Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 10

Liabilities <10%: +3
Excess liquidity: -1
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 24

CITY GATE COMMUNITY PROJECTS

THE CHARITY'S PURPOSES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE:1. THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN NEED THROUGH FIGHTING HUNGER 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION THOUGH TACKLING FOOD WASTE3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF VOLUNTEERINGTHESE ARE OUTWORKED THROUGH THE WORK OF FARESHARE SUSSEX & SURREY WHICH FIGHTS HUNGER AND TACKLES FOOD WASTE.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
This charity has a robust balance sheet
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
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 age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

Established: 22 years

https://faresharesussexandsurrey.org.uk/

cgcp-board@faresharesussexandsurrey.org.uk

01273671111

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£798	£606	£192	£67	£939	£905	17.9	16	150
31/03/22		£728	£619	£109	£33	£747	£704	13.6	14	148
31/03/21		£887	£615	£272	£14	£639	£599	11.7	11	150
31/03/20		£538	£432	£106	£17	£367	£296	8.2	9	150
31/03/19		£433	£346	£88	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	140
31/03/18		£316	£260	£57	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£300	£244	£56	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£227	£234	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£168	£180	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£178	£144	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£133	£145	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£203	£185	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£193	£186	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£193	£174	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£171	£165	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£158	£172	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£145	£152	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£142	£140	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£145	£166	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£141	£155	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 17.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 13 months
Quick Ratio: 23.1

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, Surrey, West Sussex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

16 employees
150 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

Sussex Community Foundation	£70,250
Garfield Weston Foundation	£40,000
Henry Smith Charity	£13,000
DCMS	£11,976
National Lottery Community Fund	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - City Gate Community Projects
£5,000	08/02/2024 11.741935483871	Funding to support an organisation providing food to groups supporting people in food poverty.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to FareShare Sussex and Surrey
£750	10/11/2023	Funding was provided towards the cost of providing their food service to residents across East Brighton.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Fareshare Sussex & Surrey
£10,000	26/07/2023	Funding was provided towards their Electric Bike Research Project.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to FareShare Sussex and Surrey
£7,000	14/07/2023	Funding was provided towards increasing energy costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to FareShare Sussex
£4,000	19/05/2023	Funding was provided towards core operational costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to FareShare Sussex
£500	01/07/2022	Funding was provided to enable them to offer 2632 meals for vulnerable people in food poverty during this post pandemic cost of living crisis.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£10,000	17/05/2022	Funding was provided towards a new electric van.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000	11/03/2022	FareShare Sussex
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£7,500	17/11/2021 12	Funding was provided towards core costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to City Gate Community Projects
£3,000	23/09/2021 12	towards one year’s salary of the CEO for an organisation providing a food bank for people from disadvantaged communities in East Sussex.
Sussex Community Foundation - FareShare Sussex
£500	21/06/2021	Funding was provided to enable FareShare Sussex to provide the resources to create 2000 meals for vulnerable people in food poverty across East Brighton.
National Lottery Community Fund - FareShare Sussex
£10,000	11/06/2021	The funding will be used to provide a food distribution service to support vulnerable people who are living in food poverty to have access to healthy food.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£5,000	24/05/2021	City Gate Community Projects Fare Share project re-distributes surplus food to vulnerable people across Sussex. They deliver this food to charity partners (food banks, shelters, hospices, etc) who ....more City Gate Community Projects Fare Share project re-distributes surplus food to vulnerable people across Sussex. They deliver this food to charity partners (food banks, shelters, hospices, etc) who use it to feed their clients. Their warehouse operation means that they can take large deliveries of food that community groups can’t, because they have the operational resources to break them down into usable packages for redistribution. Funding was provided towards operational costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£5,000	18/11/2020 12	Funding was provided towards core costs.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000	06/11/2020	FareShare Sussex
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to City Gate Community Projects
£10,000	07/08/2020 12	towards one year's salary costs of a Chief Executive Officer for a project that redistributes surplus food from the food industry to organisations working with homeless and vulnerable people in ....more towards one year's salary costs of a Chief Executive Officer for a project that redistributes surplus food from the food industry to organisations working with homeless and vulnerable people in Sussex.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£11,976	05/08/2020	"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."
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£10,000	29/06/2020	FareShare Sussex re-distributes surplus food to vulnerable people across Sussex.They do this by delivering this food to charity partners (food banks, shelters, hospices, etc) who use it to feed their ....more FareShare Sussex re-distributes surplus food to vulnerable people across Sussex.They do this by delivering this food to charity partners (food banks, shelters, hospices, etc) who use it to feed their clients. They have 150 volunteers to sort, store and deliver the food using refrigerated van to 140 charities. Funding will support the core costs of the charity as they respond to the increase in demand for their service from Covid 19.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£5,000	21/04/2020	FareShare Sussex re-distributes surplus food to vulnerable people across Sussex. They have 150 volunteers to sort, store and deliver the food using refrigerated van to 140 charities. As a result of ....more FareShare Sussex re-distributes surplus food to vulnerable people across Sussex. They have 150 volunteers to sort, store and deliver the food using refrigerated van to 140 charities. As a result of the COVID19 crisis they know that the charities they provide food for are struggling to find the cost of their FareShare fees. Funding will susbsidise the usual fees paid by charities to access their food across Sussex for the next three months.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£5,000	18/11/2019 12	Funding was provided towards core costs.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£5,000	16/11/2018 12	Funning was provided towards core costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to City Gate Community Projects
£5,000	07/12/2017 12	towards one year's salary of a Development Manager at a project that redistributes surplus food to organisations working with homeless and vulnerable people in Sussex
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to City Gate Community Projects (Fareshare Project)
£8,259	20/11/2017 11	City Gate Community Projects runs FareShare Sussex which redistributes surplus food from the food industry to local charities and community groups that support vulnerable people. Funding was provided ....more City Gate Community Projects runs FareShare Sussex which redistributes surplus food from the food industry to local charities and community groups that support vulnerable people. Funding was provided towards their annual operating costs which include the leasing of our warehouse units, leasing of their 3 delivery vans, staff salaries and volunteer expenses.
National Lottery Community Fund - FareShare Sussex development project
£9,951	06/09/2017 12	This project will give more people, including those who are homeless, access to surplus food services by providing a new delivery route in East Sussex, and training for new volunteers.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to City Gate Community Projects
£10,000	08/09/2016 12	towards one year's salary of a Project Manager at a project in Sussex that redistributes surplus food to organisations working with homeless and vulnerable people
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to City Gate Community Projects
£5,000	11/06/2015	towards one year's running costs of a project that redistributes surplus food from the food industry to organisations working with homeless and vulnerable people in Sussex
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to City Gate Community Projects
£5,000	12/06/2014	City Gate Community Projects
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to City Gate Community Projects
£9,000	14/03/2013	towards one year's salary of the Project Manager at a surplus food distribution centre in Brighton

