Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
No PartB

Static board: -3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 2

WINDOWS PROJECT TRUST

Creative writing workshops with diadvantaged and disabled children and young people.

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:

The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

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
05/04/23	*	£53	£49	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
05/04/22		£47	£42	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
05/04/21		£39	£31	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
05/04/20	*	£55	£63	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
05/04/19	*	£60	£51	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
05/04/18	*	£44	£35	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/17		£27	£37	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/16		£37	£42	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/15		£49	£43	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/14	*	£50	£51	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/13		£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	NAN	0	0
05/04/12	*	£4	£26	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/11		£8	£4	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/10		£5	£4	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/09	*	£4	£4	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/08		£2	£7	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
05/04/07	*	£24	£10	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 43 years

www.windowsproject.co.uk

windowsproject@btinternet.com

07710644325

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 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

John Moores Foundation	£21,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,590
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	10/07/2023	towards core costs over the next 12 months
National Lottery Community Fund - Green Earth Soup
£9,590	13/08/2021	The funding will be used to provide writing workshops for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities. The project aims to reduce social anxiety and improve communication skills and wellbeing.
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Windows Project
£21,000	07/07/2020	Towards projects for disabled and disadvantaged children
National Lottery Community Fund - Ways into Words
£9,900	20/12/2017 12	The organisation will provide creative writing sessions for adults with learning disabilities facilitated by two of their peers, resulting in publishing a book of their work. This will increase the ....more The organisation will provide creative writing sessions for adults with learning disabilities facilitated by two of their peers, resulting in publishing a book of their work. This will increase the wellbeing of participants by enabling them to express themselves and represent their views to the wider community.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANDREW JOHNSON Appointed: 2013

PHILIP TAYLOR Appointed: 2008

ROS HARMSWORTH Appointed: 2013

URSULA JOAN CURWEN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Lecturer

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/05/1981, number: 508902
Registered at Companies House on 09/08/2013, number: 08645472

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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

17 returns made; AR23: 29 days late, AR20: 39 days late, AR19: 57 days late, AR18: 46 days late, AR14: 156 days late, AR12: 145 days late, AR09: 303 days late, AR07: 345 days late,

Main office

1-27
BRIDPORT STREET
LIVERPOOL
L3 5QF

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN MERSEYSIDE CHESHIRE AND LANCASHIRE BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THOSE ACTIVITIES OF THE WINDOWS PROJECT (MERSEYSIDE) ASSOCIATION WHICH ARE CALCULATED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO INCREASE AMONGST YOUNG PERSONS INTEREST IN AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN PARTICULAR AS A MEDIUM FOR CREATIVE EXPRESSION OR WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO BRING TO THE ATTENTION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC POETRY OF HIGH LITERARY MERIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CHESHIRE, LANCASHIRE, HIGH PEAK OF DERBYSHIRE,GREATER MANCHESTER AND MERSEYSIDE

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