Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

THE MATTHEW 25 MISSION

relieve sickness and financial hardship in promoting and preserving good health and advancing this in accordance with Christian principles by the provision of funds food and services
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • 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£240£236£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£305£199£106n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£175£181£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£185£170£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£128£116£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£111£85£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£104£68£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£59£74£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

https://www.matthew25mission.org/

manager@matthew25mission.org

01323 726960

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Christian religious associations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Sussex,
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
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Sussex Community Foundation£17,180
DCMS£10,000
Co-Operative Group£3,394
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to The Matthew 25 Mission
£2,500 17/11/2023
Funding was requested towards core staff costs.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Matthew 25 Mission
£3,394 21/10/2023
We'd like to replace our van to enable us to collect food and charity shop donations, deliver food parcels and meals, move people into accommodation, and take people to healthcare appointments.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Matthew 25 Mission
£10,000 13/12/2022
Funding was provided towards the costs of a key-worker/kitchen manager.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 04/04/2022
24
CSI Response
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Matthew 25 Mission
£2,680 16/07/2021
8
Funding was provided for IT equipment and training at their centre.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£10,000 27/11/2020
Core Costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 23/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Matthew 25 Mission
£2,000 06/04/2020
Matthew 25 Mission support homeless and disadvantaged people in Eastbourne. Funding to help maintain core provision of the charity's food purchases for three months, which have now adapted to a takeaway service.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The Matthew 25 Mission
£10,000 12/12/2018
12
towards one year's running costs of a drop in centre and support service for vulnerable people in Eastbourne, East Sussex
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The Matthew 25 Mission
£10,000 07/09/2017
12
towards one year's running costs of a drop in centre and support service for vulnerable people in Eastbourne
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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: 56-69
  • DAVID MICHAEL LOFTHOUSE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • JILL KIRKDALE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • JULIE BURGESS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • SIMON KIRKDALE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • STJOHN GARDNER VAN NIFTRIK Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/09/2015, number: 1163389
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/06/2015, number: 09649569
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
  • Paying staff
  • 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
8 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from WINNING HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL on 13/11/2023
Main office

BRODIE HALL
CHRIST CHURCH
SEASIDE
EASTBOURNE
EAST SUSSEX
BN22 7NN

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH AND EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND IN EASTBOURNE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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