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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 39-72

BROOKE COURTNEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Communications

CAROLINE WARD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant

ELIZABETH JANE BREWER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

GWYN DAVIES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Foster Carer / Church Leader, Other trusteeship: CITY GATE CHURCH, UK,

JONATHAN WILKINS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Senior Developer, Other trusteeship: CITY GATE CHURCH, UK,

JAMES PETER MARCHANT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired

KEITH HARRISON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant

NIGEL JOHN WRIGHT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer

PAMELA MITCHELL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Charity Manager

SUZANNE ELIZABETH MAINE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Copyeditor

YVONNE AU Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Education Consultant, Other trusteeship: CITY GATE CHURCH, UK,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/07/2002, number: 1093245
Registered at Companies House on 03/10/2001, number: 04298200

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR08: 4 days late, AR06: 107 days late, AR04: 194 days late,

Main office

FareShare Sussex & Surrey
Unit 3-4 Fairway Business Centre
Westergate Road
BRIGHTON
BN2 4JZ

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:- (A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND SUSSEX AND SURREY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT INCLUDING (THOUGH NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) THE PROVISION OF PRE-SCHOOL, AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS, HOMEWORK CLUBS, WRAP AROUND CARE FOR CHILDREN OF VARIOUS AGES, NVQ'S AND OTHER VOCATIONAL COURSE AND TRAINING AND REMEDIAL ADULT EDUCATION. (B) TO RELIEVE PERSON IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT INCLUDING (THOUGH NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) HOMELESS PERSONS, ASYLUM SEEKERS, DISABLED PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD, TRAINING, PREGNANCY ADVICE, NEIGHBOURHOOD CARE SERVICES, LUNCH CLUBS AND OTHER SERVICES FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE AND HEALTH BASED SERVICES. (C) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE. (D) THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF LOW COST NUTRITIONAL FOOD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SESSEX - BRIGHTON

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