Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 9

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 11

BABY NECESSITIES SOUTHAMPTON

Providing essential items to families with children under two, who are experience poverty or financial hardship.

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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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there 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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/12/23	£132	£108	£23	n/a
31/12/22	£70	£67	£3	n/a
31/12/21	£55	£35	£19	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

www.babynecessities.co.uk

Info@babynecessities.co.uk

01794 765240

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Hampshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£239,615
Postcode Society Trust	£12,000
Co-Operative Group	£1,857
Masonic Trust	£1,850

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,850	29/01/2024	Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Postcode Society Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£12,000	03/04/2023	This funding has ensured that we continue to alleviate child poverty and support more families than ever before.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000	29/03/2023	Core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Baby Necessities Southampton
£1,857	22/10/2022	We would like to provide toiletries and baby food to disadvantaged families with children under two years old.
National Lottery Community Fund - Baby Necessities Baby Bank
£204,704	20/06/2022	This funding will support Baby Necessities Southampton to provide a baby bank service for individuals and families experiencing financial hardship or poverty in the Test Valley Southampton City Eastleigh and New Forest areas of Hampshire through the ....more This funding will support Baby Necessities Southampton to provide a baby bank service for individuals and families experiencing financial hardship or poverty in the Test Valley Southampton City Eastleigh and New Forest areas of Hampshire through the provision of free essential items for babies and children up to the age of 11. The items will include clothes food toys and equipment such as pushchairs and cots to ensure babies children and their families have the critical items needed.
National Lottery Community Fund - Baby Necessities Southampton
£34,911	07/06/2021	IntroductionBaby Necessities Southampton will use the funding to expand their work redistributing baby items to families in need around Southampton Hampshire. The project will also look to move its operations to a rented warehouse unit to enable ....more IntroductionBaby Necessities Southampton will use the funding to expand their work redistributing baby items to families in need around Southampton Hampshire. The project will also look to move its operations to a rented warehouse unit to enable safe storage of more baby items and to have a more welcoming space when people drop off and collect donations. This will also include an office base for staff running the organisation.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CHRISTOPHER HEY Appointed: 2022

GARY ESSERY Appointed: 2023

IMOGEN HOOTON Appointed: 2022

RACHAEL REYNOLDS Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/03/2021, number: 1193806

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

Baby Necessities
Unit C1
The Premier Centre
Premier Way
ROMSEY
Hampshir

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG PARENTS AND FAMILIES OF BABIES AND YOUNG CHILDREN IN SOUTHAMPTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA OF HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING DONATED CHILDREN'S CLOTHES AND BASIC ESSENTIAL ITEMS.

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