Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

NOURISH COMMUNITY FOODBANK LIMITED

Nourish is an independent community Foodbank that provides short term emergency food and support to those in crisis in Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding areas.Our aim is "No one need be hungry in Tunbridge Wells".
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 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

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
31/03/23£495£449£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£292£293£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£576£271£305£26£427£37716.7060
31/03/20£165£123£42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£154£105£49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£97£92£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£71£68£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£65£51£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£48£42£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 11 years

http://www.nourishcommunityfoodbank.org.uk

finance@nourishcommunityfoodbank.org.uk

01892548892

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Sussex, Kent,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 20/12/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 01/12/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - Nourish Community Foodbank Emergency Appeal
£5,000 22/05/2020
7
The funding will be used to provide deliveries of food parcels. The group offer a range of volunteering opportunities local people in the community.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 18/06/2018
Core cost funding for 20018-2019
National Lottery Community Fund - Nourish Office and Van
£9,090 26/04/2018
12
The project will provide food for people on low incomes and those in financial crisis.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Nourish Community Foodbank
£10,000 09/06/2016
24
towards two years' running costs of a project providing emergency food supplies to disadvantaged people in Kent

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-76
  • ADRIAN CONROY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Publisher
  • ADRIAN TOFTS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Local Government Officer
  • BRYONY ROY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Solicitor
  • ELAINE HANHAM Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired Accountant
  • MATTHEW LOWE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Private Tutor
  • MICHAEL WELLER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Consultant
  • PETER JOHN WOOSTER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • RICHARD LLOYD WILLIAMS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired Finance Manager
  • SIMON PAUL VINCENT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Account Director
  • SUNEETA PURANIK Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Compliance Officer
  • SUSAN LISA SMITH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • VIVIENNE BARBARA RUTH PACKER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/11/2013, number: 1154716
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/11/2012, number: 08303764
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 5
Kingstanding Business Park
Kingstanding Way
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Kent
TN2 3UP

Objectives

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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