Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Income diversified: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE GOLDHILL PLAY ASSOCIATION 

We provide supported play for young people aged 5 to 16 years, in a friendly, secure and caring environment that is designed to stimulate their imagination and develope new skills. We aim to encourage physical, mental and social development by providing challenging activities and exciting play opportunities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Income generation is well diversified
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Established: 42 years

www.goldhilladventureplayground.org

dnxgap@aol.com

01162836350

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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
31/03/23£501£477£24£0£127£3288.2185
31/03/22£339£406£-67n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£413£354£59n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£345£257£88n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/19£291£287£4n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/18£312£309£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£261£241£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£197£210£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£211£194£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£199£209£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£224£216£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£250£247£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£265£269£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£286£279£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£242£255£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£235£234£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£217£189£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£177£159£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£130£148£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£178£168£10£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: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 257%
Reserves/Spending: 8.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Leicester City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 5 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
National Lottery Community Fund£176,504
Tudor Trust£102,000
The Fore£30,000
BBC Children in Need£29,859
Masonic Trust£15,000
CAF£8,645
The MSE Charity£6,000
Sport England£5,805
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The MSE Charity - Grant to Goldhill Adventure Playground
£6,000 15/09/2022
Cost of Living Crisis Support - Funding 10 weekly drop in advice sessions for families living in Saffron Lane, 6 financial capability workshops and 4 peer to peer support sessions, working in ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Goldhill Foodbank Plus
£129,039 25/08/2022
This funding will support charity Goldhill Play Association to deliver support to individuals and families in Eyres Monsell Leicester. Sessions will seek to alleviate hunger increase community ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Goldhill Adventure Playground
£2,683 23/10/2021
We would like to continue to give free food and support to those most in need within our area, which is in the top 10% areas of urban deprivation in the nation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Peace in the garden
£9,965 09/07/2021
The funding will be used by the group to create a sheltered sensory garden within the grounds of its community hub. The project aims to provide somewhere for families and children to come together to ....more
The Fore - Grant to Goldhill Play Association
£30,000 12/04/2021
36
The Goldhill Adventure Playground (GAP) has been providing play, learning and social opportunities to children and young people (5 to 25 years old) in Leicester for over 40 years. Over 2,000 children ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Goldhill Play Association Ltd
£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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Goldhill Play Association LTD
£27,384 30/11/2020
This project will deliver dance and drama based activities for children in Leicester impacted by the C-19 pandemic.The activities will improve wellbeing, improve relationships with others and improve ....more
CAF - Grant to Goldhill Play Association
£8,645 03/07/2020
3
Grant to Goldhill Play Association to support the organisation through COVID19
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Goldhill Play Association LTD
£2,475 17/06/2020
COVID19 - This project delivers art and sport actvity packs, materials and video sessions to children with additional needs in deprived areas, during Covid-19. Children will feel less isolated and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Goldhill Coronavirus Crisis Support
£27,500 11/06/2020
6
This project will enable Goldhill Play Association to support the Saffron Lane Housing Estate and surrounding areas. GPA will reconfigure and expand some of the existing services for vulnerable ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 02/06/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Safe and Illuminated
£10,000 16/01/2020
12
The funding will be used to make security and safety improvements to an adventure playground, making the site safer for children and attracting more local people.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Goldhill Play Association Ltd
£100,000 27/11/2019
36
over three years towards salary and running costs at an adventure playground in Leicester
Sport England - Goldhill table tennis
£5,805 10/10/2019
17
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Goldhill table tennis. This project is a Table Tennis project, with a focus on beneficiaries from a BAME ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 19/02/2019
Disadvantaged children and families in Leicester
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Goldhill Play Association
£10,000 04/02/2019
purchase of play ground equipment for a charity that works with disadvantaged young people in Leicester
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Goldhill Play Association LTD
£63,702 23/10/2018
36
The project will support children and young people with a learning disability or special educational needs in Leicester. The aim is to assist young people to access mainstream activities in order to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Goldhill Foodbank
£8,340 28/02/2018
12
This charity will run a food bank for disadvantaged people in the community, helping to address the issues of food poverty at the earliest possible stage.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 17-18
£15,137 01/12/2017
The fund has been set up to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. Bids have been assessed on ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Goldhill - 'Raising The Bar' for families facing multiple issues
£202,997 19/10/2016
36
The project will provide support and specialist services for disabled and excluded children and their families. Goldhill’s mentoring programme will help young people identify their personal ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Goldhill Play Association
£64,000 18/08/2013
36
over three years towards the rental of shop premises and over one year towards the salary of a new charity shop manager for a large integrated playground in Leicester
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 43-69
  • NEIL HODGKIN (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Community Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/03/1982, number: 512440
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/05/2012, number: 08075328
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR09: 5 days late, AR08: 370 days late, AR07: 21 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 32 days late,
Main office

co secretary Goldhill play associti
432 SAFFRON LANE
LEICESTER
LE2 6SB

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN RESIDENT IN THE SAFFRON LANE AREA OF LEICESTER, BEING FACILITIES: A OF WHICH SUCH CHILDREN HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND, B WHICH WILL IMPROVE AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH CHILDREN BY PROMOTING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPITITUAL WELL-BEING. (FOR FUTHER DETAILS SEE CONSTITIUTION).

Defined Area of Benefit:

SAFFRON LANE AREA OF LEICESTER

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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