Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

PARK LIFE HEAVITREE

SUPPORT AND GROW OUR COMMUNITYINCREASE COMMUNITY COHESION BRINGING TOGETHER LOCAL PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF AGE, GENDER, RACE, RELIGIONRAISE PARTICIPATION IN LEISURE ACTIVITIES LEADING TO ACTIVE HEALTHY CITIZENSEMPOWER LOCAL PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED IN DECISION MAKING AND MANAGING LOCAL FACILITIES AND SERVICESCREATE A SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY FOR HEAVITREE
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£132£163£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£97£129£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21?£107£75£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/20£307£27£280n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19£744£25£719£0£731£5325.7160
31/08/18£18£18£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 8 years
(13 years as a company)

www.parklifeheavitree.org.uk

hello@parklifeheavitree.org.uk

07865800565

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon,
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 Community Fund£50,492
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Power to Change£10,000
Co-Operative Group£5,512
Devon Community Foundation£1,365
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Park Life Heavitree
£2,629 21/10/2023
We would like more volunteers to join Park Life and help to build a stronger community in Heavitree. We will provide training, information packs training and support to the volunteers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting Communities
£30,492 31/05/2023
The funding will be used on reducing social isolation improving mental and physical health & wellbeing and getting people out and active.
Power to Change - Park Life Heavitree (RCF)
£10,000 12/12/2022
Grant to Park Life Heavitree (RCF)
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Co-ordinator
£10,000 28/10/2022
The funding will be used towards the salary of a volunteer Co-ordinator and running costs enabling the organisation to recruit retain and support volunteers at their community hub. The project aims to ensure volunteers receive the support and ....more
Devon Community Foundation - Heavitree Jubilee Picnic & Cardboard Community Banquet
£1,365 12/04/2022
To arrange and host a community picnic in June
National Lottery Community Fund - Park Life Community Project Managers
£10,000 06/04/2021
The funding will be used to fund an additional community project manager for a newly built not-for-profit café and community hub.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Park Life Heavitree
£2,883 24/10/2020
We are setting up the hireable hall space in the brand new Park Life Community Hub and want to make sure it has everything it needs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 14/08/2020
Community Development Co-coordinator, food project and loneliness support worker
National Lottery Community Fund - Park Life Community Food Project
£20,000 18/10/2019
12
Park Life Community Food Project
Sport England - Community Cafe and Indoor Activity Room
£40,000 07/06/2019
30
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Community Cafe and Indoor Activity Room. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
DCMS - ALB-Sport England-Community Cafe and Indoor Activity Room
£40,000 07/06/2019
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled 'Community Cafe and Indoor Activity Room'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports. This funding has contributed towards a Outdoor ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 16/04/2019
Park Life Community Hub Building Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Park Life Heavitree Community Cafe Facility
£354,002 27/03/2019
36
This funding will allow the project to build a not-for-profit café and a community hub. The project is led and run by local volunteers aiming to bring people together and create a more inclusive community through the use of a local park. Project ....more
Power to Change - Park Life Heavitree
£300,000 21/12/2018
36
Grant to Park Life Heavitree
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Park Life Heavitree
£3,988 19/11/2018
Help make Park Life's free events even better. Money raised will go towards overheads such as hire of toilets and PA systems.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Project manager application
£6,600 31/08/2018
12
The funding will be used to oversee the group's community projects. The project aims to implement their vision of bringing people together.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-70
  • BEN HUNT Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Teacher
  • CLAIRE HUNT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Seamstress
  • CHRISTOPHER BODDY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Accountant
  • JONATHAN GEDYE (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • KATE HOLMES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Fundraiser / Volunteer / Trustee
  • KATHARINE HADDEN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Artist
  • OWAIN HADDEN Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Primary School Teacher
  • PETER HUGH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/03/2017, number: 1172365
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/08/2011, number: 07735745
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

Heavitree Pleasure Ground
Whipton Lane
Heavitree
Exeter
EX1 3DS

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF HEAVITREE, EXETER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOODS SURROUNDING HEAVITREE PLEASURE GROUND, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER WITH THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS FOR LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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