Overall GiG Score: 25 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

THE TRUSSELL TRUST 

The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks and together we provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK. www.trusselltrust.org
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity is endorsed by a respected charity impact evaluator
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 19 years

www.trusselltrust.org

enquiries@trusselltrust.org

01722580180

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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£58,038£55,225£2,813£8,219£35,518£30,0836.52855,000
31/03/22£34,189£50,567£-16,378£5,430£32,705£27,1906.52385,000
31/03/21£57,782£18,723£39,059£3,147£49,083£44,80628.71705,000
31/03/20£21,330£13,985£7,345£1,622£10,009£9,7368.41215,845
31/03/19£11,654£10,680£974£1,025£2,663£2,4192.710528,000
31/03/18£7,270£6,640£630£1,593£1,686£1,0011.8870
31/03/17£6,625£7,113£-488£1,519£1,056£7221.21040
31/03/16£6,779£6,749£29£1,518£1,536£1,0471.91050
31/03/15£6,801£6,284£517£1,070£1,442£9401.8790
31/03/14£3,397£2,965£432£661£922£6002.4540
31/03/13£1,884£1,578£306£568£485£3492.7410
31/03/12*£1,249£1,188£62£455£171£880.9280
31/03/11£852£851£1£263£109£430.6230
31/03/10£512£505£7£103£108£761.8150
31/03/09£419£419£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£402£368£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£309£286£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£231£269£-38£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 14.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 14.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 45%
Liabilities/Income: 49%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 6.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 285 employees
  • 5,000 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Endorsed by:
  • SoGive
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
Indigo Trust£2,000,000
Gatsby Charitable Trust£2,000,000
Three Guineas Trust£1,000,000
Pears Foundation£1,000,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£15,170 06/10/2023
Emergency Support Grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£97,741 14/09/2023
4 dpw CA advisor
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£7,604 15/02/2023
Ceiling repair, 3 months external storage, plastic boxes, asbestos survey
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£3,333 13/02/2023
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£3,333 13/02/2023
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£5,000 14/11/2022
Emergency grant
CHK Foundation - CHK Emergency /Disaster Grant
£10,000 09/11/2022
to support specified work
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Vale of Neath Foodbank
£1,162 22/10/2022
We would like to provide food for those in crisis and a safe place for people to get connected, by helping them join up with other support groups.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£34,098 06/10/2022
FI extension funding 1 yr (CA Advisor 4dpw)
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£70,840 11/08/2022
Development Lead role FT
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£5,748 09/06/2022
FI extension funding Jul-Sep 2022
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£5,478 15/03/2022
Extension of CA advice service for 3 months
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£29,696 06/12/2021
backfill for strategic lead
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£2,000 30/11/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£2,000 10/11/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Vale of Neath
£1,683 23/10/2021
We want to provide support for our housebound older generation by delivering food parcels.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£49,562 05/10/2021
Project manager and researcher (6 months)
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£2,979 24/09/2021
Van hire, stock replacement
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£37,640 20/09/2021
Rent & relocation of food bank warehouse & offices
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£20,407 26/03/2021
24
New post - Community Liaison Officer, 15 hpw for 2 years
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£4,250 03/03/2021
Part time Driver
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£3,879 17/02/2021
Employment of a member of staff to oversee volunteering sessions
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£4,725 10/02/2021
Staffing costs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£36,000 08/12/2020
New FT Development Lead (37.5 hpw)
Joseph Rank Trust - The Trussell Trust
£100,000 20/10/2020
To fund the Trust's Coronavirus Emergency Grant Fund
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£23,111 25/09/2020
CA advisor
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Trussell Trust
£2,500 12/06/2020
As requested by the donor towards food bank provision in response to InfraRed's London to Sydney race
Dulverton Trust - Emergency fund for Network Foodbanks
£50,000 10/06/2020
Emergency fund for Network Foodbanks
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Brent Foodbank
£5,000 03/06/2020
CV emergency costs: salary costs
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Trussell Trust
£5,000 07/05/2020
Food Bank Grant Fund
Joseph Rank Trust - The Trussell Trust
£100,000 29/04/2020
To fund the Trust's Coronavirus Emergency Grant Fund
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to The Trussell Trust
£20,000 03/04/2020
12
Towards a roll out of a national helpline to enable better access to foodbanks and advice.
