Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

BAGS OF TASTE 

Mission:

1. To change the everyday diets of people who are either in, or who face food poverty, away from being dependent on highly processed and takeaway foods, to regularly cooking good, tasty, home-cooked food for themselves and their families. 2. To raise awareness of the numerous challenges surrounding healthy eating faced by those in poverty.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period
ending
Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost
Assets Employees Volunteers
31/08/22 £127,583 3 200
31/08/21 £85,955
31/08/20 £78,384
31/08/19 £47,994
31/08/18 £24,731
31/08/17 £26,300
31/08/16 £28,731
31/08/15 £24,458
Established: 10 years
Companies House
UN SDGs
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GiG Classification
  • Community food services
Who works here?
  • 3 employees
  • 200 volunteers

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
Sussex Community Foundation£16,625
National Lottery Community Fund£14,115
DCMS£13,147
Cripplegate Foundation£10,004
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£7,500
The MSE Charity£7,458
Tudor Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Bags of Taste
£4,125 17/11/2023
Funding was provided towards their mentored home cooking courses for vulnerable people in Hastings and Rother.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bags of Taste London Food poverty project
£10,000 16/12/2022
This project will support vulnerable people in food poverty by giving them the help and practical support they need to buy and cook tasty healthy and affordable food. The project will improve the ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Bags of Taste
£5,000 11/11/2022
Funding was provided for mentored home cooking classes in Hastings.
Sussex Community Foundation - Bags of Taste Mentored home cooking courses in Hastings
£7,500 25/02/2022
Funding was provided towards the running costs of their Mentored home cooking courses.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bags of Taste
£7,500 26/05/2021
50% as running costs for the delivery of virtual mentored programmes to enable families to feed themselves on a very low budget, learning food skills and resilience, in the London Borough of Haringey.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bags of Taste Virtual Courses Continuation
£4,115 23/04/2021
The funding will be used working in partnership with NACRO to continue their successful virtual healthy cooking and eating project for vulnerable people including those in temporary housing including ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Bags of Taste
£10,004 28/01/2021
Bags of Taste Cooking on a Budget
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bags of Taste Limited
£2,000 25/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
The MSE Charity - Grant to Bags of Taste
£7,458 15/11/2020
Delivery of food resilience courses to vulnerable groups
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£13,147 29/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bags of Taste Limited
£64,000 21/12/2018
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over two years towards the running costs of budget cookery courses in Margate and Hastings for people on low incomes
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Bags of Taste
£4,952 06/03/2018
Towards dietary behaviour change courses
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Cookery Classes
£45,954 14/02/2018
Low-cost cookery classes for parents in the Faraday area.
The Funding Network - Hastings and London
£27,449 06/11/2017
To support the continued expansion of our food poverty activites, both outside of London for the first time (Hastings) and through other methods like social franchising.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Bags of Taste
£4,973 07/03/2017
Towards the costs of Bags of Taste dietary behaviour change courses
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 36-57
  • FRY, Barbara
    Appointed: 2015
    Occupation: Director Of Operations
Legal constitution
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/08/2014, number: 09160945

Data Sources

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