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home >> charity search >> 3food4u
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

3FOOD4U 

Daily Foodbank with support services and weekly Social Cafes.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

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

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
06/04/23£225,023£192,908£32,115280
06/04/22£226,578£203,733£22,845220
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 3 years

www.3food4u.org

info.3food4u@gmail.com

01992842642

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other individual and family services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 280 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
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Co-Operative Group£9,138
Essex Community Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to 3Food4U – Chigwell
£2,011 21/10/2023
We would like to offer free groceries, clothes and essentials without assessment or referral to anyone who needs it.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to 3Food4U – Ongar
£1,188 21/10/2023
We would like to offer free groceries, clothes and essentials without assessment or referral to anyone who needs it.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to 3Food4U – Tottenham Bruce Grove
£3,558 21/10/2023
We would like to offer free groceries, clothes and essentials without assessment or referral to anyone who needs it.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to 3food4u
£5,000 11/05/2023
towards the rent for an organisation distributing free food for people in need in Epping Forest
Co-Operative Group - Grant to 3food4u
£2,381 22/10/2022
We would like to offer free groceries, clothes and essentials without assessment or referral to anyone that needs it.
National Lottery Community Fund - Harlow Community Surplus Hub
£10,000 25/03/2021
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The funding will be used to set up a new food and essential items hub to support communities in Harlow. The project aims to provide families in need with access to emergency supplies that have been ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/11/2020, number: 1192310
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
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • 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
2 returns made; all on time
Main office

13 Sun Street
Waltham Abbey
Essex
EN9 1ER

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE IN LIVING IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY OTHER CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.B) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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