Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 1

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Static board: -3

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -2

FURNITURE RECYCLING PROJECT

1. The prevention or relief of poverty and financial hardship by re-use, recycling and supplying of items of furniture, electrical appliances and other household items to persons in need2. The advancement of education by the provision of volunteering and learning opportunities3. The protection and perseveration of the environment for the public benefit via waste reduction, re-use and recycling

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 28 years

www.frpglos.org.uk

admin@frpglos.org.uk

01452524333

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£477	£430	£46	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/22	£308	£351	£-43	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/21	£383	£309	£74	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/20	£439	£506	£-67	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/19	£502	£520	£-18	£59	£160	£130	3	12	80
31/03/18	£506	£596	£-90	£55	£178	£137	2.8	15	0
31/03/17	£544	£574	£-30	£61	£267	£226	4.7	17	0
31/03/16	£438	£527	£-89	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£543	£620	£-77	£70	£387	£357	6.9	17	0
31/03/14	£836	£719	£117	£2	£464	£416	7	21	0
31/03/13	£863	£755	£108	£77	£347	£283	4.5	22	0
31/03/12	£711	£692	£19	£82	£239	£191	3.3	20	0
31/03/11	£715	£637	£77	£77	£220	£171	3.2	22	0
31/03/10	£618	£593	£25	£65	£142	£100	2	26	0
31/03/09	£500	£547	£-48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£558	£550	£7	£33	£165	£88	1.9	23	0
31/03/07	£610	£598	£13	£53	£158	£73	1.5	25	0
31/03/06	£438	£546	£-108	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£528	£506	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£534	£476	£58	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Gloucestershire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
25 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Learn to Succeed
£10,000	06/03/2020 12	The funding will be used to continue to deliver workplace training and courses including warehousing, retail, customer service and electrical testing for vulnerable groups and those who are ....more The funding will be used to continue to deliver workplace training and courses including warehousing, retail, customer service and electrical testing for vulnerable groups and those who are unemployed. The project aims to provide practical training and access to accredited awards to improve participants' volunteering, further education and employment opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Spark Change
£9,700	09/11/2018 12	The funding will be used to enhance the delivery of charitable furniture recycling operations. The project aims to train volunteers through equipping them with new skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Stack & Rack Efficiency Project
£8,425	19/07/2017 12	This group will use the funding to purchase storage equipment, developing the capacity of the group to distribute specialist chairs for people approaching end-of-life.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Furniture Recycling Project
£15,000	16/12/2015 12	providing safe and affordable furniture and tested electricals to disadvantaged individuals. This grant will fund a Woodwork Workshop Assistant to enable unemployed people to undertake volunteer ....more providing safe and affordable furniture and tested electricals to disadvantaged individuals. This grant will fund a Woodwork Workshop Assistant to enable unemployed people to undertake volunteer placements in woodwork to gain skills and experience.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Furniture Recycling Project
£73,600	17/09/2015 36	towards three years' salary of a Driver, plus running costs of a van, at a project that provides recycled furniture and electrical items to low income households in Gloucestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Furniture Reuse Distribution (FRED)
£294,959	08/12/2010 48	This project delivers items of used furniture and electrical items to disadvantaged households in the Gloucestershire area. It provides work experience and volunteer opportunities to young people and ....more This project delivers items of used furniture and electrical items to disadvantaged households in the Gloucestershire area. It provides work experience and volunteer opportunities to young people and unemployed adults, to encourage community members to donate household items as well as improving the environment by reducing the amount of waste going into landfill.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 31-78

DAWN MELVIN BATH (Chair) Appointed: 2014

DOUGLAS JOHN RUGG Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

JAMES MELVIN-BATH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Solicitor

JAN TAPPIN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/09/1996, number: 1057619
Registered at Companies House on 12/08/1996, number: 03236897

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; all on time

Main office

FURNITURE RECYCLING PROJECT
WAREHOUSE 5
WEST QUAY
THE DOCKS
GLOUCESTER
GL1 2EH

Objectives

TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORIES, CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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