Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

THE PEPPER FOUNDATION 

The Pepper Foundation provides funding for the Rennie Grove Hospice at Home Children's Nurses & Family Support Team who care for & support terminally ill or chronically sick children & families at home. Funds are raised through quality events, eg. musical concerts, balls etc; applications to grant-making bodies; donations; presentations to corporate businesses & local interested groups.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 28 years
(31 years as a company)

www.pepper.org.uk

ask@pepper.org.uk

01442507311

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£405£332£73n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/22£316£331£-15n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/21£427£603£-177n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/20£286£305£-19n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/03/19£264£237£28n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/18£300£332£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£299£418£-119£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£294£436£-142£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£414£400£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£703£432£271£156£721£3198.920
31/03/13£468£499£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£633£410£223£131£482£42112.310
31/03/11£149£279£-129£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£179£256£-77£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£461£351£111£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£457£242£215£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£122£167£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£283£220£63£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£117£49£68£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£112£441£-329£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 150 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£30,000
True Colours Trust£10,000
Masonic Trust£500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
True Colours Trust - Towards the salary of a play specialist to deliver hospice at home services
£10,000 27/06/2023
Towards the salary of a play specialist to deliver hospice at home services.
National Lottery Community Fund - Quality time for children with life-limiting conditions
£10,000 20/01/2023
The funding will be used towards the annual salary of an existing play specialist. The project aims to alleviate the suffering of people aged 0-19 with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£500 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
National Lottery Community Fund - Quality Time for Children and Families with Life-limiting illness
£10,000 29/10/2020
6
The funding will be used to provide specialist equipment to children living with life limiting illnesses. The project aims to improve children’s quality of life for children and their carers during ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Addressing social isolation for families
£10,000 27/06/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to provide the salary for a coordinator to provide more events and activities for children living with debilitating health conditions.
True Colours Trust - support for siblings project
£5,000 21/03/2016
support for siblings project

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 42-79
  • DIPAK SAPAT Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/07/1996, number: 1056823
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/03/1993, number: 02797940
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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; AR16: 2 days late, AR08: 12 days late, AR06: 0 days late,
Main office

Unit 3
Icknield Way Industrial Park
Icknield Way
TRING
Hertfordshire
HP23 4JX

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE CARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL, AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY (FOR FURTHER DETAILS, SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM)

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE - HERTFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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