Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 2
  • Deficit on unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Positive trading contribution: +2;Strong growth: +2
  • 2 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

MANCHESTER ACADEMY OF COMMUNITY GYMNASTICS LTD 

This project is a way of giving back to the local community and a vision of providing a world-class state of the art sports and recreation facility, operated as a charity, not for profit organisation which will enable young people, irrelevant of social disadvantages or disabilities, to achieve as much as possible, giving them a platform to help them achieve in their chosen discipline.
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Positives:

  • This charity has an endowment fund which generates most of its income
  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • There are only 2 trustees
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • All of the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • There was a deficit on unrestricted reserves of £157,729 at the last year end after deducting the value of own use assets
Established: 7 years

www.maog.org.uk

oliver@maog.org.uk

0161 707 0895

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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
24/03/23*£820£883£-63£0£-158£-158-2.1282
24/03/22£858£869£-11£0£-95£-95-1.3212
24/03/21£660£685£-26£5£-84£-84-1.5183
24/03/20£833£859£-27£2£-58£-58-0.8216
24/03/19£663£767£-104£2£-31£-31-0.5225
24/03/18*£366£293£72£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 134%
Liabilities/Income: 76%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: -2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -8 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 28 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
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£7,698 03/06/2021
1
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£7,600 27/04/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Gymnastics
National Lottery Community Fund - Get Active
£10,000 16/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to engage young people in physical activities along with conversations aimed at confronting their negative beliefs and challenge them to make better decisions. It will also ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (2)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/09/2017, number: 1174633
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/03/2016, number: 10085024
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR23: 7 days late, AR18: 1 days late,
Main office

Manchester Academy of Community Gymnastics
Astor Road
Salford
Greater Manchester
M50 1BB

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF MANCHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR THE PARTICIPATION IN GYMNASTICS, WRESTLING AND BOXING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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