Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 5
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
    • Overall weighted support: +5
    Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

    BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS

    Helping adults with mental health problems through participation in gardening and related craft activities.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period

    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£272£270£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/22£242£239£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/21£367£199£168n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/20£211£223£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/19£183£191£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/18£185£165£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/17£160£163£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/16£133£166£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/15£33£38£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 10 years

    www.bridewellgardens.org

    info@bridewellgardens.org

    01993259059

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    GiG Classification
    • General Community services
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Oxfordshire,
    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
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation£121,636
    Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£9,650
    Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£1,500
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - CRM and website development
    £39,520 26/05/2022
    Improve our ability to communicate with primary external audiences including potential beneficiaries, referrers, supporters, and donors. Making internal operations more efficient, external communications more effective and impactful, and ....more
    Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Bridewell Organic Gardens - 29/10/21
    £1,500 10/11/2021
    Shade Tunnel Project
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Hard landscaping project
    £530 13/05/2021
    To purchase materials to replace one large raised bed planting area which is used to grow fruit and veg. The work in building the new bed will led by one of their volunteers and will provide invaluable experience for service users in a hard ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Mental Health Recovery
    £9,650 22/05/2020
    4
    The funding will be used to provide online and phone counselling for people experiencing mental health issues. The project aims to support the community through the Covid-19 pandemic.
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - COVID-19 Service Resilience
    £10,000 27/04/2020
    11
    Maintaining a strong connection online and by phone for service users with a trusted team of staff and volunteers.
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £10,000 27/03/2020
    Core Costs
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Bridewell Gardens Building Capacity
    £71,586 31/01/2020
    At 25, Bridewell has begun a programme of change to ready its staff, volunteers, governance structure, and garden site for the next 25 years. This project will invest in physical and operational infrastructure to improve our long-term impact: - ....more
    Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Helping people with mental health problems into employment and voluntary work
    £4,754 26/11/2018
    11
    creating an environment where service users are welcomed, interact with others (users, staff and volunteers) and are able to us their time at Bridewell to maximum effect in terms of their recovery from mental ill-health.
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £7,000 12/12/2017
    Core Costs
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (7)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    • ANDREW VARDE Appointed: 2018
    • DANIE WOODBRIDGE Appointed: 2022
    • HEIDI MELINDA BLACK Appointed: 2019
    • RICHARD KHOSLA-STEVENS Appointed: 2015
    • ROBERT CHAPLIN MB CHB Appointed: 2019
    • SANDRA CLARKE Appointed: 2019
    • STEPHEN MARSHALL Appointed: 2021
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/09/2014, number: 1158456
    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
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • Investment
    • 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; all on time
    Main office

    Bridewell Organic Gardens
    The Walled Garden
    Wilcote
    CHIPPING NORTON
    OX7 3DT

    Objectives

    TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM AND LIVING WITH A RANGE OF HEALTH PROBLEMS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEIR NEEDS THROUGH HORTICULTURE AND WORKSHOPS RELATING TO RURAL CRAFTS

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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