Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 7
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

REAL FARMING TRUST 

The Trust supports farming and food production projects that are economically sound, democratic, socially just, humane to animals, and promote the long-term protection of the biosphere
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 27 years

www.realfarming.org

robert@realfarming.org

07815074712

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£614£822£-208£0£353£2423.5675
31/03/22£685£548£137£20£561£2756575
31/03/21£734£541£192£0£424£1553.4452
31/03/20£367£266£101n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/19£209£185£25n/an/an/an/an/a45
31/03/18£245£284£-39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£353£318£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£220£131£89£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£87£95£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£70£64£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£44£18£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£25£18£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£0£1£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£0£4£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£38£31£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£27£32£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£25£41£-16£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 69%
Liabilities/Income: 129%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 69%
Reserves/Spending: 3.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 6 employees
  • 75 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Esmee Fairbairn£907,478
National Lottery Community Fund£68,852
Rothschild Foundation£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Real Farming Trust
£20,000 25/09/2023
Towards the operational costs of the Oxford Real Farming Conference January 2024, in particularly helping with accessibility such as livestreaming, bursaries and associated staff time.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Real Farming Trust
£100,000 12/07/2023
Towards project costs a contribution to the revenue and mentoring costs associated with the delivery of social investment 22-0768
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment Real Farming Trust
£565,000 08/11/2022
Follow on investment in The Loans for Enlightened Agriculture Fund
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Real Farming Trust
£199,978 07/07/2020
24
Towards core revenue funding to enable RFT to expand its reach and influence across the UK, promoting and supporting agroecological, nature friendly farming.
National Lottery Community Fund - Ready Heathy Eat - Covid 19
£68,852 02/06/2020
5
The Ready Healthy Eat project is coordinated by Real Farming Trust and delivered by four community food partners in England Northern Ireland and Scotland. The funding will be used to increase the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Real Farming Trust
£12,500 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Real Farming Trust
£10,000 23/09/2019
12
towards continued support for the Oxford Real Farming Conference in 2020.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Real Farming Trust
£20,000 09/04/2019
24
towards investment readiness mentoring and support for community food and farming businesses outside England which allows them to unlock social investment from the Loans for Enlightened Agriculture ....more
Power to Change - The Real Farming Trust
£19,875 12/12/2018
13
Grant to The Real Farming Trust
Power to Change - The Real Farming Trust
£53,286 04/12/2018
36
Grant to The Real Farming Trust
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Real Farming Trust
£50,000 26/04/2018
24
Towards a blended finance programme supporting community-based enterprises to grow and achieve longer-term sustainability in line with the principles of enlightened agriculture
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment The Real Farming Trust
£450,000 26/04/2018
96
An investment towards loan finance supporting community-based enterprises to grow and achieve longer-term sustainability in line with the principles of enlightened agriculture.
Environmental Finance - Multiple outcome areas
£450,000 18/04/2018
All Groups
National Lottery Community Fund - Grow Share Prepare
£28,672 08/08/2017
11
This funding will support the group to build on their Grow Share Cook project to explore how they can use the development of this work to create a model/toolkit for other communities. Grow, Share, ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Real Farming Trust
£20,000 21/06/2017
24
Towards the cost of running the Oxford Real Farming Conference during 2018 and 2019.
Power to Change - The Real Farming Trust
£88,400 02/01/2016
36
Grant to The Real Farming Trust
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Real Farming Trust
£281,083 06/11/2014
Towards the costs of the Just Growth programme, which will provide a combination of technical support, grant and loan funding to new community-owned, food-growing and value-adding enterprises.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-65
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/03/1997, number: 1061607
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/03/1997, number: 03336839
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR10: 12 days late, AR08: 12 days late, AR07: 22 days late,
Main office

20 DOVE HOUSE CLOSE
OXFORD
OX2 8BG

Objectives

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR OBJECTS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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