Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

BETTER THINGS 

Provision of the following for people with learning disabilities:Sport, Recreation, Social, Leisure and Learning projects, Health Awareness,Social Inclusion,Campaigning and Awareness,Disability Hate Crime
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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: 44 years

wearebetterthings.co.uk

wearebetterthings@gmail.com

07784723151

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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
31/01/23£57£57£0n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/01/22£50£31£19n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/01/21*£30£23£7n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/01/20£36£25£11n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/01/19*£34£27£7n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/01/18*£36£26£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/17£66£67£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/16*£83£90£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/15*£94£94£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/14£78£100£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/13*£84£62£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/12*£70£97£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/11*£82£92£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/10*£72£89£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/09?*£98£105£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/07*£531£515£16£9£111£1112.6180
31/01/06*£516£560£-44£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/05*£392£426£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/01/04*£431£397£34£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Manchester City,

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
DCMS£10,000
MACC£7,170
Forever Manchester£4,560
Co-Operative Group£4,035
Sport England£4,017
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Forever Manchester - The Air that We Breathe
£3,560 07/08/2023
Clean air project to raise awareness and run green workshops in the community.
MACC - Better Things
£920 15/12/2021
To help cover the cost of volunteers’ expenses of grassroots organisations in the city of Manchester
MACC - Better Things
£750 25/11/2021
Event(s) to raise awareness and increase the reporting of hate crime
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Better Things
£4,035 23/10/2021
We would like to bring socially-isolated people together to promote wellbeing through art, sport and outside spaces.
Sport England - Taking Part Project
£4,017 14/07/2021
17
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Taking Part Project. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries ....more
MACC - Better Things
£500 25/06/2021
Event(s) to raise awareness and increase the reporting of hate crime
Forever Manchester - Better Wellbeing
£1,000 12/05/2021
Yoga classes and chair exercise classes
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 20/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
MACC - Better Things
£5,000 05/09/2019
Project aimed at keeping people safe and/or reducing harm and offending and/or strengthening communities and places
National Lottery Community Fund - Better Lives
£9,810 03/01/2019
12
The charity will run music-related workshops and three larger community events for adults with a range of learning disabilities. The project aims to help beneficiaries gain the confidence to take ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/06/1980, number: 510031
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
19 returns made; AR21: 3 days late, AR19: 4 days late, AR18: 47 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 154 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR12: 368 days late, AR11: 733 days late, AR10: 1098 days late, AR09: 410 days late, AR07: 89 days late, AR06: 73 days late, AR05: 138 days late, AR04: 139 days late,
Main office

c/o Apt 260
2 Munday Street
MANCHESTER
M4 7BG

Objectives

A) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HELP AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDANTS AND CARERS, AND TO PREVENT LEARNING DISABILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO ADVANCE RELIGION AMONGST PERSONS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY; ANDB) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF LEARNING DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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