Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

GREAT YARMOUTH PRESERVATION TRUST 

The Trust's objects and principal activities are to preserve for the benefit of the inhabitants of Great Yarmouth buildings of special beauty or of historic or architectural interest. The Trust is developing projects which deliver training in practical conservation skills.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

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
31/03/23£516£501£14£0£1,123£76618.340
31/03/22£789£726£63£0£1,109£76112.655
31/03/21£612£516£96£0£1,046£83219.330
31/03/20£470£376£93n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£677£715£-38£0£857£76812.9020
31/03/18£233£226£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£176£129£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£455£459£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£749£782£-34£24£844£73711.300
31/03/14£722£888£-165£11£451£3204.300
31/03/13£535£332£203£9£616£31011.200
31/03/12£117£25£91£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£31£48£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£34£45£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£27£29£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£23£11£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07?*£29£17£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£31£13£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£19£8£11£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: 42%
Liabilities/Income: 160%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 68%
Reserves/Spending: 18.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Established: 44 years

www.greatyarmouthpreservationtrust.org

louise@gy-pt.org

07725207005

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Norfolk,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
National Lottery Heritage Fund£635,704
DCMS£202,033
Architectural Heritage Fund£126,900
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£60,000
The Pilgrim Trust£30,000
Dulverton Trust£21,640
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£30,000 13/03/2023
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Towards the post of a new Executive Manager post to lead the next phase of the development of the Trust to enable it to become financially sustainable
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£60,000 25/01/2023
Core funding supporting projects and programmes using heritage to create community housing, training and employment opportunities in a town of severe deprivation and disadvantaged communities
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Everyday Heritage: Working from Home
£6,600 02/12/2022
This project celebrates the heritage of Great Yarmouths diverse, mostly working class,migrant communities. The project will use art as a vehicle for these communities to share their compelling and ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£169,604 29/11/2022
HERITAGE ENTERPRISE Saving the Iron Duke
Dulverton Trust - #iwill GYPT Youth Advisory Panel
£21,640 08/06/2022
#iwill GYPT Youth Advisory Panel
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Great Yarmouth Borough Council
£420,800 06/07/2021
HHA2019 Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens- Reimagining the People's Palace
DCMS - CRF21 Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£36,800 08/03/2021
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£27,000 07/12/2020
160 King Street
DCMS - Pinnacle Tower, Great Yarmouth
£18,633 30/10/2020
Emergency repair works to the roof, repointing to walls, works to windows, external doors, consolidation works (rafters, laths, etc)
DCMS - CRF20: Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£140,000 14/10/2020
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£99,900 02/10/2020
North West Tower
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£45,300 10/08/2020
COVID19: Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£9,000 22/02/2018
The Stories of St John's
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust
£93,500 18/07/2013
Hopton Ruined Church
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-86
  • EMILY DYE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Business Person
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/07/1980, number: 280628
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/04/1980, number: 01492613
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR07: 245 days late, AR05: 11 days late, AR04: 117 days late,
Main office

The Yare Gallery
26 South Quay
GREAT YARMOUTH
Norfolk
NR30 2RG

Objectives

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH AND OF THE NATION, WHATEVER OF THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH IN THE FORM OF (A) BUILDINGS OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST: (B) LAND OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL INTEREST OR (C) FIXED MACHINERY OF HISTORICAL INTEREST.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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