Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 7

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 8

GREEN FUTURES GREATER GRIMSBY LTD

Green Futures is a Community Garden Project, which utilises the 3.5 acre site to provide gardening and horticulture activities for the benefit of North East Lincolnshire residents. Providing a community space for people to come together; promoting friendship and social inclusion in a welcoming environment, helping to improve people's health and well-being and improving capacity and skills.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 5 years
(14 years as a company)

www.greenfuturesgrimsby.co.uk

info@greenfuturesgrimsby.co.uk

07912682970

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£71,955	£98,274	£-26,319	50
31/03/22	£130,982	£91,612	£39,370	50
31/03/21	£64,783	£71,156	£-6,373	20
31/03/20	£110,504	£103,143	£7,361	40

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

North East Lincolnshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
50 volunteers

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - reducing social isolation
£8,895	16/09/2022	The funding will be used to run volunteering opportunities and bring people together over the winter.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation - Green Futures Greater Grimsby Ltd PHP Community Impact Fund
£4,185	21/12/2021	Community Garden Wellbeing Workshops
National Lottery Community Fund - Keeping it Green
£35,000	25/01/2021 5	The funding will provide support mechanisms for a wide range of people to help people access the outdoors such as gardening tips online free gardening packs one-to-one telephone support and more. The ....more The funding will provide support mechanisms for a wide range of people to help people access the outdoors such as gardening tips online free gardening packs one-to-one telephone support and more. The aim is to improve wellbeing and reduce feelings of isolation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creating Greener Futures
£158,249	03/11/2017 36	The group will increase and improve their gardening and horticultural volunteering opportunities. Volunteering roles are open for anyone, however the majority of volunteers are men who have a mental ....more The group will increase and improve their gardening and horticultural volunteering opportunities. Volunteering roles are open for anyone, however the majority of volunteers are men who have a mental or physical health issue, or a mild disability. The project will bring people together to combat social isolation and depression, and it will also improve the skills and knowledge of local people.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-79

ANDREW POPPLETON Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeship: EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF PHILIP AND SARAH STANFORD,

BRENDA DIXON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

JONATHAN ABBA Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Clerical

SIMONE SCAMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director

VIC GOOSE (Chair) Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/12/2018, number: 1181124
Registered at Companies House on 08/06/2009, number: 06926987

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

GREEN FUTURES LTD
BRADLEY ROAD
BRADLEY
GRIMSBY
DN37 0AA

Objectives

1) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS AND THE COMMUNITY OF NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND/OR ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

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