Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

BAGS OF TASTE

Put simply, our work is designed to address food poverty, helping disadvantaged people overcome and stay out of it, and those we work with – principally our funders, partners, commissioners – understand and help them.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period
ending
Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost
Assets Employees Volunteers
31/08/22 £127,583 3 200
31/08/21 £85,955
31/08/20 £78,384
31/08/19 £47,994
31/08/18 £24,731
31/08/17 £26,300
31/08/16 £28,731
31/08/15 £24,458
UN SDGs
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GiG Classification
  • Community food services
Legal Constitution
This is a social enterprise, not a registered charity

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
Sussex Community Foundation£16,625
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Tudor Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Bags of Taste
£4,125 17/11/2023
Funding was provided towards their mentored home cooking courses for vulnerable people in Hastings and Rother.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bags of Taste London Food poverty project
£10,000 16/12/2022
This project will support vulnerable people in food poverty by giving them the help and practical support they need to buy and cook tasty healthy and affordable food. The project will improve the wellbeing of users and support them through the cost ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Bags of Taste
£5,000 11/11/2022
Funding was provided for mentored home cooking classes in Hastings.
Sussex Community Foundation - Bags of Taste Mentored home cooking courses in Hastings
£7,500 25/02/2022
Funding was provided towards the running costs of their Mentored home cooking courses.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bags of Taste Limited
£2,000 25/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 36-58
  • FRY, Barbara
    Appointed: 2015
    Occupation: Director Of Operations
Legal constitution
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/08/2014, number: 09160945

Data Sources

360 Giving

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