Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Liabilities <10%: +3
Excess reserves: -3
Fundraising costs high: -2

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 14

THE FOOD MUSEUM

Museum of rural life and educational and training centre

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has a robust balance sheet
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 age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £3,668,058 available, equivalent to 35 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

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		£1,739	£1,245	£494	£304	£3,858	£3,668	35.3	47	150
31/03/23		£1,332	£1,310	£22	£140	£3,528	£972	8.9	48	80
31/03/22	*	£1,629	£1,414	£215	£93	£3,279	£408	3.5	41	100
31/03/21		£797	£682	£114	£39	£3,065	£369	6.5	21	15
31/03/20?		£1,073	£733	£340	£73	£2,950	£282	4.6	21	15
31/03/18		£589	£565	£25	£56	£2,449	£224	4.8	18	0
31/03/17		£527	£554	£-27	£46	£2,062	£145	3.1	19	0
31/03/16		£512	£518	£-7	£32	£2,090	£153	3.5	20	0
31/03/15	*	£910	£907	£3	£33	£2,083	£119	1.6	24	0
31/03/14		£1,041	£1,143	£-102	£57	£2,080	£138	1.5	35	0
31/03/13		£1,023	£1,035	£-12	£53	£2,182	£254	2.9	34	0
31/03/12?		£2,685	£1,914	£771	£1,793	£2,194	£57	0.4	18	0
28/02/11		£794	£764	£30	£78	£1,295	£81	1.3	16	0
28/02/10		£419	£413	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/09		£457	£393	£63	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
29/02/08		£351	£347	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/07		£365	£364	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/06		£290	£234	£57	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/05	*	£362	£327	£35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
28/02/04	*	£216	£175	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 21.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 24.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 35.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 0.5

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 39 years

www.foodmuseum.org.uk

contact@foodmuseum.org.uk

01449612229

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Recreation

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

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

DCMS	£406,323
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£234,541
The Linbury Trust	£50,000
Suffolk Community Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Energy efficiency - Food Museum
£50,000	13/12/2023	A grant focused on energy efficiency towards a new solar array and battery storage.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Food Museum Ltd
£86,541	12/09/2023	The Kitchen Project
Suffolk Community Foundation - Skills Kitchen - Beginning with Bread
£5,000	25/06/2021 1	Towards the Skills Kitchen - Beginning with Bread, offered at the Museum of East Anglian Life.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Museum of East Anglian Life
£48,800	18/08/2020	COVID19: Museum of East Anglian Life
DCMS - National Portfolio organisations 2018-22
£150,218	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - Covid October-March
£91,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - Museum of East Anglian Life
£165,105	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Museum of East Anglian Life
£99,200	23/01/2020	Restoration of Alton Watermill
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - NPO 2018-22: Band 1
£147,504	01/04/2018 11	National portfolio organisation- are leaders in their areas, with a collective responsibility to protect and develop our national arts and cultural ecology.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Museum of East Anglian Life
£48,400	28/07/2015	Dining through the Decades

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 44-72

ALEXANDER ROBERT TIMOTHY BUTLER-ZAGNI Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor

ANNE CHRISTINE HARRISON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Director

DR CLARE KATHARINE BARLOW Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Curator

JENNIFER HOLLY COUSINS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Director

JON HOWARD BRIGHTON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

JONATHAN MARK PATTLE Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Architect

MELISSA ANNE PATRICIA STRAUSS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Manager

RICHARD LISTER (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Cheif Executive

SIMON KENNETH HOOTON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

VANESSA TREVELYAN Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Director

WILLIAM DAVID ANDREW SEAMAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/12/1985, number: 293033
Registered at Companies House on 25/05/1984, number: 01819676

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
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

20 returns made; AR22: 2 days late, AR15: 272 days late, AR05: 24 days late, AR04: 8 days late,

Main office

The Food Museum
Crowe Street
STOWMARKET
Suffolk
IP14 1DL

Objectives

To advance the education of the public in the area of East Anglia in its social, cultural, industrial and technological heritage, as well as on health and wellbeing and nature and the environment, by the provision of a Museum that connects the people with where food comes from and the impact of our food choices: past, present and future.

Defined Area of Benefit:

EAST ANGLIA INCL. SUFFOLK, ESSEX, CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND NORFOLK

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