Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 7
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

THE WHITWORTH CENTRE

A RANGE OF CONFERENCE AND SPORTING ACTIVITIES FOR THE LOCAL AND WIDER COMMUNITY
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:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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£137£161£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£299£256£42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£315£234£81n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£234£241£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£220£227£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£158£174£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£161£237£-76n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£280£304£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£240£293£-53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14?£104£121£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/13£179£246£-67n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/12£190£210£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/11£195£200£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/10£153£181£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/09*£69£157£-87n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/10/08£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years

www.thewhitworthcentre.co.uk

paul.taylor@thewhitworth.org

01629733678

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Village halls & community buildings
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Derbyshire,
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Heritage Fund£241,882
DCMS£50,400
Sport England£7,500
National Lottery Community Fund£6,250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Whitworth Centre
£123,782 01/03/2023
Heart of the Park
National Lottery Community Fund - The Queen's Jubilee Big Weekend
£6,250 23/03/2022
The funding will be used to host a weekend of events to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The project aims to bring the community together building strong relationships.
DCMS - CRF21 The Whitworth Centre
£50,400 08/03/2021
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£7,500 26/05/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity building
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Whitworth Centre
£19,800 11/05/2020
COVID19 Whitworth Centre
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Whitworth Centre
£98,300 23/01/2020
Restoration & sustainability project
National Lottery Community Fund - supervisered toddlers playground
£10,000 22/02/2019
12
This funding will be used to develop a children's play area to provide a space that children and young people can use to play.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Summer playscheme for children in Darley Dale
£1,000 24/06/2009
Towards a summer playscheme for children in Darley Dale, Derbyshire.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • BARRY ANTON MELLOR (Chair) Appointed: 2024
  • CHRISTOPHER GORDON RAGG Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director
  • DR CREWENNA ISABEL DYMOND Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Commercial Director
  • IAN JAMES ADKIN Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/01/2008, number: 1122436
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/08/2007, number: 06330264
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • 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
16 returns made; AR09: 147 days late,
Main office

JOSEPH WHITWORTH CENTRE
STATION ROAD
DARLEY DALE
MATLOCK
DE4 2EQ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL, LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE PARISH OF DARLEY DALE AND THE ADJOINING OR NEIGHBOURING PARISHES OR DISTRICTS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME SHALL SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY DEVELOPING THE USES TO WHICH THE CENTRE, A CONFERENCE CENTRE, A LECTURE HALL, A BALLROOM AND A SPORTING VENUE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, DERBYSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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