Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 2

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -2

BARNES FOR A RECREATION GROUND

Provision of sports facilities at Park Road Recreation Ground

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 including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
This charity uses a corporate trustee

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

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
31/03/23		£25	£29	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£41	£35	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£41	£38	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£111	£100	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£39	£36	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£37	£34	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17		£35	£35	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16		£33	£33	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/15		£28	£27	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/14		£35	£36	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/13		£30	£30	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/12		£30	£29	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/11		£30	£29	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/10		£28	£28	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/09		£25	£25	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/08		£50	£50	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/07		£23	£23	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/06	*	£22	£22	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£6	£10	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04		£6	£9	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 62 years

admin@blandfordforum-tc.gov.uk

01258454500

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Amateur Sport

GiG Classification

Amusement and recreation services

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space

Where it operates

Dorset,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sport England - New cricket pavilion / community hub
£50,000	06/03/2018 27	Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled New cricket pavilion / community hub. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
DCMS - ALB-New cricket pavilion / community hub
£50,000	06/03/2018	[Placeholder]

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (1)

Blandford Forum Town Council

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/08/1962, number: 301103

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR06: 81 days late,

Main office

TOWN CLERKS OFFICES
CHURCH LANE
BLANDFORD FORUM
DORSET
DT11 7AD

Objectives

PUBLIC GARDENS AND RECREATION GROUND

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF BLANDFORD FORUM

Data Sources

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