Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Only 3 Trustees: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 2

BUCKINGHAM EMERGENCY FOOD APPEAL

Provision of food and other help to the homeless and needy, particularly at Christmas time.

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently

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	*	£177	£176	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	55
31/03/22		£188	£176	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	42
31/03/21		£233	£197	£36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	65
31/03/20		£193	£196	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/19		£229	£225	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/18		£212	£206	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£203	£216	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£196	£201	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£223	£206	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£202	£205	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£197	£199	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£188	£180	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£141	£139	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£136	£141	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£118	£190	£-72	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£242	£132	£110	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£105	£89	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£93	£72	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£49	£56	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£74	£76	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 26 years

www.befafoodappeal.co.uk

befa@btconnect.com

01692407262

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Community food services

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
55 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

DCMS	£8,400
CAF	£4,000
Co-Operative Group	£2,783
The Grocers' Charity	£1,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to BEFA (Fresh Friends South Cambs Project)
£1,023	21/10/2023	We aim to provide community groups in South Cambridgeshire with free, fresh and nutritious food to help them build their teams, create friendships and achieve their common goals.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Cambridge Emergency Meals Project
£1,759	23/10/2021	BEFA has been supporting community groups who are providing free meals to people in need, and we would like to continue providing ingredients for the meals throughout the next eighteen months.
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal
£1,000	30/09/2020	Towards core costs to create 90,000 meals to be distributed to those in need over December (with Christmas ingredients) and January.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,400	31/07/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
CAF - Grant to The Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal
£4,000	27/04/2020 3	Grant to The Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal to support the organisation through COVID19

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Gender Split

ANNABEL LAWRENCE

POLLY BOWLES

PETER BOWLES, Other trusteeship: AQUARIUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/12/1997, number: 1066578

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR23: 19 days late,

Main office

87 Narrow Lane
Histon
CAMBRIDGE
CB24 9YP

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS OR THOSE OTHERWISE IN NEED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

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