Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

GATEWAY CHURCH (KENDAL) 

The promotion of the Christian faith in Kendal and its surrounding areas. The charity was established for Christian worship, prayer, Bible teaching and preaching of the Christian gospel. We seek to serve the local community by providing a place of prayer and worship, Meeting needs of the community and helping individuals in need.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

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

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
31/12/23£60£57£4n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/22£63£49£14n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/12/21£31£27£4n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/12/20£50£32£18n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/12/19*£40£21£18n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/18£10£2£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£31£30£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

www.gatewaychurchkendal.org

jgios@me.com

01539732002

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 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£9,810
Cumbria Community Foundation£6,700
The Bishop Radford Trust£1,050
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Gateway Church
£1,050 29/04/2022
Community engagement / development - football hoiday club, post covid memory makign trip for families in UDA.
National Lottery Community Fund - Neighbourhood Chaplain project - COVID-19 response
£9,810 22/05/2020
3
The funding will be used to develop an online community hub working with local organisations to provide a one-stop place where residents can access a range of online support services to help address ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Staff, volunteer training, advertising costs
£6,700 13/05/2020
6
Staff, volunteer training, advertising costs

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/10/2016, number: 1169843
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR19: 17 days late,
Main office

Office 4
South Lakes Foyer
Yard 95
Stricklandgate
KENDAL
Cumbria

Objectives

The prevention or relief of poverty, the advancement of the Christian faith, the advancement of citizenship or community development

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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