Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 14

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE PARISH OF ST JOHN AND ST PAUL, WIDNES

St John's and St Paul's are Church of England churches in Widnes, Cheshire.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

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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
31/12/22		£458	£439	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/12/21		£587	£280	£307	£0	£617	£184	7.9	3	30
31/12/20		£298	£253	£45	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/12/19	*	£178	£161	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	37
31/12/18		£145	£184	£-39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	35
31/12/17		£160	£168	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years

https://www.transformwidnes.church

hello@transformwidnes.church

0151 345 0558

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Religious Activities

GiG Classification

Christian congregations

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Halton,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
50 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

Henry Smith Charity	£69,000
John Moores Foundation	£15,000
Co-Operative Group	£8,924

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Transform Widnes
£2,744	21/10/2023	We would like to invest in our community garden to produce more food for our community lunch each week. Guests can also help in the garden and learn new skills while building friendships.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Transform Widnes
£6,181	23/10/2021	Our weekly meal, Long Loaf, brings the community together over food and friendship aiming to support those in need and combat loneliness.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Transform Widnes
£69,000	17/06/2021 30	towards 30 months' salary of a Children's-Youth-Schools Worker and Operations Manager, plus leadership coaching and overheads, to embed Generations evangelism.
John Moores Foundation - Grant to St John's Parish Church Widnes
£15,000	15/04/2021	Towards an active youth engagement programme

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ADAM SOWERBY Appointed: 2022

CLARE ELAINE MOSS Appointed: 2022

FELICITY ANNE PRICE Appointed: 2021

GWYNETH HILARY EVANS Appointed: 2021

HOWARD SPARKS Appointed: 2022

LINDA ELLEN HUGHES Appointed: 2021

REV GREGORY STEPHEN SHARPLES (Chair) Appointed: 2019

SARAH GAYLE BEANEY Appointed: 2023

STEPHEN LESLIE MCCANN Appointed: 2023

STEVEN GORDON SHUTTLEWORTH Appointed: 2023

MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER DUCKETT Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: MERSEY WEAVER DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/12/2016, number: 1170687

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; AR19: 3 days late,

Main office

ST. JOHNS CHURCH
134 GREENWAY ROAD
WIDNES
WA8 6HA

Objectives

PROMOTING IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH.

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