Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ROTARY CLUB OF HITCHIN TILEHOUSE TRUST FUND 

Our objects are as a voluntary services organisation for the public benefit in particular charitable fundraising and Providing grants in support of local national and international charity and reliefVocational community and youth services including education ,raising awareness and other such charitable purposes as the club shall in duly constituted meetings direct from time to time.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Spending has increased 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
30/06/23£86£87£0n/an/an/an/an/a55
30/06/22£68£87£-19n/an/an/an/an/a68
30/06/21£107£83£24n/an/an/an/an/a71
30/06/20£40£36£5n/an/an/an/an/a60
30/06/19£62£65£-3n/an/an/an/an/a65
30/06/18£70£81£-11£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£34£33£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£46£52£-6£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£61£61£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£48£39£10£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£49£39£10£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£32£41£-10£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£44£21£24£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£29£27£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£67£75£-8£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£26£23£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£18£18£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£15£12£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£12£9£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£28£28£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 22 years

www.tilehouserotary.org

contact@tilehouserotary.org

07885 404819

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Hertfordshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Hitchin Food Provision - Winter 2022/23
£8,000 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to provide food vouchers to the community. The project aims to support families who are in need this winter.
National Lottery Community Fund - Hitchin Food Provision - Summer
£6,000 25/02/2021
3
The funding will be used to continue the provision of supermarket vouchers to vulnerable families until the end of September. The project aims to support people during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,000 03/07/2020
"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

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/08/2002, number: 1093635
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

10 Whitehurst Avenue
HITCHIN
Hertfordshire
SG5 1SR

Objectives

UPON TRUST TO APPLY BOTH THE CAPITAL AND INCOME THEREOF TO OR FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND NEEDY OR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE CLUB SHALL IN DULY CONSTITUTED MEETING FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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