Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +9

    ABERDEENSHIRE NORTH FOODBANK 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
    Charitable activities
    Donations & Legacies
    Other Income
    Investment Income £10
    Total income £57,506 £55,568 £61,217 £232,023 £460,535 £476,849
    Charitable activities spending £414,576
    Fundraising costs
    Other spending
    Total spending £49,467 £54,172 £65,177 £95,077 £307,924 £414,576
    Surplus/deficit £8,039 £1,396 -£3,960 £136,946 £152,611 £62,273
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Aberdeenshire

    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
    The Trussell Trust£245,827
    Foundation Scotland£37,358
    Co-Operative Group£1,077
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £8,993 20/03/2023
    Advice & Cash First Development Lead role (FT, 1yr), Community Participation & Campaigns Lead (additional 1dpw for 1 year), FI Service (7hpw)
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £5,000 31/10/2022
    Emergency grant
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank - Inverurie Centre
    £1,077 22/10/2022
    We would like to provide slow cookers, pantry starter packs/advice and information booklets to those experiencing food insecurity; to help provide sustainable change for local people.
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £80,470 05/05/2022
    Chief Officer (Pathfinder Lead) post 2yr, FT
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £53,098 06/12/2021
    2 FI development coaches
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £37,358 28/06/2021
    To fund the establishment of a food space and related support services for people in need in the communities of Huntly, Strathbogie and Tap O Noth.
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £26,914 26/05/2021
    p/t staff with Changing Minds role
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £30,000 26/05/2021
    p/t staff member to lead on Lived experience work
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £30,000 24/07/2020
    Income maximisation - 2 advice workers
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £3,438 23/04/2020
    CV emergency costs: salary costs
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £3,957 11/02/2020
    P/T administrator 9hpw
    The Trussell Trust - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £3,957 11/02/2020
    P/T administrator 9hpw
    Robertson Trust - Towards the salary costs of the Part Time Foodbank Manager
    £14,000 21/11/2017
    Towards the salary costs of the Part Time Foodbank Manager
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Aberdeenshire North Foodbank
    £30,000 08/09/2016
    36
    towards three years' running costs of an emergency food bank in Aberdeenshire
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 06/08/2015, number: SC045884
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; AR19: 107 days late,
    Main office

    4 St James's Place, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 3UB

    Objectives

    4 The organisation is established for charitable purposes only. 4.1 The objects are the prevention or relief of poverty, principally but not exclusively by the provision of emergency food supplies to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty. 4.2 The purposes are carried out with a Christian ethos, supporting values and principles which promote social inclusion and anti-discriminatory practices.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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