Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 29 ?

HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM FOODBANK 

elimination of hunger and poverty in Hammersmith & Fulham
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 12 years

www.hammersmithfulham.foodbank.org.uk

info@hammersmithfulham.foodbank.org.uk

02077313693

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
UN SDGs
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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
31/03/23£1,064£1,018£46£0£856£5666.78139
31/03/22£831£685£146£2£810£5479.67163
31/03/21£1,465£1,127£338£1£664£4594.96150
31/03/20£519£439£81£2£326£1644.55150
31/03/19£337£222£115n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/03/18£185£179£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£139£137£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£131£96£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£92£64£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£62£43£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£26£17£9£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 66%
Reserves/Spending: 6.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 16.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hammersmith And Fulham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 8 employees
  • 139 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
The Trussell Trust£502,938
City Bridge Trust£50,000
The London Community Foundation£15,000
Hammersmith United Charities£15,000
The Childhood Trust£12,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£119,075 23/11/2023
Food and toiletries, electricity costs, phone and photocopier for client use
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£5,000 11/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£119,938 29/06/2022
Researcher coordinator 5dpw, Social impact consultant 5 days per month
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£132,811 26/10/2021
24
CA adviser (FT) dedicated to food bank, for 2 years
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£30,920 20/09/2021
New distribution centre venues & storage facility. Rent and refurb.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£45,720 29/07/2021
Volunteer coordinator salary
The Childhood Trust - No Child Hungry 2021
£12,500 22/06/2021
Our mission is to ensure that no child (or their families) go hungry in the Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in 2021. We do this by delivering emergency food boxes to all families who are referred ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£10,000 18/02/2021
3
If successful the entire grant would be spent on food and toiletries for the 600 to 1000 food boxes we pack each week.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£20,000 10/02/2021
Purchase of food to cover what is not met in donations.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£5,000 29/01/2021
Funding a contractor to coordinate deliveries for 4 months.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£24,474 22/07/2020
Income maximisation - advice worker
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank
£50,000 11/06/2020
£50,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
Hammersmith United Charities - To support increase in demand for food parcels doe to COVID-19 crisis
£15,000 01/05/2020
Towards the Salary of the CEO.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£5,000 09/04/2020
the purchase of food, and hygiene products for families who can no longer afford to purchase these items for themselves
National Lottery Community Fund - Food For Thought
£10,000 23/03/2020
12
The funding will be used to deliver counselling sessions for people accessing the foodbank. The project aims to support there emotional needs and mental wellbeing.
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank
£500 11/12/2019
Empowering those who experience homelessness
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham foodbank
£3,429 15/11/2019
We want funding to provide homemade soup and sandwiches to people visiting our Foodbank Centres to collect emergency food parcels.
The Childhood Trust - Big Dinner 2019
£2,500 17/04/2019
During 2018 the Hammersmith Fulham foodbank provided over 3 300 children and their families with emergency food parcels containing enough food to last for three days Your donation of 20 would ....more
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£65,620 03/01/2019
36
New food bank Operations Manager
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank
£45,570 12/12/2018
New Operations Manager
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hammersmith and Fulham foodbank
£3,840 19/11/2018
We want to buy food to ensure we have enough to feed the estimated 10-12,000 people who will need our support this year to avoid hunger.
London Catalyst - Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank - 1
£7,000 26/06/2013
Foodbank Manager salary
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 25-78
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/07/2012, number: 1148358
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/07/2012, number: 08147165
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR13: 0 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from WHITE CITY ENTERPRISE on 22/11/2021
Main office

St. Matthews Church
Wandsworth Bridge Road
LONDON
SW6 2TX

Objectives

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN AND AROUND THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1. PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND / OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS, WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY;2. PROVIDING PRACTICAL AND SPIRITUAL ADVICE AND SUPPORT, EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY REFERRAL TO APPROVED PARTNER AGENCIES, TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED THEREBY ENABLING THEM TO FIND LASTING RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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