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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

ELY FOODBANK

Practical community based action against poverty within the area of benefit, developing and running sustainable projects such as a foodbank as well as other projects which enable people to overcome their hardship with respect to financial means, food, clothing or shelter. These projects are run in partnership with both the local churches together with a wide variety of organisations.
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
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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£409£384£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£221£151£70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£168£136£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£196£71£125n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£46£41£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£36£31£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£43£33£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£23£31£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£30£25£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£21£14£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.elyfoodbank.org.uk

info@elyfoodbank.org.uk

01353468626

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
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire,
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
The Trussell Trust£270,781
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£5,000
Masonic Trust£600
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Ely Foodbank
£5,000 17/03/2023
Grant to Ely Foodbank
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£600 28/11/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Ely Foodbank
£155,250 30/03/2022
2 p/t CA advisers
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Ely Foodbank
£59,097 10/12/2019
24
Shared f/t CA worker (5 foodbanks)
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Ely Foodbank
£56,435 10/12/2019
Shared f/t CA worker (5 foodbanks)

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

  • CAROLINE BARNES Appointed: 2020
  • JAYNE AMANDA HOWE Appointed: 2023
  • REENA APPADOO Appointed: 2024
  • SARA OCHIENG Appointed: 2022
  • STEPHANIE BAXTER Appointed: 2021
  • STEPHEN GEOFFREY CHARLES GREENISH (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • THE VERY REVD MARK BONNEY Appointed: 2016
  • TABITHA GRIFFIN Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/02/2013, number: 1150746
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

10 Chapel Street
Ely
CB6 1AD

Objectives

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY WITHIN A 20 MILE RADIUS OF THE CITY OF ELY BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR TO CHARITIES OR OTHERORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY

Defined Area of Benefit:

ELY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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