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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

FIND (FAMILIES IN NEED) LIMITED 

Provide relief to the poor and homeless by way of re-distributing household goods, carpets,furniture and white electrical goods (new and secondhand). Provide food hampers at Christmas and throughout year where needed. A comprehensive Food Bank is operated.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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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
31/12/22£319£200£119n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/12/21£297£156£140n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/12/20£453£118£334n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/12/19£237£96£140n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/12/18£175£79£96£0£0£0n/a070
31/12/17£114£78£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£80£61£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£91£69£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£94£84£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£122£93£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£47£37£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£39£28£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£38£50£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£39£27£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£30£27£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£38£27£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£23£16£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£34£17£17£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years

findipswich.org.uk

maureen.find1@gmail.com

01473833351

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 80 volunteers

Who's supporting 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
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000 18/11/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Suffolk Community Foundation - Surviving Winter - Fuel Poverty
£3,000 16/12/2020
3
Surviving Winter Campaign - To assist with energy costs for those in fuel poverty during the winter period.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Relief of Fuel Poverty
£2,000 27/04/2020
To enable FIND to help with fuel top up payments for gas and electricity pre payment meters for vulnerable people during the Covid 19 pandemic.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to FIND (Families in Need) Ltd
£5,000 31/03/2020
9
Grant to FIND (Families in Need) Ltd
Suffolk Community Foundation - Surviving Winter DD
£6,000 14/01/2020
2
Surviving Winter Donor Designation.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Winter Crisis
£8,841 23/10/2018
12
To support a Rapid Intervention Crisis fund - used to provide anything to make the home warm and lift people out of fuel poverty.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 63-83
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/09/2004, number: 1106050
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/04/2004, number: 05115880
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; all on time
Main office

42 CHEQUERS RISE
GREAT BLAKENHAM
IPSWICH
IP6 0LT

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY IN THE AREA OF THE BOROUGH OF IPSWICH AND A 35 MILE RADIUS THEREOF OF PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR BY REASON OF ILLNESS, DISABILITY OR HANDICAP ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, MONEY AND FACILITIES AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS (INCLUDING FOOD, FUEL, CLOTHING, TOOLS, FURNITURE, BEDDING, SAFETY EQUIPMENT, HEATING, COOKING OR WASHING APPLIANCES AND SUCH OTHER ITEMS AS MAY BE NEEDED)

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF IPSWICH AND A 35 MILE RADIUS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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