Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 5

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

Static board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -3

POSITIVE WEST MIDLANDS

Positive West Midlands is a peer led support group for people living with HIV and their supporters.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board composition appears to be rather static

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: 7 years

info@positivewestmidlands.co.uk

07921392611

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
12/10/22	£1	£8	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
12/10/21	£17	£4	£14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
12/10/20	£22	£6	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
12/10/19	£22	£12	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
12/10/18	£15	£8	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	1
12/10/17	£6	£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Birmingham City,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - HIV Peer Support
£9,520	21/06/2019 12	The project will train people with lived experience of the difficulties people with HIV face to become peer mentors. Alongside this, the project will maintain an accessible and safe space for their ....more The project will train people with lived experience of the difficulties people with HIV face to become peer mentors. Alongside this, the project will maintain an accessible and safe space for their members, and provide activities to improve wellbeing and bring people together.
People's Health Trust - HIV Peer Support
£5,000	06/06/2019	This 12-month project provides a peer-support and mentoring group with dance and arts and crafts activities for adults in Birmingham living with or affected by HIV. The group aims to tackle social ....more This 12-month project provides a peer-support and mentoring group with dance and arts and crafts activities for adults in Birmingham living with or affected by HIV. The group aims to tackle social and emotional isolation which can result from stigma related to HIV and supports members to live the best lives they can with their friends, family and wider communities. The group is peer-led and run by member-volunteers with regular group discussions where all can feed back.
National Lottery Community Fund - HIV Peer Support
£9,800	20/12/2017 12	This group will use the funding to help them continue to provide a safe space for people who are living with HIV to meet up and socialise. This will empower people to better maintain their health ....more This group will use the funding to help them continue to provide a safe space for people who are living with HIV to meet up and socialise. This will empower people to better maintain their health whilst building resilience and self-esteem.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALAN WILSON Appointed: 2018

DR GRAHAM MALCOLM BEARDS Appointed: 2019

MARY CLARKE Appointed: 2019

PHILIP EMERY Appointed: 2018

ROBERT HENNEGAN Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/03/2017, number: 1172171

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; all on time

Main office

714 Trident House
Granville Square
BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM
West Midlands
B4 6QD

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH OR SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED BY HIV THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO HIV.

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