Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 8

Poor Liquidity: -1
Good reserves management: +3
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 20

CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST

To work with disadvantaged and under privelaged children and young people, their families and communities, to improve their life chances.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 61 years

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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
31/03/23		£5,959	£6,346	£-387	£136	£3,172	£3,120	5.9	100	12
31/03/22		£6,267	£6,049	£218	£97	£3,707	£3,631	7.2	109	4
31/03/21		£5,058	£4,870	£188	£72	£3,397	£3,350	8.3	92	6
31/03/20		£5,247	£5,635	£-388	£200	£2,929	£2,900	6.2	104	22
31/03/19		£5,493	£5,678	£-184	£182	£3,500	£3,470	7.3	107	38
31/03/18		£4,803	£4,760	£43	£186	£3,625	£3,601	9.1	91	0
31/03/17		£4,253	£4,199	£54	£155	£3,606	£3,577	10.2	81	0
31/03/16		£4,381	£4,582	£-200	£189	£3,143	£3,122	8.2	84	0
31/03/15		£4,815	£4,647	£168	£212	£3,387	£3,335	8.6	88	0
31/03/14		£4,479	£4,377	£102	£15	£3,167	£3,084	8.5	77	0
31/03/13		£4,179	£4,360	£-181	£299	£3,038	£2,930	8.1	83	0
31/03/12		£4,377	£4,427	£-51	£304	£3,100	£3,032	8.2	86	0
31/03/11		£5,292	£4,842	£451	£18	£3,117	£2,835	7	97	0
31/03/10		£4,773	£4,358	£415	£12	£2,636	£2,454	6.8	92	0
31/03/09		£3,867	£4,073	£-206	£9	£2,153	£2,116	6.2	79	0
31/03/08		£3,758	£3,614	£144	£8	£2,443	£2,212	7.3	73	0
31/03/07		£3,457	£3,384	£73	£15	£2,326	£2,179	7.7	74	0
31/03/06		£3,083	£3,422	£-339	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£3,035	£2,718	£317	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£2,495	£2,062	£433	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Amateur Sport
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Blackburn With Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Lancashire, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Trafford,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

100 employees
12 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

DCMS	£66,139
Dulverton Trust	£50,600
Masonic Trust	£25,307
National Lottery Community Fund	£19,802

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Child Action Northwest
£1,225	21/10/2023	We'd like to provide fun days out, activities, refreshments, and additional therapeutic support to be able to help more young carers across the Blackburn area and beyond.
Dulverton Trust - #iwill Young Farmers Emotional Health and Wellbeing - North West
£50,600	19/10/2022	#iwill Young Farmers Emotional Health and Wellbeing - North West
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Child Action Northwest
£2,570	23/10/2021	To provide vulnerable care leavers with a safe space, life skill sessions and activities to protect their mental health and wellbeing, and helping them work towards independence with our support.
National Lottery Community Fund - Get Sorted Get Supported
£10,000	30/09/2021	The funding will be used to deliver online and face to face support sessions for young people leaving care to include employability sexual health and signposting to relevant external agencies. People ....more The funding will be used to deliver online and face to face support sessions for young people leaving care to include employability sexual health and signposting to relevant external agencies. People will receive advice information and learning in preparation of leaving care with the aim of reducing anxiety and promoting wellbeing.
Masonic Trust - MCF Freemasons COVID-19 Community Fund
£25,307	08/03/2021	Grant to fund a Young Carers Schools Worker to support young carers aged 5 - 18 years in schools across Blackburn with Darwen enabling the charity to work directly in schools providing advice, ....more Grant to fund a Young Carers Schools Worker to support young carers aged 5 - 18 years in schools across Blackburn with Darwen enabling the charity to work directly in schools providing advice, information, guidance and assistance in order to ensure young carers and their families have all the support they need relieving the stress and responsibilities from the young carers. A Young Carers Schools Worker will also help schools identify and refer young carers for support.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£66,139	08/07/2020	"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."
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Child Action Northwest
£4,000	17/06/2020 6	COVID19 - This grant will fund a calendar of online support and activities for care leavers and other vulnerable children and young people in Lancashire who are isolated due to Covid-19. This will ....more COVID19 - This grant will fund a calendar of online support and activities for care leavers and other vulnerable children and young people in Lancashire who are isolated due to Covid-19. This will help improve their emotional wellbeing.
Ministry of Justice - Supported Child Contact Centres
£2,670	01/01/2020	To help sustain supported contact centres to contribute to costs to enable them to continue delivering supported contact in the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - CANW Infant Young Carers Service
£9,802	26/09/2019 12	CANW Infant Young Carers Service
Ministry of Justice - ALB - Cafcass - Supported Child Contact Centres (SCCC) Grant 19-20
£2,805	01/04/2019	Provide support for contact centres
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Child Action Northwest
£148,760	27/06/2018 36	'Get Sorted, But Supported' will deliver an intensive specialist programme of activities and tailored support for the most complex young people leaving care. The project will improve mental ....more 'Get Sorted, But Supported' will deliver an intensive specialist programme of activities and tailored support for the most complex young people leaving care. The project will improve mental wellbeing, keep young people safe and develop core life skills.
Ministry of Justice - Supported contact centres
£2,500	01/04/2018	Provide support for contact centres
Ministry of Justice - Supported Contact
£2,850	01/04/2017	Delivery of Separated Parent Information Programme to participants ordered to attend by Family Courts (CA 1989)

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 25-90

GORDON HAYES FAIRWEATHER, Occupation: Retired

JONATHAN COMYN-PLATT Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeships: THE SHOLVER MILLENNIUM GREEN TRUST, LIFE FOR A LIFE MEMORIAL FORESTS AND GARDENS, SHOLVER AND MOORSIDE COMMUNITY TEAM,

LEWIS ALEXANDER BAXTER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer

MARGUERITE WEBB (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director

MIRANDA RATHMELL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Head Teacher

NATHANIAL PAUL EATWELL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Teacher

SIMON MARK DAMP Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Managing Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/10/1963, number: 222533
Registered at Companies House on 24/09/1964, number: 00820660

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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

20 returns made; AR05: 1 days late,

Main office

THE HOMESTEAD
WHALLEY ROAD
WILPSHIRE
BLACKBURN
LANCASHIRE
BB1 9LL

Objectives

1 To relieve support, assist, counsel or otherwise benefit children and young persons and the parents of such children and young persons who are in need of care and attention including (but not limited to) children and young persons involved in the provision of care for others; 2 To relieve support, assist, counsel or otherwise benefit children and young persons who are disabled and in need of care and attention and the parents of such children and young persons;3 To relieve support, assist, counsel or otherwise benefit children and young persons who have learning difficulties and the parents of such children and young persons;4 To provide support, care and supervision for young persons and for mentally disordered or otherwise mentally vulnerable persons of any age arrested or being questioned by the police or any other prosecuting authority, remanded on bail by the police or a court or otherwise at risk of being remanded in custody including but not limited to by operation of a service providing appropriate adults to accompany such persons where provided for by law.5 To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people of all ages from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards); crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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