Overall GiG Score: 18 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +9

FEAST WITH US 

Each FEAST is a community meal held in hostels and community centres made with vulnerable people suffering food poverty using surplus food donated by local retailers. Based in North London boroughs, FEAST partners with local food distributors and volunteer groups from diverse populations. During lockdown, FEAST is an essential doorstep food parcel delivery service to vulnerable people.
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 since inception
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • 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
Established: 7 years

www.feastwithus.org.uk

info@feastwithus.org.uk

02078710094

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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
31/12/22£264£225£39n/an/an/an/an/a275
31/12/21£262£202£60n/an/an/an/an/a100
31/12/20£80£66£14n/an/an/an/an/a700
31/12/19£38£25£13n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/12/18*£32£7£25£0£0£0n/a00
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 275 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Camden, Haringey, Islington,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£127,879
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Joseph Levy Foundation£10,000
The London Community Foundation£8,500
Camden Giving£6,230
London Catalyst£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - FEAST With Us: Communal Dining
£117,899 17/08/2023
This project will use funding to work with community partners to coordinate volunteers to use surplus food to cook nutritious meals for and with people experiencing food poverty.Since 2015 FEAST With ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 17/06/2022
FEAST With Us: Nutrition. Community. Sustainability (core costs)
Camden Giving - Feast with Us
£6,230 16/02/2022
A new cookery education programme alongside communal dining for street homeless men
National Lottery Community Fund - FEAST With Us- Rebuilding Community during and after Covid-19
£9,980 19/03/2021
2
The funding will be used to address food poverty amongst homeless vulnerable and marginalised people in the Haringey area using surplus foods from local supermarkets and other providers in the food ....more
London Catalyst - FEAST With Us - 2
£1,000 17/03/2021
FEAST's food parcel delivery service to vulnerable people: Private Benefactor donation
Joseph Levy Foundation - Covid-19: staff costs
£10,000 08/02/2021
3
Covid-19: staff costs to support the distribution of food to homeless and vulnerable people across London
London Catalyst - FEAST With Us - 1
£3,000 03/12/2020
Coordinating FEAST's food parcel delivery service to vulnerable people in London.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Feast With Us
£8,500 16/06/2020
This funding will help: FEAST! adapt its service delivery to continue to use surplus food to provide nutritious meals to targeted vulnerable adults; increase capacity so that FEAST! reaches more ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/05/2017, number: 1172884
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR18: 61 days late,
Main office

2A The Quadrant
EPSOM
Surrey
KT17 4RH

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THE PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF HEALTH AMONGST VULNERABLE ADULTS LIVING IN THE UK BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH REGULAR NUTRITIOUS MEALS, WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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