Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST (CLAY CROSS) 

As a church, we provide worship, children and youth activities, a foodbank and facilities for other community events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 57 years

01246768831

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/12/22£77£77£0n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/21£63£46£17n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/20£73£48£25n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/12/19£44£38£6n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/12/18£37£40£-3£0£0£0n/a030
31/12/17£42£38£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£23£29£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£28£34£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£53£28£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£40£32£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£34£16£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£11£13£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£11£9£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£11£9£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£9£6£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£9£8£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£7£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£9£5£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£9£11£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Derbyshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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
The Trussell Trust£91,540
CAF£3,129
Masonic Trust£250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Clay Cross Foodbank
£5,000 11/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Clay Cross Foodbank
£83,927 21/02/2022
0.8 FTE generalist adviser, 0.2 FTE specialist debt adviser
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£250 06/12/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Clay Cross Foodbank
£2,613 24/02/2021
Overtime salary of FB coordinator
CAF - Grant to Clay Cross Foodbank
£3,129 18/06/2020
3
Grant to Clay Cross Foodbank to support the organisation through COVID19
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Clay Cross Foodbank
£15,944 22/12/2018
36
Part-time Resilience Officer for food bank clients
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Clay Cross Foodbank
£15,944 12/12/2018
P/t Resilience Officer
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/12/1966, number: 247928
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST
THANET STREET
CLAY CROSS
CHESTERFIELD
S45 9JS

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINE AND STATEMENTS OF BELIEF OF THE COMMUNITY OF CHRIST.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CLAY CROSS AND DISTRICT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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