Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -3 ?

THE SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF LITTLE GIDDING

To celebrate and commemorate Nicolas Ferrar, provide practical care and assistance in the upkeep of Little Gidding church, promote and arrange services, pilgrimages and educational visits and events at Little Gidding and elsewhere that celebrate and commemorate Ferrar's life and his lifestyle, and other historical visitors connected to Little Gidding including T S Eliot. To support Ferrar House.
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Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£4£5£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/22£4£3£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/21£3£9£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20£4£6£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£5£3£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18£8£6£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/17£3£3£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/16£5£4£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/15£3£1£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/14£10£10£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/13£12£12£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/12£11£7£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/11£6£5£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/10*£7£7£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/09*£8£7£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/08£7£4£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/07£7£8£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/06£22£17£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/05£2£0£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/04*£2£0£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 20 years
Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Gender Split

  • JUDITH HODGSON
  • RICHARD REDVERS SCOTT
  • SIMON KERSHAW (Chair), Occupation: Software Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/03/2004, number: 1102857
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR10: 116 days late, AR09: 12 days late, AR04: 3 days late,
Main office

12 Bayswater Avenue
BRISTOL
BS6 7NS

Objectives

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION, AND IN PARTICULAR - (I) TO GIVE THANKS TO ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THE HOLY LIVES AND EXAMPLES OF NICHOLAS FERRAR AND THOSE WHO SHARED HIS LIFE AT LITTLE GIDDING. (II) TO VENERATE HIS MEMORY AND TO HONOUR THOSE IDEALS OF CHRISTIAN FAMILY LIFE OF WHICH LITTLE GIDDING PROVIDED SO PERFECT A PATTERN. (III) TO TAKE A PRACTICAL AND ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE CARE, UPKEEP AND ADORNMENT OF THE CHURCH OF LITTLE GIDDING AND ITS PRECINCTS. (IV) TO ARRANGE, AS OCCASION PROVIDES, FOR VISITS AND PILGRIMAGES TO LITTLE GIDDING AND, IN ANY OTHER WAYS THAT MAY BE DEEMED FITTING, TO PRESERVE THE SENSE OF LITTLE GIDDING AS A HOLY PLACE, FROM WHICH THE SANCTITY CAN NEVER DEPART. (V) TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITIES FOR PILGRIMS AND OTHER VISITORS TO COME TO, VISIT, OR STAY AT LITTLE GIDDING. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE LIFE OF NICHOLAS FERRAR AT LITTLE GIDDING AND ALSO THE CONNECTION OF T S ELIOT WITH LITTLE GIDDING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LITTLE GIDDING

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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