Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 1
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +1
Overall GiG Score: -8 ?

BOLTON INTERFAITH COMPANY

Faith Trails, Open Forum, Young Ambassadors, Dialogue with faith groups, Participation in Community Cohesion projects relating to faith and belief
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • 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
31/03/23£4£9£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£1£8£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£15£5£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£18£19£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£23£22£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£24£23£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£16£28£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£42£36£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£41£38£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£31£39£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£59£66£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£167£141£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£49£46£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£38£44£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09?£59£54£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£53£65£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years
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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bolton,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Bolton CVS - Grant to Bolton Interfaith Council
£2,860 03/01/2019
To create and coordinate the running of Faith Trails.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 62-79
  • MOULANA FARUK ALI (Chair), Occupation: Chaplain
  • PHILIP AUSTIN Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Northern Peace Board Executive
  • SHASHIKANT MERCHANT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Trustee
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/01/2007, number: 1117651
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/06/2006, number: 05860470
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR14: 0 days late, AR10: 15 days late,
Main office

44 TIMBERBOTTOM
BOLTON
BL2 3DL

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY: ADVANCING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEACHINGS TRADITIONS AND PRACTICES OF THE DIFFERENT FAITH COMMUNITIES IN THE BOLTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA INCLUDING AN AWARENESS BOTH OF THEIR DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND THEIR COMMON GROUND AND TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT FAITHS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOLTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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