Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

MICAH LIVERPOOL 

Providing food banks and community shops and running employability programmes to enable people to become employed
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 8 years

www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk

paul.obrien@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk

01517027206

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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
31/12/22£482£454£28n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/21£428£450£-22n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/20£439£385£54n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/12/19£293£257£36n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/12/18£268£257£11£0£0£0n/a040
31/12/17£407£367£40£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City, Sefton,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 30 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
DCMS£40,162
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
CAF£6,240
Masonic Trust£900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£900 06/01/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£40,162 18/06/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Micah Liverpool
£6,240 17/04/2020
3
Grant to Micah Liverpool to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Micah Liverpool Community Markets
£10,000 16/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to run a community market and café for people on low incomes. The project aims to provide heavily discounted food as an alternative to using foodbanks and provide an ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/08/2016, number: 1168689
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

16 Lady Chapel Close
LIVERPOOL
L1 7BZ

Objectives

3. Objects The objects of the CIO are to assist persons experiencing poverty or social injustice in the Liverpool City Region, in particular (but not exclusively) those from underrepresented groups including Refugees, Asylum Seekers and those from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds in such ways as the Trustees from time to time think fit but in particular by:- a) Providing food and other household items through foodbanks or community marketsb) Providing advice and support to overcome financial problems and maximise their incomec) Raising public awareness of issues relating to poverty, both generally and in relation to social exclusiond) Signposting to relevant information and advisory services.e) The preservation and protection of good physical and mental health of individuals, families and the wider community of the area of benefit including the development of employability programmes to assist individuals to contribute productively to society.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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