Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 8

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 4

BURY FELLOWSHIP

The principal activity of BURY FELLOWSHIP is that of a Church within the Bury and NW Community, advancing the Christian Faith. The Public Benefits they provide include:- 1. feeding the homeless, 2. Providing street pastors, to help vulnerable people, 3. Providing help to marriages and families that are struggling 4.Supporting other charities proclaiming the Christian Faith.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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	Volun- teers
31/10/23		£77	£77	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	45
31/10/22		£114	£103	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	54
31/10/21		£101	£133	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	90
31/10/20		£136	£119	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	93
31/10/19	*	£99	£87	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	89
31/10/18		£103	£105	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/10/17		£83	£83	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/10/16		£81	£85	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/10/15		£90	£78	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/10/14		£38	£20	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/10/13		£16	£11	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years

www.bury.org.uk

office@bury.org.uk

07842194639

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Religious Activities

GiG Classification

Christian congregations

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Bury,

Who it helps

Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

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

Forever Manchester	£24,440
Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity	£16,480
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000
Ministry of Justice	£5,170

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Manna House
£10,000	07/01/2022	The funding will be used to employ a lead worker to oversee the groups support to homeless and vulnerable community members. The project aims to free up volunteers who organise hot meals and ....more The funding will be used to employ a lead worker to oversee the groups support to homeless and vulnerable community members. The project aims to free up volunteers who organise hot meals and practical help to people who visit the centre on a daily basis.
Ministry of Justice - Supported Child Contact Centres
£2,500	01/04/2021	To help sustain supported contact centres to contribute to costs to enable them to continue delivering supported contact in the community.
Forever Manchester - Community HUB pilot extension
£5,000	18/03/2021	Community Support Worker for 3 months
Forever Manchester - Bury Hub at The Manna House
£19,440	25/09/2020	Volunteer recruitment and training for financial support project
Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity - Grant to Bury Fellowship
£9,980	14/05/2020	Towards staff costs and purchase additional food, toiletries and start the Food Club Project. (COVID-19 response)
Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity - Grant to Bury Fellowship
£6,500	30/03/2020	Supporting initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ministry of Justice - Supported Child Contact Centres
£2,670	01/01/2020	To help sustain supported contact centres to contribute to costs to enable them to continue delivering supported contact in the community.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 65-74

ALAN ROBINSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Church Administrator

IAN HOWARD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

RUTH WARBURTON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Director, Other trusteeship: BURY STREET PASTORS,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/09/2012, number: 1149072
Registered at Companies House on 10/09/2012, number: 08208655

Gift Aid

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 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

11 returns made; AR19: 10 days late,

Main office

23 Lakeside
BURY
Lancashire
BL9 9TX

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS(OBJECTS)ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN BURY,LANCASHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.

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