Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREWS, SHIFNAL

Promoting regular public worship open to all.Teaching of Christianity through sermons, courses, small groups.Pastoral care, including visiting the sick & supporting the bereaved.Promotion of Christianity through the staging of events and meetings & the distribution of literature.Provision of children?s & youth activities with a Christian ethos. Supporting charities in the UK & overseas.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • There are 20 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been 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
31/12/23£389£350£39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£155£149£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£167£156£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£126£160£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£176£224£-49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£172£158£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£298£236£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£150£136£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£170£140£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£165£152£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£160£139£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£142£140£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£152£195£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10*£152£195£-43n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 15 years
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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Shropshire,
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
McCarthy Stone Foundation - 2022 Dementia Action Week
£500 16/05/2022
Small Grants up to £1,000 to support local dementia groups and memory cafes

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (20)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANDREW BERNARD HEDGES Appointed: 2022
  • DEBRA FLEMMING
  • DAVID SENIOR Appointed: 2018
  • ELIZABETH HOBBIS Appointed: 2022
  • IAN HANDLEY Appointed: 2021
  • JANET ELVA LAMBOURNE BA CERT ED Appointed: 2012
  • JAYNE ANGELA JOANNE THORNEYCROFT Appointed: 2011
  • KELLY HOOPER Appointed: 2020
  • MALCOLM JOHN MACLEAN J P
  • MARILYN HIGSON Appointed: 2021
  • MICHAEL WILLIAM SHAW Appointed: 2018
  • OLIVIA ETHERIDGE Appointed: 2020
  • PHILIP HENRY FREETH Appointed: 2023
  • REV SALLY ANN DAY
  • REVEREND PREBENDARY CHRISTOPHER DAVID CHARLES THORPE (Chair)
  • ROBERT PURSER Appointed: 2016
  • STUART FLEMMING Appointed: 2019
  • SUSAN BLAKE Appointed: 2020
  • SUSANNE MARY POTTS Appointed: 2017
  • WENDY AYKROYD Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/12/2009, number: 1133242
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
14 returns made; AR10: 601 days late,
Main office

15 Wadlow Drive
SHIFNAL
TF11 9QF

Objectives

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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