Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

THE FOOD TRAIN LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

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 ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23 31/03/24
Charitable activities £1,585,669 £1,524,530 £2,126,074 £2,608,128 £1,961,322 £2,067,557
Donations & Legacies £118,445 £107,775 £105,204 £434,424 £150,240 £106,885
Other Income £1,653 £4,464
Investment Income £959 £1,619 £3,462 £286 £4,346 £6,913
Total income £1,764,667 £1,704,396 £2,295,656 £3,080,794 £2,352,585 £2,151,930 £2,204,505
Charitable activities spending £1,530,955 £1,811,024 £2,057,571 £2,393,059 £2,446,043 £2,050,258
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Other spending
Total spending £1,532,210 £1,815,525 £2,070,310 £2,394,325 £2,426,578 £2,453,112 £2,051,691
Surplus/deficit £232,457 -£111,129 £225,346 £686,469 -£73,993 -£301,182 £152,814
Established: 29 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Dumfries And Galloway
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Older 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
Postcode Care Trust£400,000
National Lottery Community Fund£186,172
Foundation Scotland£72,000
Scottish Government£64,330
Rank Foundation£25,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Multi-purpose Vehicle
£42,000 18/04/2024
11
To contribute to the cost of purchasing a second hand wheelchair accessible mini van which can be used for both grocery deliveries and outings for older people in Stranraer and the Rhins, benefiting health and wellbeing.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Food Train East Renfrewshire
£2,892 21/10/2023
We'd like to expand our activities, making the full range of our services available to older people in East Renfrewshire.
Rank Foundation - CoL Core Grant Food Train Dumfries 2023 - Full
£25,000 27/04/2023
Food Train Dumfries received a Cost of Living Core Grant to help cover Fuel costs, office costs such as increased rent and utilities and volunteer costs.
Postcode Care Trust - 2023 Special Award
£200,000 16/02/2023
One-off award
Foundation Scotland - Older People's Lunch and Pop-up Cafe
£20,000 02/02/2023
13
Towards the costs of piloting a hot lunch project for existing older members (in the Dumfries area branch) and also open up a pop-up cafe three days a week in the Dumfries building social space, offering lunch to older people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 20/01/2023
Food Train - core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Friends reunited: re-building befriending services post-pandemic
£186,172 21/03/2022
This group will use the funding to continue its befriending services in Dumfries & Galloway and West Lothian supporting older people to become more socially active following the increased isolation experienced during the pandemic. The service is ....more
Postcode Care Trust - 2022 Special Award
£200,000 01/02/2022
One-off award
Co-Operative Group - Grant to West Lothian Food Train – supporting older people
£3,777 23/10/2021
We want to enhance the lives of older people and help enable them to live independently in their own home.
Tudor Trust - Grant to The Food Train
£2,000 05/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Foundation Scotland - Volunteer expenses
£10,000 29/06/2020
11
To support volunteer costs including travel costs, training, uniform, ID badges and out of pocket expenses.
Scottish Government - Food Train
£64,330 15/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
William Grant Foundation - Coronavirus Assistance
£20,000 20/04/2020
6
Unrestricted funding to support the charity's work addressing food insecurity and isolation in multiple locations across Scotland as a result of the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Stewartry Food Train
£2,943 15/11/2019
We want to provide vital services to local older people, grocery shopping and delivery, help in the home, befriending and meal-sharing.
Foundation Scotland - Replacement Van
£8,224 26/09/2019
9
To contribute to the cost of replacing a delivery van.
Tudor Trust - Grant to The Food Train
£120,000 26/03/2019
36
over three years to support financial remodelling, digital development and the extension beyone Scotland of Food Train's work supporting older people's ability to live independently
Glasgow City Council - Food Train Glasgow
£35,035 08/03/2019
Befriending day opportunity service for people aged 65+.
Glasgow City Council - Food Train Glasgow
£9,000 28/02/2019
Befriending day opportunity service for people aged 65+.
Glasgow City Council - Food Train Glasgow
£35,035 08/06/2018
Befriending day opportunity service for people aged 65+.
Glasgow City Council - South East Glasgow Food Train
£9,000 06/06/2018
A volunteer delivered grocery shopping delivery service to older people aged 65+ who are no longer able to manage independently due to age, ill health, frailty or disability
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Food Train Ltd
£2,890 29/11/2017
We want to continue to provide an essential service to older people in West Lothian which enables them to live independently at home.
National Lottery Community Fund - Eat Well, Age Well - Scotland's Malnutrition Task Force
£1,215,144 17/08/2017
59
Eat Well, Age Well - Scotland's Malnutrition Task Force
Glasgow City Council - Food Train Friends
£35,035 25/08/2016
Befriending day opportunity service for people aged 65+.
John Ellerman Foundation - Development Manager to expand work to England & Wales
£63,300 21/07/2016
21
Towards the salary costs of a Development Manager to take its model of supporting elderly people from Scotland to elsewhere in the UK.
Tudor Trust - Grant to The Food Train
£65,000 17/12/2015
24
over two years to support the development of a Scottish charity supporting older people to live independently at home through a variety of regional support services
Robertson Trust - The Food Train Friends Programme in Dundee
£30,000 30/06/2015
The Food Train Friends Programme in Dundee
National Lottery Community Fund - Food Train Friends
£590,474 09/10/2013
60
This project will deliver a befriending service in Annandale & Eskdale and Dumfries, and expand into Upper Nithsdale, Stewartry, Wigtownshire and the Machars. The service will provide face to face and telephone support for vulnerable and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 29-69
  • DAVIS, Roger Bruce
    Appointed: 2022
    Occupation: Judicial Member, Mental Health Tribunals Scotland
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 15/04/1996, number: SC024843
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/05/1995, number: SC158165
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

118 , English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2DE

Objectives

To relieve the poverty of disabled, infirm and housebound persons and other persons in necessitous circumstances in Dumfries and it's environs.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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