Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

THE HYGIENE BANK 

The Hygiene Bank accepts products that are donated by local communities and partner organisations redistributes them to those who need them.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Established: 5 years

www.thehygienebank.com

enquiries@thehygienebank.com

07593054190

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
31/03/23£6,781£6,804£-23£90£429£2100.412626
31/03/22?£7,227£7,058£168£49£452£1920.38509
31/12/20£4,170£3,967£203£33£284£1800.50409
31/12/19£118£46£72n/an/an/an/an/a198
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 49%
Reserves/Spending: 0.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 12 employees
  • 626 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Co-Operative Group£20,434
CAF£11,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£9,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - The Hygiene Bank
£5,000 01/11/2022
Investing in The Hygiene Bank to support our work across the Northeast of England.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Hygiene Bank Barnet
£1,117 22/10/2022
We would like to purchase hygiene products for our projects. Our network exists to give people free access to the basics they need. Feeling clean should not be a privilege for anyone in our society.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Beneficiaries will receive hygiene packs to ensure they can maintain good personal hygiene when they can’t afford to purchase their own products.
£9,900 20/09/2022
The Hygiene Bank Luton
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Hygiene Bank, Harpenden and St Albans
£8,834 23/10/2021
We will buy essential toiletries and donate them to those in extreme need in our community and beyond so that they may be clean, healthy and feel an improved sense of self-worth and dignity.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Hygiene Bank Tenterden and Cranbrook
£6,798 23/10/2021
We aim to purchase hygiene products to distribute to those in hygiene poverty.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Hygiene Bank Northern Ireland
£1,867 23/10/2021
We aim to give dignity to individuals who are struggling, by providing basic items to keep themselves clean, like soap, shower gel, oral care items and sanitary products. Babies are provided for too.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Hygiene Bank, Sevenoaks
£1,818 23/10/2021
We will buy hygiene products so that we can continue trying to meet the huge need for these items.
National Lottery Community Fund - Essential hygiene packs for families experiencing hygiene poverty.
£10,000 30/09/2021
The funding will be used to deliver hygiene packs to low and no income families in the community providing people with the basic items required to keep clean with the aim of reducing hygiene poverty ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The Hygiene Bank
£250 08/06/2021
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Suffolk Community Foundation - Covid Local Support Grant
£2,000 20/05/2021
Hardship Funding Round 5.
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - the provision of essential items to people in hardship in Newcastle
£3,000 18/02/2021
the provision of essential items to people in hardship in Newcastle
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to The Hygiene Bank CIO
£1,450 24/08/2020
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to continue to provide essential hygiene products for Soham families in financial need due to 90% fall in public donations (1,500 beneficiaries)
Suffolk Community Foundation - Suffolk's hardship fund
£3,520 21/08/2020
2
To supply hygiene kits for children in primary and secondary schools as well as 61 in the local community.
CAF - Grant to The Hygiene Bank
£10,000 24/06/2020
3
Grant to The Hygiene Bank to support the organisation through COVID19
Suffolk Community Foundation - COVID-19 response
£3,310 05/06/2020
3
Towards the cost of hygiene products distributed via the food banks in the Lowestoft area during the Covid 19 lock down.
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - The Hygiene Bank Soham
£1,802 21/05/2020
to provide essential hygiene products for Soham families in financial need due to the closure of the local drop-off points (1,500 beneficiaries)
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - The Hygiene Bank, Harpenden and ST Albans
£3,000 19/05/2020
Grant to The Hygiene Bank
CAF - Grant to The Hygiene Bank - Strood & Hoo Peninsula
£1,000 27/04/2020
Grant to The Hygiene Bank - Strood & Hoo Peninsula to support the organisation through COVID19
Crisis UK - Grant to the Hygiene Bank
£5,000 09/04/2020
Purchase of basic hygiene essentials products in bulk for network of community partners
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/12/2018, number: 1181267
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
4 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from DONCASTER BUSINESS FOR THE COMMUNITY on 28/02/2024
Main office

D A C Beachcroft
The Walbrook Building
25 Walbrook
LONDON
EC4N 8AF

Objectives

The objects of the CIO are: The relief of people living in the United Kingdom and such parts of the world as the trustees shall from time to time determine who are in conditions of financial need, hardship or distress, in particular but not exclusively by: (1) Providing or assisting other charities and organisations by the provision of toiletries and other essential hygiene products; (2) Making grants or donations of toiletry gifts, make-up and grooming products that will improve the conditions of life of such people; (3) Assisting in the establishment of projects throughout the world that will prevent or relieve financial need, hardship or distress by the provision of toiletries and other essential hygiene products; (4) Improving the lives and prospects of such people by challenging injustice through research, policy, collaboration and advocacy.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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