Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 5
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

MIRES BECK NURSERY 

1. Relief of persons with a physical and/or learning disability, the elderly and persons suffering or recovering from mental illness.2. Conserve, protect and enhance the natural and physical environment.3. Advance the education of the general public in horticultural and allied skills.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£1,101£1,067£34£37£638£6307.14530
30/09/22£884£1,001£-117£140£605£58572035
30/09/21£798£890£-92£92£721£6899.34030
30/09/20£960£803£157£70£814£70710.64030
30/09/19£746£728£18£78£656£61810.24030
30/09/18£710£652£58£72£639£61011.2210
30/09/17£636£681£-45£83£580£56810200
30/09/16£661£637£24£66£625£62511.8200
30/09/15£642£609£33£76£601£60111.8200
30/09/14£556£597£-41£71£568£56811.4180
30/09/13£551£526£24£73£609£60913.9180
30/09/12£499£449£50£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/11£440£457£-17£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/10£638£444£193£69£551£55114.9150
30/09/09£456£317£139£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/08£266£267£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/07£247£246£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/06£237£206£31£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/05£210£167£42£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/04£151£146£5£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 12%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 7.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.2
Asset Split ?
Established: 30 years

www.miresbeck.co.uk

admin@miresbeck.co.uk

01430423227

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Riding Of Yorkshire, Kingston Upon Hull City,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£88,649
The Clothworkers Foundation£15,500
Two Ridings Community Foundation£5,000
CAF£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£88,649 17/07/2020
"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
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid 19
£5,000 20/05/2020
Funding for Portakabins, work benches and work packs, so that the group can continue to support vulnerable adults.
CAF - Grant to Mires Beck Nursery
£5,000 27/04/2020
3
Grant to Mires Beck Nursery to support the organisation through COVID19
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Mires Beck Nursery
£3,001 15/11/2019
We want to take some of our service users on holiday to the Scargill Community in Kettlewell, North Yorkshire.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Mires Beck Nursery
£15,500 16/07/2019
replacement of a septic tank for a charity which works with people with disabilities in East Yorkshire

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 54-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/05/1994, number: 1038078
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/05/1994, number: 02928901
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

MIRES BECK NURSERY
LOW MILL LANE
NORTH CAVE
BROUGH
HU15 2NR

Objectives

A.THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH A PHYSICAL AND/OR LEARNING DISABILITY, THE ELDERLY AND PERSONS SUFFERING FROM OR RECOVERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR SUCH PERSONS IN HORTICULTURAL AND ALLIED CRAFTS.B.TO CONSERVE, PROTECT AND ENHANCE THE NATURAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT.C.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN HORTICULTURAL AND ALLIED SKILLS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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