Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 9
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +9

GROUNDWORK YORKSHIRE LIMITED 

To bring about lasting environmental improvements through partnerships and contributing to the economic and social regeneration in the area we operate in.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • There are 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
  • The Board is predominantly male
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Established: 36 years

https://www.groundwork.org.uk/yorkshire/

leeds@groundwork.org.uk

01132380601

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£6,068£5,943£124£887£938£380.167248
31/03/22£5,055£4,990£65£835£-296£-1,829-4.4101100
31/03/21?£1,687£1,613£74£272£-552£-1,848-13.78981
30/09/20?£3,906£3,896£10£810£-626£-1,941-68525
31/03/19£2,822£2,887£-65£466£-636£-1,886-7.877300
31/03/18£2,257£2,248£10£0£-484£-1,734-9.3580
31/03/17*£1,714£1,941£-227£445£-435£-1,685-10.41000
31/03/16£3,725£3,097£628£0£128£-1,122-4.3540
31/03/15*£6,348£3,950£2,398£425£3,977£-952-2.9670
31/03/14*£4,538£3,613£924£172£1,963£-82-0.3550
31/03/13£3,641£2,871£770£148£555£7593.2500
31/03/12*£3,482£3,445£37£18£-243£-243-0.8640
31/03/11*£3,845£3,754£92£21£52£520.2720
31/03/10*£2,562£2,987£-424£18£-344£-344-1.4610
31/03/09*£2,656£2,864£-208£19£985£4732480
31/03/08*£3,245£2,656£589£32£1,362£2981.3490
31/03/07£1,715£1,698£17£17£975£4323.1350
31/03/06*£1,519£1,419£100£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£1,717£1,711£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,344£1,262£83£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 17.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 14.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 68%
Liabilities/Income: 33%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 4%
Reserves/Spending: 0.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 67 employees
  • 248 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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£125,000
Leeds Community Foundation£64,405
National Lottery Community Fund£18,000
Two Ridings Community Foundation£16,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH Morley Youth Sessions
£10,000 04/08/2023
The funding will be used to deliver a 4 week programme of youth led activities for young people. The project aims to engage in positive activities develop skills and build stronger relationships with ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Go Wild - Healthy Holidays
£20,000 03/02/2023
Grant to Groundwork Yorkshire
Leeds Community Foundation - Go Wild
£20,000 03/02/2023
Grant to Groundwork Yorkshire
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Groundwork Yorkshire Limited
£9,330 07/12/2022
Queer Heritage activity sessions
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Cooking on a Budget
£5,000 30/06/2022
Funding for staff, seeds, equipment to deliver two six-week blocks of cooking and eating sessions in schools, in a very deprived area of West Yorkshire.
Leeds Community Foundation - Go Wild
£20,000 24/02/2022
9
Healthy Holidays Go Wild programme will consist of themed activities such as sports, trips and exploring, healthy eating and cooking.
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Groundwork Yorkshire
£4,405 13/07/2021
Our project is to rejuvenate the existing clapped out and very uninviting Hill Top Playground at the Beckhills Estate in the Miles Hill area of Leeds, by removing the existing life-expired play ....more
DCMS - GRCF2021 Hulls Dynamic Drains
£125,000 21/06/2021
The Dynamic Drains project will create green jobs and engage the public in a programme of activities that will connect people with local open spaces within the city of Hull, whilst also enhancing ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0697-CF1408 - Improving Yorkshire's Industrial Estates, 2122 - 15k, 2223 - 7k
£11,024 01/04/2021
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - PGW0697-CF1318 - Improving Yorkshire's Industrial Estates, 2122 - 15k, 2223 - 7k
£3,928 01/04/2021
Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£10,000 03/06/2020
Funding to bring in an additional employment support worker to help with the increase in demand for their services as a result of coronavirus.
National Lottery Community Fund - Springhead Covid 19 homecooked meal delivery service
£8,000 07/05/2020
12
The funding will be used to meet the increasing demand to produce and deliver home cooked meals for vulnerable people living in self-isolation. Linking with homecare services and other agencies ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£1,000 08/04/2020
Covid-19. Funding toward delivery costs to deliver free meals to elderly residents.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Groundwork Wakefield
£9,000 21/05/2019
12
'Go wild' summer play club delivers structured and semi structured play opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people in in Bramley, Seacroft and Little Horton, to reduce isolation, ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Groundwork Yorkshire
£80,400 24/07/2018
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the Men in Sheds project using woodworking to support vulnerable older men in Leeds.
Leeds Community Foundation - Wyke Beck Rangers
£2,500 16/03/2018
4
Groundwork will be running an Urban Rangers project over the 2018 summer holidays in the Wyke Beck Valley. The project is aimed at working with young people entitled to free school means to make ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing St Andrews
£276,870 10/03/2017
36
The group aims to transform derelict open spaces, reduce litter and fly-tipping and help people make their money go further. The project will strengthen community ties in an extremely deprived and ....more
Power to Change - Groundwork Wakefield
£88,000 25/09/2015
36
Grant to Groundwork Wakefield
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Groundwork Wakefield
£80,000 13/11/2013
Kirkgate Calling
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (15)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/15 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-78
  • DAN WILSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Charity Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/02/1988, number: 519846
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/12/1987, number: 02202681
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • 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; AR17: 2 days late, AR15: 833 days late, AR14: 39 days late, AR12: 1 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 9 days late, AR09: 2 days late, AR08: 3 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 2 days late,
Main office

