Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

LOCAL SOLUTIONS 

The provision of services in the following fields: Homecare, Shopmobility, Training , Welfare Rights, Supported Accommodation, Support for the disabled, Carers Support, Liverpool Watersports Centre, Mobex, Domestic Violence Service, Conference Facilities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 40 years

www.localsolutions.org.uk

info@localsolutions.org.uk

01517090990

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookInstagramX
UN SDGs
?

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£12,516£12,838£-322£95£2,336£2,2472.153774
31/03/22£13,341£12,720£621£49£2,658£2,5682.462480
31/03/21£14,466£14,366£100£52£2,037£1,8921.674398
31/03/20£14,276£14,740£-464£92£1,937£1,8491.5768126
31/03/19£13,631£13,940£-309£110£2,401£2,3182802128
31/03/18£13,109£13,104£6£102£2,710£2,6392.41,0260
31/03/17£16,467£16,966£-499£137£2,704£2,4871.81,0270
31/03/16£19,508£19,170£338£108£3,203£3,12621,1200
31/03/15£17,766£17,648£118£126£2,865£2,7811.98340
31/03/14£17,773£18,117£-344£128£1,979£1,9791.38810
31/03/13£17,757£17,755£2£156£2,323£2,3231.68410
31/03/12£18,670£19,114£-444£151£2,322£2,3221.59170
31/03/11£20,992£20,175£817£172£2,765£2,7651.61,1290
31/03/10£17,429£17,374£55£147£1,948£1,9481.37710
31/03/09£15,741£15,690£50£156£1,893£1,8931.46840
31/03/08£15,446£15,122£325£158£1,842£1,8421.57290
31/03/07£15,174£14,848£326£115£1,518£1,5181.26880
31/03/06£14,568£14,829£-261£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£13,555£13,377£178£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£12,730£12,355£375£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 35%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 2.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 537 employees
  • 74 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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
The Linbury Trust£165,000
Sport England£105,000
DCMS£100,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£14,930
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Second hub -Local Solutions
£165,000 20/06/2023
A grant over three years towards the running costs of a second hub, principally staff costs, in Toxteth, Liverpool, supporting young refugees and young people living in disadvantage.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - The cost of living shouldn't cost a life
£2,500 04/01/2023
To provide care packages to victims of domestic abuse, allowing them to leave the unsafe environment including food vouchers, clothing, gas and electricity vouchers and basic household items. Items ....more
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - AIMS
£12,430 21/10/2022
To provide a 12-week course to 25 young people (16-21) who do not have a secure place to live. The course will provide them with training in skills such as CV creation, money management, problem ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Liverpool Shopmobility
£8,130 28/01/2022
The funding will be used to pay some salary costs. The project aims to bring people together by helping those with mobility issues re-integrate into the community after the pandemic.
Sport England - Toyota Parasport Fund - Local Solutions
£5,000 11/09/2020
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Toyota Parasport Fund - Local Solutions . This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on ....more
Comic Relief - Virtual Hub
£12,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Sport England - Watersports Centre refurbishment
£100,000 25/04/2019
13
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Watersports Centre refurbishment. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
DCMS - ALB-Sport England-Watersports Centre refurbishment
£100,000 25/04/2019
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled 'Watersports Centre refurbishment'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports. This ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Resettlement Passport Development worker
£9,303 29/11/2018
12
The project aims to reduce tenancy breakdowns and improve mental health in the local area. The organisation will deliver tenancy skills courses to people in the local area taking on new tenancies. ....more
Comic Relief - Sports Horizons
£490,868 06/11/2018
36
Local Solutions will offer a 12-month intensive mentoring and personal development program for 16-21 year olds who do not have a secure place to live, using watersports as an engagement tool. Regular ....more
Sport England - Watersports for Wheelchair Users
£10,000 12/09/2017
12
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Watersports for Wheelchair Users'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries ....more
Sport England - Watersports for Wheelchair Users
£10,000 12/09/2017
17
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Watersports for Wheelchair Users. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Local Solutions
£138,652 15/05/2017
18
Final phase of work with Local Solutions, to feed their work into their wider organisation for change and out into local networks and providers, and to collect and share their learning though a ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Local Solutions
£160,000 08/06/2016
24
To fund two core salaries and support travel, relationship building and convening activities for a group of ‘generalists’ and ‘specialists’ to explore gaps in practice and interventions with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - My Time
£122,437 01/06/2016
36
The organisation will use the funding to develop a broader range of free recreational activities, support and advice for over a thousand carers living in the Liverpool, giving them a break from their ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Local Solutions
£7,094 26/06/2015
To backfill for one day a week the role of the lead intense mentoring practitioner, providing her with time to research different practice models to improve intense mentoring and to explore wider ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Local Solutions
£99,700 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' salary and related project costs of an intensive mentoring project in North Wales that supports vulnerable young, homeless people experiencing severe disadvantage
National Lottery Community Fund - Carers Health and Well Being Project
£134,090 09/02/2011
48
Local Solutions will expand an existing project aimed at supporting unpaid carers in Liverpool. It will provide carers with respite from their caring duties and enable them to focus on themselves ....more
Show more rows

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-74
  • KARL CLAWLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Associate Director
  • SUZANNE MAZZONE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Executive Director Of Housing Services
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/05/1984, number: 515060
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/02/1984, number: 01792921
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
  • Welsh Government (Social Landlords And Housing Associations)
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; all on time
Main office

Local Solutions
Suite A
First Floor
Building 2000
Vortex Court
Enterpri

Objectives

1.1 The Charity’s objects (“the Objects”) are 1.1.1 to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community, and in particular the advancement of education, the furtherance of health, the relief of poverty, distress and sickness, charitable regeneration by the maintenance or improvement of the physical, social and economic infrastructure and the provision of facilities in the interests of education, social welfare, recreation or other leisure time occupation, with the object of improving conditions of life by empowering individuals and supporting communities in England and Wales;1.1.2 to promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above purposes and to that end to bring together representatives of the statutory authorities, local councils and voluntary organisations engaged in the furtherance of the above purposes within England and Wales.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND, NORTH EAST WALES AND MERSEYSIDE IN PARTICULAR

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

Tips for Selecting Charities

Which areas of philanthropy are most effective?
The text of this post is taken from an article on the Effective Altruism forum. It suggests that you can achieve the most impact by supporting causes that fight extreme poverty, improving animal welfare....more
Our Top Tips for Philanthropy
Here are some ideas to help you gain more satisfaction from your philanthropy and confidence that the causes you have selected are impactful. Engage your brain, as well as your heart You....more
How to become a Philanthropist
In this Blog we outline a strategy to help people who are new to philanthropy and for those who feel dissatisfied with the impact they are having. Effective philanthropy is immensely rewarding for donors,....more

Giving is Great