CHK Foundation - CHK Emergency /Disaster Grant
£40,000 23/03/2020
unrestricted (response to COVID)
Indigo Trust - Emergency funding to help most vulnerable during Covid-19 crisis
£1,000,000 20/03/2020
Emergency funding to help most vulnerable during Covid-19 crisis
Three Guineas Trust - Towards support running foodbanks nationwide.
£1,000,000 20/03/2020
Towards support running foodbanks during the Covid-19 emergency.
Gatsby Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000,000 19/03/2020
Towards unrestricted core funding, with the expectation, but not the requirement, that these monies be spent in an expedient manner specifically in order to meet needs created by the Covid-19 crisis.
Indigo Trust - Emergency funding to help most vulnerable during Covid-19 crisis
£1,000,000 19/03/2020
Core unrestricted funding.
Gatsby Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000,000 19/03/2020
Towards unrestricted core funding, with the expectation, but not the requirement, that these monies be spent in an expedient manner specifically in order to meet needs created by the Covid-19 crisis.
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Trussell Trust
£1,000,000 03/02/2020
60
Income Maximisation Programme
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Trussell Trust
£317,700 26/09/2019
60
£317,700 over five years for a full-time London Area Manager with associated on-costs and expenses to support the capital’s foodbanks meet emergency food demands and provide clients with access to ....more
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£60,000 25/06/2019
24
2 Citizens Advice positions for project
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£30,000 25/06/2019
2 Citizens Advice positions for project
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£4,440 15/05/2019
12
Laptops, printers, dongles
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Salisbury Foodbank
£4,225 15/05/2019
12
Cooker for foodbank centre
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Coventry Foodbank
£4,143 15/05/2019
Laptops, printers, dongles
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Trussell Trust
£35,000 29/03/2019
12
Core funding
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Swanley and District Foodbank
£2,631 29/11/2017
We need a well resourced Food Bank because vulnerable adults and children are going hungry in Swanley.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brent Foodbank (The Trussell Trust)
£7,258 04/08/2017
We're quickly out-growing our base - help us expand to support more families to get out of poverty and regain their independence.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Trussell Trust
£4,829 04/08/2017
Funding will help even more families in crisis with emergency food parcels so they regain their independence and become self sufficient.
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Trussell Trust
£100,000 07/03/2017
24
Core funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Foodbank Network, including More Than Food
£748,423 03/12/2015
24
The funding will enable the charity to increase support to their network of foodbanks across England which provide emergency food and support to people in crisis who have been referred by ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Trussell Trust
£100,000 21/04/2015
24
Food banks
London Catalyst - The Trussell Trust - 1
£15,000 20/08/2014
London Development Worker - to grow/support at least one foodbank in each London borough
National Lottery Community Fund - Scotland Foodbank Network Expansion Project
£944,708 11/03/2014
60
The Trussell Trust aim to support people who cannot afford to feed themselves throughout Scotland over five years. It will develop a 'Scotland Foodbank Network Development Team' that will offer ....more
Indigo Trust - Unrestricted funding related to UK food banks
£3,000 10/03/2014
Unrestricted core costs.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Trussell Trust
£34,300 20/10/2011
the salary and on costs of the Volunteer Co-ordinator Assistant
National Lottery Community Fund - Foodbank Network Wales
£169,019 23/03/2011
48
The project will allow the organisation to set up a network of foodbanks across Mid and North Wales to provide emergency food to those who are in short term crisis and find themselves with no money ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Trussell Trust
£20,000 08/03/2011
Towards the salary of the regional development officer for London, to expand the Food Bank Project.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-70
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/07/2005, number: 1110522
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/04/2005, number: 05434524
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
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
  • 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
18 returns made; AR12: 1 days late, AR07: 57 days late, AR06: 29 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from JR AND SA BROOKS CHARITABLE TRUST on 14/09/2020
  • Asset transfer in from WOODVILLE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL on 13/02/2023
  • Asset transfer in from ROTARY CLUB OF SALFORD WITH SWINTON CHARITABLE TRUST on 13/02/2023
  • Asset transfer in from CHARITY OF ANN DAVIS on 04/04/2023
Main office

THE TRUSSELL TRUST
UNIT 9
ASHFIELD TRADING ESTATE
ASHFIELD ROAD
SALISBURY

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (BENEFICIARIES) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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