULDING Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

KENNETH JOHN MORTON Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Management Consultant

NICHOLAS TYLDESLEY Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Educational Consultant (Retired)

NORMA LEE (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

PHILIP JOHN RICHARDSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Archaeologist

SUSAN JANET KANEEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hair Stylist

WILFRED WILLIAM SAMUEL ADDISON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Engineer (Retired)

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/04/2015, number: 1161408
Registered at Companies House on 16/07/2014, number: 09133991

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
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

8 returns made; AR16: 0 days late,

Main office

14 REEDLEY DRIVE
WORSLEY
MANCHESTER
M28 7XR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND OTHER SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME.2. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT.3. THE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF ROCK HALL FARNWORTH, A GRADE II LISTED BUILDING AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE THAT EXISTS IN AND AROUND THE SAID BUILDING.4. SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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