Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 7

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

No volunteer policy: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 3

GRIT STREET AID

Grit Street Aid provides mobile assistance to around 50 rough sleepers and homeless each week throughout Greater Manchester. We offer help to people where they live on the street, providing food, clothing, and other basic essentials. We also advocate for our service users, in conjunction with the Street Support Network, and we hope to provide our service users with better access into services.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
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
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit
31/03/23	£21,669	£32,919	£-11,250
31/03/22	£27,266	£29,679	£-2,413
31/03/21	£40,021	£33,333	£6,688
31/03/20	£11,208	£3,898	£7,310

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

gritstreetaid.org

infogrit316@gmail.com

07752294441

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

General Community services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan,

Who supports 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

DCMS	£14,996
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
Forever Manchester	£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£7,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Clear The Air
£10,000	07/01/2022	The funding will be used to purchase a hydride-electric van enabling the group to reach additional homeless people in the community. Beneficiaries will be provided with essential items information ....more The funding will be used to purchase a hydride-electric van enabling the group to reach additional homeless people in the community. Beneficiaries will be provided with essential items information signposting and advocacy along with long term assistance in finding a home.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	17/09/2021	Next Phase
Forever Manchester - Supporting Rough Sleepers
£5,000	28/08/2020	Support and necessities for rough sleepers
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000	28/08/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,996	30/06/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Forever Manchester - Grit Street Aid
£5,000	24/04/2020	Basic essentials and welfare support for homeless people who haven't been found accommodation
National Lottery Community Fund - Grit Street Aid
£10,000	05/09/2019 12	Grit Street Aid

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

GLEN ANTHONY TABOIS Appointed: 2022

KAREN COURCOUX (Chair) Appointed: 2024

MALCOLM AMBROSE CHISHOLM Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/06/2019, number: 1183979

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

c/o Wythenshawe Forum Library
Civic Centre
Forum Grove
Wythenshawe
MANCHESTER
M22 5RX

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS, FACING HOMELESSNESS OR ROUGH SLEEPERS IN GREATER MANCHESTER WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CLOTHING, BEDDING, FOOD AND DRINKS, HELPING TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, INFORMATION, ADVICE, EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE, ALSO SIGNPOSTING ON ISSUES RELATED TO HEALTHCARE, ADDICTION AND HOUSING.