Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +5
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

CHRISTIAN KITCHEN

Providing food to homeless and marginalised people in London E17.We do this using a purpose built soup van,seven days a week using volunteers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been 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
31/12/23£48£32£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£27£43£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£42£34£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£144£58£86n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£30£38£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£20£51£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£100£32£68n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16*£9£24£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£16£12£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14*£12£9£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£18£10£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

https://christiankitchen.org.uk/

info@christiankitchen.org.uk

07379684016

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Waltham Forest,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
The London Community Foundation£24,800
National Lottery Community Fund£24,760
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
City Bridge Trust£6,750
Crisis UK£5,000
CAF£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Christian Kitchen
£10,000 01/12/2020
6
The funding is for additional expenditure incurred by Christian Kitchen to serve increased numbers of homeless people we are feeding since the outbreak of COVID. We would use the funding for extra food, PPE for our volunteers, volunteer expenses, ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Christian Kitchen
£9,800 29/07/2020
The funding is for extra costs that we have incurred feeding 75% more people each night during the COVID-19 lockdown compared to the period immediately before. This is extra food and employment costs, PPE, cleaning materials and increased costs we ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£10,000 17/07/2020
MEETING HOMELESS PEOPLE'S NEEDS DURING COVID-19 AND BEYOND
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Christian Kitchen
£6,750 11/06/2020
£6,750 towards three months of costs as outlined in your application
National Lottery Community Fund - MEETING HOMELESS PEOPLE'S NEEDS DURING COVID-19 CRISIS
£24,760 11/06/2020
6
The funding will be used to provide free hot three course meals to local homeless and vulnerable people in Walthamstow and the surrounding areas.
CAF - Grant to Christian Kitchen
£2,000 07/05/2020
Grant to Christian Kitchen to support the organisation through COVID19
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Christian Kitchen
£5,000 17/04/2020
To comply with govt rules we can no longer serve sit down meals so we will change to take away food.
Crisis UK - Grant to Christian Kitchen
£5,000 09/04/2020
Funding to help change to food provision
National Lottery Community Fund - CHRISTIAN KITCHEN OUTREACH
£10,000 17/10/2019
12
CHRISTIAN KITCHEN OUTREACH
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

  • ANDREW LOCK Appointed: 2014
  • ANGELA BAPTISTE Appointed: 2023
  • BETHELHEM TEDELA Appointed: 2022
  • CARL AUSTRIE Appointed: 2022
  • COLIN CARTER (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • DAVID FREDERICK WILLIAMS Appointed: 2013
  • JERRY TAWIAH Appointed: 2024
  • MARIA DE LA CRUZ MARTINEZ SERVAN Appointed: 2022
  • MUMTAZ KHALICK Appointed: 2020
  • NORMAN PHILIP COE Appointed: 2012
  • PAIGE SINGH Appointed: 2016
  • STEPHEN JAMES KEARNS Appointed: 2014
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/09/2012, number: 1149052
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
Filing Record
11 returns made; AR16: 257 days late, AR14: 51 days late,
Main office

208 HAINAULT ROAD
LONDON
E11 1EP

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN WALTHAM FOREST BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS OR SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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