Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 4

Spending falling: -1
Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Mainly male board: -1

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: -3

THE BASEMENT ADVISORY CENTRE

The Basement Advisory Centre provides a drop-in facillity for the homeless community in Liverpool city centre.Priority is given to rough sleepers and our service users can access our counsellors, advocacy, laundry, showering services as well as accessing our signposting and advice services.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is predominantly male
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 recently

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
31/03/23		£71	£73	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£97	£106	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£146	£106	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£151	£156	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£165	£157	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£167	£150	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17		£166	£177	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16		£262	£266	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/15		£513	£533	£-20	£3	£24	£19	0.4	12
31/03/14	*	£552	£543	£9	£1	£44	£71	1.6	0
31/03/13		£499	£656	£-157	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/12		£485	£557	£-71	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/11	*	£580	£489	£92	£3	£264	£11	0.3	12
31/03/10		£303	£268	£35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/09		£284	£245	£39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/08		£256	£224	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/07	*	£203	£216	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/06	*	£200	£218	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£209	£195	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04	*	£154	£200	£-45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 25 years

www.the-basement.org.uk

denise@c-r.org.uk

07798828342

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Shelter for homeless, vulnerable & excluded people

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Liverpool City,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

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 - Reach out and Connect
£3,030	06/05/2022	The funding will be used to pilot a holistic support programme for for people who live with mental health and wellbeing challenges. The project aims to provide practical and emotional support to ....more The funding will be used to pilot a holistic support programme for for people who live with mental health and wellbeing challenges. The project aims to provide practical and emotional support to enable people to deal with mental health challenges and improve their wellbeing.
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to The Basement Advisory Centre
£26,220	19/05/2021	1 year funding for the Mental Health Recovery Worker role
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£5,000	22/10/2018	Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Basement Development
£9,675	11/04/2017 12	The funding will be used by a charity to consult on their building's future use, develop the ideas that emerge from the consultation and put in place a plan to fund and implement the new initiatives ....more The funding will be used by a charity to consult on their building's future use, develop the ideas that emerge from the consultation and put in place a plan to fund and implement the new initiatives for the benefit of homeless people from the local community. The project aims to ensure that future plans reflect the needs and aspirations of homeless and vulnerably housed people.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Basement Advisory Centre
£13,127	06/05/2015 12	supporting the charity though a period of significant change and homelessness support across Liverpool, working to deliver the strategic and business plan
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Basement Advisory Centre
£49,000	29/06/2011	the salary of a Service Manager

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 52-67

BILL CHRISTOPHER (Chair), Occupation: Company Director

DENISE LEWIS Appointed: 2000, Occupation: Pa

GLEN MONAGHAN Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Charity Worker

KEVIN MOORES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Farmer, Other trusteeships: JOHN MOORES FOUNDATION, JOHN MOORES FOUNDATION,

TIM KENWARD Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Barrister

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/04/1999, number: 1075052
Registered at Companies House on 01/10/1998, number: 03642747

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
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

20 returns made; AR14: 81 days late, AR11: 5 days late, AR07: 0 days late, AR06: 2 days late, AR04: 41 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE C & R FOUNDATION on 23/02/2021

Main office

56-60 Parr Street
LIVERPOOL
L1 4JN

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST PERSONS IN THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL WHO ARE HOMELESS OR SLEEPING ROUGH BY THE PROVISION OF A NIGHT SHELTER.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF LIVERPOOL.

Data Sources