Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

STOCKPORT FOODBANK 

Providing emergency food parcels to people in Stockport who are experiencing difficult times due to unemployment, benefit changes/delays, low income or financial/domestic hardship
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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

http://www.stockport.foodbank.org.uk

foodbank@stockportfoodbank.org.uk

01614873370

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
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£311£175£136n/an/an/an/an/a170
31/03/22£190£109£82n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/21£230£75£154n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/03/20£74£50£24n/an/an/an/an/a140
31/03/19£40£39£1n/an/an/an/an/a110
31/03/18£44£36£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£29£37£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£36£43£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£63£17£46£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Stockport,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 170 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£124,440
Forever Manchester£21,682
Masonic Trust£500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Forever Manchester - Food parcels
£4,432 16/03/2023
Foodbank located in Stockport
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Stockport Foodbank
£5,000 11/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Stockport Foodbank
£103,500 31/03/2022
1x FTE generalist adviser (CA), plus additional budget to 'buy in' specialist advice as required
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 02/12/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Forever Manchester - Stockport Foodbanks Collaborative Working
£7,250 28/04/2021
Delivery costs for foodbank projects
Forever Manchester - Stockport Foodbanks Collaborative Working
£10,000 29/05/2020
Provision of food and household essentials
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Stockport Foodbank
£6,000 22/04/2020
Coronavirus Emergency Grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Stockport Foodbank
£4,970 30/10/2019
12
P/T Admin assistant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Stockport Foodbank
£4,970 30/10/2019
P/T Admin assistant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Stockport Foodbank
£2,502 12/02/2019
8x laptops
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Stockport Foodbank
£2,502 31/01/2019
12
Digital equipment
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/03/2014, number: 1156261
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from ROTARY ECLUB OF GREATER MANCHESTER AND CHESHIRE TRUST FUND on 23/08/2023
Main office

HAZEL GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
STATION STREET
HAZEL GROVE
STOCKPORT
SK7 4EX

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF PEOPLE IN STOCKPORT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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