Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 2
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2

THE TROY TRUST 

Supporting bees and beekeepers in the developing world: to alleviate poverty, develop sustainable livelihoods, and maintain biodiversity.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
Established: 24 years

www.beesfordevelopment.org

info@beesfordevelopment.org

+44 (0)1600 714848

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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
30/04/23£794£495£298£0£561£48211.7052
30/04/22£704£669£34£0£263£2023.6085
30/04/21£793£827£-34£0£228£2283.30130
30/04/20£726£671£55£30£262£1562.80107
30/04/19£388£335£53n/an/an/an/an/a14
30/04/18£302£294£8£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/17£363£296£67£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/16£294£275£19£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/15£152£154£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/14£245£228£17£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/13£242£244£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/12£180£184£-4£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/11£114£219£-105£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/10£235£197£38£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/09£175£114£60£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/08£113£158£-45£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/07*£181£99£83£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/06?*£39£33£6£0£0£0n/a00
30/05/05?*£31£54£-23£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£40£38£2£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: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 11.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 20
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 52 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Monmouthshire, Trinidad And Tobago, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

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 - Beekeeping to empower people with disabilities in Uganda
£168,799 10/01/2019
23
Beekeeping to empower people with disabilities in Uganda
National Lottery Community Fund - Study on beekeeping and disability in Uganda
£13,015 30/04/2018
2
Study on beekeeping and disability in Uganda
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bees for Development Trust
£60,000 04/10/2017
24
over two years towards creating a new structure and strategy for this organisation working worldwide to alleviate poverty and maintain biodiversity by resourcing local beekeeping

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/01/2000, number: 1078803
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 95 days late, AR06: 82 days late, AR05: 66 days late,
Main office

Bees for Development
1 Agincourt Street
Monmouth
NP25 3DZ

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ANY PART OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CRAFT OF BEEKEEPING

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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