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Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

LEICESTER SOUTH FOODBANK

The relief of financial hardship amongst people in Leicestershire by: a) providing emergency food, essential toiletries, and household items to people in need and/or for distribution by charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty b) such other means, including the provision of support or signposting to relevant information and other advisory service
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
30/09/23£797£692£105£0£444£4107.1465
30/09/22£619£604£15£0£339£2444.9340
30/09/21£643£491£152£0£324£2055378
30/09/20£399£317£82n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£152£114£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18*£82£45£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/17£17£10£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
24/09/16£14£6£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 7.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 23.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 9 years

www.leicestersouth.foodbank.org.uk

info@leicestersouth.foodbank.org.uk

07973145019

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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Leicester City, Leicestershire,
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
The Trussell Trust£471,928
Alex Ferry Foundation£5,000
Masonic Trust£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£68,139 24/08/2023
Contribution towards Operational Manager's salary (60%) for OLM work and on-costs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£5,000 21/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£18,803 22/07/2022
Volunteer & Training Co-ordinator 16 hpw
Masonic Trust - MCF Festival
£3,000 26/05/2022
Core Funding for Leicester South Foodbank.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£84,765 25/05/2022
0.8 FTE Advice Navigator to support existing FI service
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000 07/01/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£1,238 17/11/2021
Volunteer training
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£135,311 01/06/2021
24
In-house debt advisor (20 hpw) and Helping Hands Community Trust benefits advisor (20 hpw) for 2 years
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£129,719 07/05/2021
Regional warehouse for 7 foodbanks
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£28,954 26/03/2021
24
Employment costs of Operational Manager, 2 dpw for 2 years
Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
£5,000 02/07/2020
community grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£3,827 15/08/2019
New PT food bank supervisor
National Lottery Community Fund - Advocacy and Advice
£8,901 30/01/2019
12
This funding will be used to extend the hours of an advice worker at a local food bank. The project aims to provide support to people outside of the service sessions.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£22,297 12/12/2018
Van purchase + 2Y running costs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£4,974 31/10/2018
Advocacy service for clients
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Leicester South Foodbank
£9,990 13/06/2018
12
towards one year's salary of the Operations Manager at a foodbank in Leicester
National Lottery Community Fund - Advocacy and Advice
£8,739 27/09/2017
12
This charity will set up a signposting and advocacy service for people who use its food bank, providing them with access to advice and support to help them deal with issues they are facing.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANNEMARIE COSSAR Appointed: 2024
  • CHRISTOPHER BATTY Appointed: 2022
  • GEOFF ADAMS Appointed: 2015
  • JOHN NICHOLAS SIMON Appointed: 2022
  • PATRICIA KENDALL Appointed: 2022
  • PETER DUNDAS (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • RAKESH VEJA Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/03/2016, number: 1166104
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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; AR18: 28 days late,
Main office

THE KINGS CENTRE
56 BULL HEAD STREET
WIGSTON
LE18 1PA

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL LEICESTERSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTYB) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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