Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

TRANSITION TOWN TOTNES LTD

We engage our community in participatory events, educational projects and services to create a more resilient town, to promote sustainable development and reduce GHG emissions. We build a local movement towards a fair and just transition. Our main themes include: cohesive and resilient community; local environment; food systems; wellbeing; local economy; energy; housing; transport; arts; waste.
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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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 ?
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
31/08/23£85£102£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/22£84£106£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/21£75£52£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/20£74£84£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19*£142£124£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/18£142£124£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/17£143£154£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/16£65£93£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/15£195£125£70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/14£88£132£-44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/13£151£109£43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/12£147£186£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/11£1,008£890£119£2£155£60.120

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years
(17 years as a company)

www.transitiontowntotnes.org

info@transitiontowntotnes.org

01803867358

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
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
Devon Community Foundation£12,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Crowdfunder£6,355
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Devon Community Foundation - A community food growing project: 'Incredible Edible Totnes'
£5,000 02/03/2023
Events and associated publicity/information material to engage people with a community food growing project.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£6,355 28/09/2022
Covid response
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Transition Town Totnes
£2,000 20/09/2022
community gardening initiative
Devon Community Foundation - Transition Streets
£5,000 07/04/2022
Bringing neighbours together to explore ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
National Lottery Community Fund - Incredible Edible
£10,000 10/09/2021
The funding will be used to expand on the organisation's 'Incredible Edible' programme offering access to food growing space gardening and outdoor activity for local residents. The project aims to bring people together and offer the opportunity to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Incredible Edible
£10,000 05/09/2019
12
Incredible Edible
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£15,000 04/06/2019
12
towards the cost of production and dissemination of a resource that will document the learning from the Grown In Totnes programme, for use by other organisations seeking to improve and relocalise the food system, as described in your proposal.
Friends Provident Foundation - Caring Town Totnes-Exploring community centred commissioning models and services
£9,500 01/12/2017
To co-design, implement and test specific commissioning pathways and procurement processes with the CGCG and possibly Devon County Council , based around delivery of our jointly designed service proposals - Co-design, implement and test other ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£38,230 21/08/2017
12
Towards a project that will shift the focus of local cereal and pulse production from animal consumption to humans, to make local supply chains greener and increase the nutritional quality of a diet sourced from locally sourced foods.
Friends Provident Foundation - Transition Town Totnes - Caring Town Totnes
£15,000 13/09/2016
Our health is at the heart of our personal resilience, on which our community's economic resilience rests. Public budget cuts and growing demand are putting unprecedented pressure on our health and care systems, and people are falling through the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£105,830 26/02/2015
36
Towards a project that will stimulate the local production and consumption of human food crops in and around Totnes.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£75,000 07/04/2010
36
Towards Project costs Towards training and development costs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • CHARLES EDWARD HARRINGTON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired Lawyer
  • DR HELEN STRIDE Appointed: 2024
  • DR NICHOLAS ROBERTS MBA MBE Appointed: 2018
  • MARY COUGHLAN-CLARKE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • SIENNA LULA SOMERS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/11/2010, number: 1138865
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/06/2007, number: 06287039
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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
13 returns made; AR19: 13 days late,
Main office

The Mansion
36a Fore Street
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 5RP

Objectives

1. The promotion of sustainable development for the public benefit of the citizens of Totnes and environs by(i) the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment, and the prudent use of natural resources(ii) advancing education and raising awareness of climate change, resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, sustainable development, and economic resilience(iii) the promotion of community commitment to reductions in scarce resource use, in non-renewable energy use and in greenhouse gas emissions(iv) the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic development and regeneration(v) the prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship (vi) the promotion of social inclusion and of resilient mental health(vii) the development of capacity of socially and economically disadvantaged people such that they are more resilient and able to participate more fully in societySustainable development means development that meets the needs of the present citizens without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.2. Any other charitable purpose deemed charitable by the Charity Commission of England and Wales that the trustees may see fit.

Defined Area of Benefit:

TOTNES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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