Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 9
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

L'ARCHE 

Building Communities with people who have learning disabilities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Established: 52 years

www.larche.org.uk

info@larche.org.uk

01535656186

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UN SDGs
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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
31/07/22£16,179£15,793£386£404£13,713£12,4699.5424309
31/07/21£14,694£14,378£315£335£13,350£12,17510.2443395
31/07/20£13,627£12,983£644£278£13,013£11,82010.9425295
31/07/19£13,470£13,117£354£329£12,359£11,27910.3429294
31/07/18£12,952£11,978£973£257£12,016£10,30310.3422239
31/07/17£11,280£10,387£893£248£11,050£10,24611.83890
31/07/16£9,913£9,575£338£189£10,136£8,95311.23730
31/07/15£9,433£8,585£848£313£9,800£8,78812.33360
31/07/14£8,669£8,014£655£293£8,923£8,22212.33130
31/07/13£9,049£7,522£1,527£373£8,256£6,55610.53110
31/07/12£7,718£7,360£359£326£6,721£5,2448.63000
31/07/11£7,050£7,041£9£245£6,389£5,26893020
31/07/10£7,045£7,114£-69£228£6,394£5,4219.13030
31/07/09£7,370£6,918£452£205£6,437£5,5489.62990
31/07/08£6,856£6,481£375£218£6,006£5,1139.52860
31/07/07£6,543£6,190£353£229£5,735£4,8949.52840
31/07/06£6,019£5,901£118£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/05£6,047£5,432£615£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/04£5,544£5,012£532£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 9.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 424 employees
  • 309 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£200,000
Wolfson Foundation£190,000
Tudor Trust£62,000
Joseph Rank Trust£37,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - L'Arche Links
£9,964 11/08/2023
This group will use the funding to further develop their structured befriending and activity programme for people with a learning disability living in the L’Arche Edinburgh Community across a mix ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£200,000 28/10/2022
L'Arche Ipswich - Refurbishment of The Anchor
National Lottery Community Fund - L'Arche Links
£9,902 06/07/2022
This group will recruit a Volunteer Officer to create a befriending project to help tackle the social isolation experienced by people living within their 'Community House' in Edinburgh. They will be ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Manager
£9,038 07/01/2022
The funding will be used to fund a part time Volunteers Manager. The project supports people with learning disabilities and the aim of maximising how volunteers impact positively on people with ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to L'Arche
£30,000 09/12/2021
Kitchen and bathroom refurbishment at L’Arche community in Norwood, South East London
Foundation Scotland - Grant to L'Arche Highland
£2,000 08/04/2021
Donation from the Northern Meeting Charity.
Tudor Trust - Grant to L'Arche Manchester
£2,000 22/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to L'Arche
£100,000 09/12/2020
WF Covid-19 Support Fund
Walcot Foundation - COVID19 - Supplies to support Lambeth residents with learning difficulties
£8,212 01/06/2020
12
L?Arche London is a charity that supports 32 adults with learning disabilities, autism and profound or multiple learning disabilities through a mixture of registered care, supported housing and ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to L'Arche
£60,000 05/12/2019
Refurbishment of a former care home, to create interdependent living accommodation for individuals with learning disabilities in Ipswich
Tudor Trust - Grant to L'Arche Manchester
£60,000 27/11/2019
24
over two years towards salaries at a community cafe run by adults with learning disabilities in Manchester
Co-Operative Group - Grant to L'Arche Manchester
£3,023 15/11/2019
We want to set up a community cafe and gardening project for people with learning disabilities, working with the local foodbank and church.
Joseph Rank Trust - L'Arche Community
£37,500 02/05/2019
36
To fund the project "Invite-Form-Sustain"
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to L'Arche
£40,000 04/12/2017
Refurbishment of day centre at L'Arche Liverpool
City Bridge Trust - Grant to L'Arche London
£100,000 26/11/2015
£100,000 towards the access improvements of the hub site at Norwood High Street.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to L'Arche
£100,000 17/09/2015
12
a Main Grant grant towards the renovation and redevelopment of the hub site of a project providing residential and day support to adults with learning difficulties in the London Borough of Lambeth
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to L'Arche Edinburgh
£100,000 14/03/2013
towards the building costs of a new residential home in Edinburgh for people with profound and complex learning disabilities
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 53-70
  • JOANNA MCCALL Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Registered Care Manager
Nigel set up 'MAPP' in 1998, which has become a market leader in the management of a commercial property portfolio of almost £11bn. MAPP employs around 300 people, managing buildings and building relationships with owners and occupiers.
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/07/1972, number: 264166
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/05/1972, number: 01055041
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ARK LTD on 28/09/2019
Main office

10 BRIGGATE
SILSDEN
KEIGHLEY
WEST YORKSHIRE
BD20 9JT

Objectives

THE SOCIETY IS ESTABLISHED TO RELIEVE, ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND ADVANCE RELIGION AMONG THE MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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