Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ALEXANDRA ROSE CHARITY

Alexandra Rose Charities is a charity established in memory of the Late Queen Alexandra. Its current operations are focused on promoting and assisting projects for the welfare and development of children and young people across the Greater London area and the UK through the Rose Voucher scheme whereby mothers on low incomes can be helped to feed their young children healthy food..
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£1,490£1,639£-149£213£572£3352.5130
31/03/23£1,414£1,358£56£157£699£3673.2120
31/03/22£995£972£23£130£663£3664.598
31/03/21£858£730£128£54£628£3736.1715
31/03/20?£539£537£3£65£477£3457.7612
31/03/18?£632£405£228£42£486£3249.630
31/12/16£140£214£-75n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£53£167£-114n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£38£110£-72n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13*£29£60£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£50£124£-75n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£199£335£-136n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£282£297£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£277£302£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£262£306£-44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£293£322£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/06£373£235£138n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£262£143£118n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£163£119£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 15.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 29%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 59%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1.9
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 62 years
(91 years as a company)

http://www.alexandrarose.org.uk

mark@alexandrarose.org.uk

01252726171

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnsley, Liverpool City, Throughout London,
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
Esmee Fairbairn£169,199
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity£117,847
Garfield Weston Foundation£100,000
National Lottery Community Fund£81,969
The Childhood Trust£50,500
Foundation Scotland£45,000
Comic Relief£40,000
City Bridge Trust£38,368
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Childhood Trust - Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project
£12,500 20/06/2023
The Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project helps families on low incomes with young children to buy fresh fruit and veg in their local communities. Families get £4 of Rose Vouchers per child and £6 if the child is under one, which they can ....more
The Childhood Trust - C-59032
£10,000 28/06/2022
The Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project helps families on low-incomes buy fresh fruit and veg & in their local community and supports them to give their children the healthiest possible start. Families get £3 of Rose Vouchers per child, ....more
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg – Barnsley & Liverpool
£25,000 27/06/2022
Funding helped us to put healthy, fresh and nutritious food on the table for over 950 vulnerable children from 635 families on low incomes.
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Fruit and Veg on Prescription - Lambeth Pilot - Evaluation
£48,000 20/06/2022
To support Alexandra Rose Charity to evaluate their pilot project to trail fruit and vegetables on prescription in Lambeth
The Childhood Trust - Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project
£18,000 12/06/2022
The Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project helps families on low incomes buy fresh fruit and veg & in their local community and supports them to give their children the healthiest possible start. Families get £3 of Rose Vouchers per child, ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 20/05/2022
24
Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg (Barnsley & Liverpool)
The Childhood Trust - Rose Vouchers for Fruit and Veg Project
£10,000 08/12/2020
The Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project helps families on low-incomes buy fresh fruit and veg & supports them to give their children the healthiest possible start. Families get £3 of Rose Vouchers per child, £6 if the child is under one. ....more
Comic Relief - Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project (RVP)
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - voucher expansion
£69,847 21/06/2020
Working with ARC and Lambeth Council to extend Rose Vouchers scheme to families
National Lottery Community Fund - The Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project
£81,969 18/06/2020
6
Over the next six months this organisation after seeing an increase in need will sign up 650 more families to receive Rose Vouchers while continuing to support the 1100 families already registered on the project. Five new children’s centres will ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Alexandra Rose Charity
£38,368 11/06/2020
£38,368 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Alexandra Rose Charity (ARC)
£19,199 19/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Alexandra Rose Charity (ARC)
£150,000 12/05/2020
24
Towards unrestricted core costs developing the Rose Vouchers Project as a locally led model providing fresh fruit and vegetables to over 5,000 families experiencing food insecurity and building the evidence base for wider systems change
Foundation Scotland - The Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project
£45,000 19/03/2020
35
To contribute towards launching the Rose Vouchers project in Calton, Glasgow.
Dulverton Trust - Rose Vouchers: Barnsley, Liverpool, Glasgow
£35,000 12/02/2020
Rose Vouchers: Barnsley, Liverpool, Glasgow
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£60,000 07/02/2020
24
Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg
Comic Relief - Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg Project (RVP)
£51,500 03/07/2019
9
Rose Vouchers for Fruit and Veg Programme (RVP) supports families on low incomes to avoid food poverty & access a healthy diet by providing vouchers for fresh fruit & veg redeemable only at local markets & community food projects. Since ....more
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Rose Voucher Scheme ext
£1,181,710 20/03/2019
Extension of Rose Voucher Scheme 2019-22
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 18/10/2018
Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg
Tudor Trust - Grant to Alexandra Rose Charity
£60,000 17/07/2018
24
over two years towards the core costs of the Rose Voucher scheme, providing access to fresh fruit and vegetables to low income families across the UK, currently in London, Liverpool and Barnsley
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Rose Voucher Scheme, ESM
£237,273 19/12/2017
Rose Voucher Scheme part of the Faraday Ward MVP Layering up activity
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 29/06/2017
Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Alexandra Rose Charity (ARC)
£150,000 04/04/2017
36
Towards core costs to scale up a successful model for increasing the consumption of fruit and vegetables by families living on low incomes.
National Lottery Community Fund - Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg
£372,790 17/03/2017
43
Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg
Comic Relief - Rose Vouchers for Fruit & Veg - Tech to Scale
£49,997 15/03/2017
4
Alexandra Rose Charity currently support over 250 low income families with fruit and vegetable vouchers for local food markets, with evidence of improving their healthy eating. They are developing technology to automate reimbursing market traders. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Rose Vouchers
£48,900 28/06/2016
12
This is grant is to develop a project enabling parents with young children on low incomes to buy fresh fruit and vegetables, while developing the skills and confidence to cook with them. As well as improving health, this has the added benefit of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 29-46
  • ALISON MAIRI INGLIS-JONES WILLIAMS Appointed: 2023
  • CATHERINE ELLISTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Head Of Campaigning
  • CELIA ESME LOUISE COLE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retail Strategy Manager
  • CHARLES CLARKE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Software Engineer
  • DR CARLY PALMER FOSTER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Assistant Professor
  • MARA ELIZABETH LARSON-RICHARD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Vp, International
  • PATRICIA FANNY KOKOCINSKA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Business Manager
  • RASLEEN KAHAI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Dietitian
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/10/1962, number: 211535
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/08/1933, number: 00279157
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 02/28/2017, current status: Large charity (levy paid)
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR13: 46 days late,
Main office

COMMUNITY BASE
113 QUEENS ROAD
BRIGHTON
BN1 3XG

Objectives

TO PROMOTE IN REMEMBRANCE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN GREATER LONDON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PRIMARILY LONDON, ITS SUBURBS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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