Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 18
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +5
  • Overall weighted support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 28 ?

THE FELIX PROJECT

The Felix Project collects surplus food from all parts of the food supply chain and redistributes it to community organisations and schools that use the food for social good right across London. Most of the food would otherwise go to landfill or anaerobic digestion. In 2022 the charity delivered the equivalent of 29 million meals to over 1,000 organisations and worked with over 8,500 volunteers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

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£12,881£12,845£36£1,260£10,887£8,9868.416713,731
31/12/22£7,635£9,827£-2,192£868£10,851£8,29910.11438,599
31/12/21£8,324£6,761£1,563£749£12,847£10,98119.5933,987
31/12/20£12,360£3,633£8,727£699£11,284£10,6063539700
31/12/19£1,983£1,648£334£269£2,557£2,27916.622500
31/12/18£2,190£1,285£905£130£2,223£1,85217.3130
31/12/17£1,195£682£513£122£881£3736.680
31/12/16£535£167£368£23£368£36826.530

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 9.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £140,000-£150,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 34%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 8.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 2.8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 8 years

www.thefelixproject.org

info@thefelixproject.org

02030344350

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • 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
Greater London Authority£2,398,412
National Lottery Community Fund£417,598
City Bridge Trust£310,000
BBC Children in Need£300,000
Rothschild Foundation£202,000
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£200,000
Westminster Foundation£160,000
The Childhood Trust£144,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Felix Project
£5,000 06/06/2024
12
Unrestricted funding
The Aim Foundation - Grant to The Felix Project
£1,000 06/03/2024
12
Family Fund Donation
National Lottery Community Fund - Surplus food redistribution to London communities: The Felix Project
£417,598 19/07/2023
This funding will be used to support the development of their knowledge base to better support London’s most at risk communities and improve the long term sustainable impact of London’s voluntary sector. The project aims to deliver a free ....more
Greater London Authority - The Felix Project – expanding operational capacity
£424,462 24/04/2023
Support the Felix Project to expand its existing surplus food rescue and redistribution operations at all four of its warehouses from five days a week to six days a week over the course of one year. Funding will cover increases to staffing and ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Felix Project
£300,000 28/03/2023
36
The grant will support The Felix Project to provide food for children and young people by distributing rescued surplus food ingredients and nutritious meals prepared in Felix’s Kitchen to schools and community organisations across London
Greater London Authority - Free Holiday Meals programme
£1,973,950 24/03/2023
To reduce the prevalence of holiday food insecurity in London by providing grant funding to existing charitable pan-London providers of free and/or surplus food, allowing them to increase the equivalent number of meals delivered to low-income ....more
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to The Felix Project
£2,000 01/03/2023
Cost of living supplementary grant
The Childhood Trust - The Felix Schools Programme
£120,000 23/12/2022
The Felix Project's vision is a London where no one is hungry and good food is never wasted. Our mission is to get good quality, nutritious food to people in need by making use of the surplus food in the UK's food supply, saving it from becoming ....more
Mission 44 - Grant to The Felix Project
£125,000 07/12/2022
To help The Felix Project to embed young people in the Felix community, developing a strategy to engage young people from underserved backgrounds in their volunteering programme.
Pears Foundation - Core Funding
£100,000 07/12/2022
24
Core Funding
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Felix Project
£300,000 26/09/2022
36
£300,000 over 3 years (3 x £100,000) to cover the salary of a Head Chef at Felix’s Kitchen and to contribute to the costs of meal packaging and ingredients over three years.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to The Felix Project
£200,000 08/07/2022
We are requesting core cost funding so that we can continue our operations as the current cost of living crisis is affecting millions of vulnerable Londoners.
The Childhood Trust - C-58991
£20,000 28/06/2022
The Felix Project rescues surplus food and redistributes it for free to nearly 1000 charities in London who support people living in food poverty. Through our schools and holiday programmes we aim to provide enough food for over 2 million nutritious ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Financial modelling for school meal kits project
£15,000 30/03/2022
To explore the long-term financial feasibility and sustainability of The Felix Project's school meal kit idea
Wates Foundation - The Felix Project
£9,636 09/07/2020
To expand operations to reach as many people as possible who are vulnerable and in need of food.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Covid-19 Food Charity Grant Scheme
£100,000 29/06/2020
The aim of this activity is to provide immediate support for a limited period of time to keep food charities and front-line charities that provide food aid open and supporting those most vulnerable due to the economic impacts of Covid-19.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Covid-19 Food Charity Grant Scheme
£100,000 23/06/2020
The aim of this activity is to provide immediate support for a limited period of time to keep food charities and front-line charities that provide food aid open and supporting those most vulnerable due to the economic impacts of Covid-19.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Felix Project
£10,000 11/06/2020
£10,000.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£160,000 06/04/2020
3
London Food Alliance (Covid-19)
The Childhood Trust - Good food for good casues
£4,900 10/12/2019
We rescue good food that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste. This is enough food to make almost five million meals this year. We support over 300 charities and primary schools who provide food for vulnerable people across London. Every ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Increasing Surplus Food Redistribution through Overcoming Financial Barriers
£251,808 13/05/2019
To increase surplus food redistribution and therefore prevent food waste through making it economically viable for food businesses to redistribute their surplus rather than choosing a secondary option such as animal feed, anaerobic digestion or ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£75,000 20/06/2017
24
Park Royal Operational Hub and Central Support (Core costs)
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (14)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/14 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-70
  • ASI PANDITHARATNA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant
  • BEN SALAMA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • CATHERINE HELEN THORPE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Non Executive Director
  • CHAN JUN PARK Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Ceo
  • DAVID GLYN TREFOR HUDD Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Solicitor
  • FRANCESCO VANNI D'ARCHIRAFI Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Ceo
  • GAVIN JOHN DARBY (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Businessman
  • JANE ELIZABETH BYAM SHAW Appointed: 2017
  • JUSTIN DAVID ELLIOTT BYAM SHAW Appointed: 2016
  • JOHN MATTHEW BIRCH Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Country Manager Amazon Uk Fresh
  • JULIAN WAKEHAM Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Partner, Pwc
  • KARIN WOODLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • MICHAEL FRANCIS MILLERSHIP Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Company Director
  • PAUL DRECHSLER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Business Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/07/2016, number: 1168183
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/03/2016, number: 10068253
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 09/01/2018, current status: Large charity (levy paid)
Policies in force
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

c/o Sayer Vincent
Invicta House
108-114 Golden Lane
London
EC1Y 0TL

Objectives

To preserve and protect the environment and to relieve those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other social or economic disadvantage by the redistribution of surplus food to relieve the above needs.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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