Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

WASTE NOT WANT NOT BATTERSEA 

Rescuing food from being wasted , distributing it in the community, cooking in big community events, Fundraising events etc. COVID-19 response food parcels for self isolating vulnerable residents of Wandsworth, holiday activities and feeding to children on free school meals etc....
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£139,731£80,371£59,360300
31/03/22£95,956£58,477£37,479200
31/03/21£76,675£50,338£26,3372
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

WWW.WASTENOTWANTNOT-BATTERSEA.ORG

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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
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 300 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
DCMS£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,455
The London Community Foundation£7,715
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Composting Project
£9,455 30/09/2021
The funding will be used to run an ‘adopt a composter’ project to help people in the local community recycle food waste. The compost created will then be distributed to local organisations and ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Waste Not Want Not Battersea
£7,715 15/12/2020
17
We are asking for funding to support our winter food sharing project and Christmas Dinner project, which will provide meals to those most in need at Christmas.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 08/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/02/2020, number: 1187801
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

9-10 Bramlands Close
London
LONDON
SW11 2NT

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN NEED, AND TO OTHER CHARITIES OR NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY;(B) TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF WASTE REDUCTION, RE-USE, RECLAMATION, RECYCLING, USE OF RECYCLED PRODUCTS AND THE USE OF SURPLUS.THE AREA OF BENEFIT IS GREATER LONDON, AND IN PARTICULAR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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