Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 3

BUSHMEAD COMMUNITY CENTRE

Bushmead Community Hub runs the community centre in Bushmead, Luton, to save it from closure under the local authority. We hire out rooms and a hall, which are used by a diverse range of community groups., hire facilities for social bookings and work with local interest groups to support and encourage cohesion in the community. We run several groups for children and adults in the community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

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 was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 8 years

http://www.bushmeadhub.co.uk/

team@bushmeadhub.co.uk

01582422818

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£164	£231	£-66	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/22	£128	£117	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/21	£108	£71	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20	£121	£87	£34	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/19	£93	£69	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/18	£96	£61	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£1	£1	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Recreation
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Central Bedfordshire, Luton,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
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

Department for Work and Pensions	£15,525
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation	£8,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - We usually shut on a Friday afternoon so will need to have a staff member on site, which is a weekly cost of £60. We will not be taking any hirers in the room we are using as a warm Hub which would usually be an income of up to £100 per day therefore a small proportion will be used to offset this. The room will also need to be cleaned each day which is an extra 30 minutes to our cleaning budget. We will provide tea, coffee and soup, along with cold drinks and biscuits. We will also heat the room.
£1,000	20/12/2022	Bushmead Community Hub
Department for Work and Pensions - BASELINE FITNESS LIMMITED
£10,573	01/04/2022	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Bush Babies
£3,500	20/01/2022	Bush Babies- Weekly parent and baby stay and play group.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Bushmead Afternoon Club
£3,500	20/01/2022	Afternoon club to tackle isolation, loneliness and improve mental wellbeing.
Department for Work and Pensions - BASELINE FITNESS
£4,952	01/04/2021	The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Hub Manager
£10,000	13/06/2019 12	The organisation will use funding to employ an administrator to help increase the usage of the centre, help support the youth and bowls club, help manage the centre volunteers, and undertake ....more The organisation will use funding to employ an administrator to help increase the usage of the centre, help support the youth and bowls club, help manage the centre volunteers, and undertake administration tasks. The new member of staff will enable the community centre to continue with its existing opening hours and maintain the existing activities.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ABIGAIL COUPE Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: BUSHMEAD PRE- SCHOOL,

ALAN SIDNEY MASON Appointed: 2017

DAVE COUPE Appointed: 2020

JUDITH CHAPMAN Appointed: 2020

PAUL HAMMOND Appointed: 2016

SEAN MANNING Appointed: 2020

THOMAS MCKINSTERY Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/09/2016, number: 1169398

Gift Aid

NOT 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
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

7 returns made; all on time

Main office

Bushmead Community Hub
Hancock Drive
LUTON
LU2 7SF

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF BARNFIELD WARD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF AGE, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, HEALTH AND WELLBEING, AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER:TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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