Overall GiG Score: 22 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

TAMESIDE SOUTH AND LONGDENDALE FOODBANK LTD 

Practical, community based action against poverty and marginalisation. Developing innovative, sustainable projects such as foodbanks.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 10 years

www.tamesidesouthlongdendale.foodbank.org.uk

manager@tamesidesouthlongdendale.foodbank.org

07906996011

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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£124£119£5n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/22£59£80£-21n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21*£125£70£55n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/20£61£49£12n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/19£40£37£3n/an/an/an/an/a47
31/03/18£36£30£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£24£23£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£22£24£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£21£19£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 40 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Derbyshire, Tameside,

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£111,152
National Lottery Community Fund£9,000
Forever Manchester£3,500
Co-Operative Group£2,929
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank
£61,755 29/03/2023
0.4 FTE CA advisor dedicated to food bank
Forever Manchester - Foodbank DIstribution
£3,500 16/03/2023
foodbank located in Tameside
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank
£5,000 11/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank
£29,959 21/07/2022
Ops Manager (new post) 21 hpw freeing up trustee capacity for strategic work
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank
£3,438 19/07/2021
Volunteer training & laptops
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Manchester South Central Foodbank
£3,000 26/08/2020
CV emergency costs: food purchase
National Lottery Community Fund - Food parcels for primary school families
£9,000 07/05/2020
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The organisation will use the funding to create and distribute food parcels as they are facing increased demand from local families with the aim of supporting local people who are facing financial ....more
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank
£5,500 22/04/2020
Coronavirus Emergency Grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Manchester South Central Foodbank
£2,500 24/03/2020
CV emergency costs: P/T warehouse worker
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank
£2,929 15/11/2019
We want to provide food parcels to people in need and offer advice and support services to address the underlying causes of poverty.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tameside South & Longdendale Foodbank Ltd
£2,682 29/11/2017
We want to continue to offer support to those in need of the food bank as well as new projects planned.
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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: 27-71
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/10/2013, number: 1154277
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/09/2013, number: 08688131
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR21: 2 days late,
Main office

Hattersley Baptist Church
Melandra Crescent
HYDE
SK14 3RB

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND PRIMARILY IN TAMESIDE AND LONGDENDALE AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR DISTRESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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