GROUNDWORK YORKSHIRE
ENVIRONMENT & BUSINESS CENTRE
MERLYN-REES AVENUE
MORLEY
LEEDS
LS27 9SL

Objectives

The objects of the Company are: 2.1 To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in the Area. 2.2 To provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for those living in or working in or resorting to the Area. 2.3 To advance public education in environmental matters and of the ways of better conserving, protecting and improving the same wheresoever. 2.4 To promote for the public benefit, urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation within the Area by all or any of the following means: 2.4.1 the relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit; 2.4.2 the relief of unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit including assistance to find employment; 2.4.3 the advancement of education, training or re-training particularly amongst unemployed people and providing unemployed people with work experience; 2.4.4 the provision of financial assistance, technical assistance, business advice or consultancy in order to provide training and employment opportunities for unemployed people in cases of financial or other charitable need through help: (a) in setting up their own businesses; or (b) to existing businesses; 2.4.5 the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of work space, buildings and/or land for use on favourable terms; 2.4.6 the provision of housing for those who are in conditions of need and the improvement of housing in the public sector or in charitable ownership provided that such power shall not extend to relieving any local authorities or other bodies of a statutory duty to provide or improve housing; 2.4.7 the maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities, including the provision of routeways such as footpaths and cycleways and access to main transport routes; 2.4.8 the preservation of buildings or sites of historic or architectural importance; 2.4.9 the provision or assistance in the provision of recreational facilities for the public at large and/or those who by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, have need of such facilities; 2.4.10 the protection or conservation of the environment, including the reclamation of derelict land for use as open space; 2.4.11 the provision of public health facilities and childcare, including the provision of schemes to promote healthier lifestyles and crèche facilities to increase the ability of parents to take up employment; 2.4.12 the promotion of public safety and prevention of crime, including the alleviation of anti-social behaviour; 2.4.13 such other means as may from time to time be determined subject to the prior written consent of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales. 2.5 To promote sustainable development for the benefit of the public within the Area by: 2.5.1 the preservation, conservation and the protection of the environment and the prudent use of resources; 2.5.2 the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially and disadvantaged communities; 2.5.3 the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic growth and regeneration. 2.6 To advance the education of the public in subjects relating to sustainable development and the protection, enhancement and rehabilitation of the environment and to promote study and research in such subjects provided that the useful results of such study are disseminated to the public at large. Sustainable development in this Article and in Article 2.5 above means “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” 2.7 To promote the efficiency and effectiveness of charities within the Area in the direct furtherance of their objects (or any one of them) by the provision of information, advice and assistance in the establishment, administration and management of such charities including assistance of all types in connection with the raising and distribution of funds. 2.8 To promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the voluntary sector for the benefit of the public by the provision of information, support and advice to local community based groups anywhere in the Area.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF WAKEFIELD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COUNCIL AREA.

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