Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

THE AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION UK 

Akshaya Patra UK's vision is a world where no child is deprived of education because of poverty and hunger. The charity supports the provision of nutritious daily meals to more than 2 million children in schools across India, as well as directly serving meals to disadvantaged children and their communities in the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 17 years

www.akshayapatra.org.uk

hello@AKSHAYAPATRA.ORG.UK

02080048745

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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£1,550£1,613£-63£136£781£7535.61915
31/03/22*£1,745£1,967£-222£0£843£8265121
31/03/21£2,285£1,370£915£14£1,066£5835.165
31/03/20£935£1,120£-184£19£151£1291.447
31/03/19£928£1,024£-97£23£335£3233.847
31/03/18*£796£615£181£67£432£4328.440
31/03/17£676£707£-31£129£250£2504.240
31/03/16£658£731£-73£2£281£2814.630
31/03/15£655£667£-12£118£354£3546.420
31/03/14£352£481£-129£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£897£750£146£426£496£4967.930
31/03/12£844£614£230£307£350£3506.840
31/03/11£227£116£110£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£11£6£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£11£10£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£6£4£3£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 25%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 5.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • India, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 19 employees
  • 15 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
GMSP Foundation£162,738
The Childhood Trust£100,000
The London Community Foundation£20,000
Co-Operative Group£2,075
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Akshaya Patra Foundation UK (TAPF UK)
£2,075 21/10/2023
Our unique model means we are able to make a hot, healthy meal at low cost. Our meals are cooked fresh with love and served hot. Funding will help us make more meals for more children.
The Childhood Trust - C-59238
£25,000 28/06/2022
To serve up to 100,000 freshly cooked hot, nutritious meals to children in London at risk of going to bed hungry during holidays & term time. With this project we hope to reduce hunger, ....more
The Childhood Trust - Beat Hunger With Nutrition This Christmas
£25,000 12/06/2022
To serve thousands of freshly cooked, nutritious meals to children and vulnerable families, refugees, and the homeless struggling with food poverty in London & its home counties. We aim to reduce ....more
The Childhood Trust - End Hunger in London children ?Nourish to Flourish
£25,000 22/06/2021
To serve thousands of freshly cooked hot, nutritious meals to children in London who are at risk of going to bed hungry. With this project we hope to reduce hunger, malnutrition, obesity and food ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The Akshaya Patra Foundation UK
£10,000 18/12/2020
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The funding is for preparing, packaging and delivering hot, healthy and freshly cooked meals every day to vulnerable families, the elderly, the homeless and rough sleepers - who are struggling with ....more
The Childhood Trust - Tackling Holiday Hunger in London Children
£25,000 03/07/2020
To serve up to 100,000 freshly cooked hot, nutritious meals to children in London who are at risk of going to bed hungry during the holidays. With this project we hope to reduce hunger, malnutrition, ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to The Akshaya Patra Foundation UK
£10,000 02/06/2020
The funding is for preparing, packaging and delivering hot, healthy and freshly cooked meals every day to vulnerable families, the homeless, the elderly and the stranded students - who have no access ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Akshaya Patra Foundation UK
£1,000 12/05/2020
A grant of £1,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
GMSP Foundation - Grant to The Akshaya Patra Foundation
£162,738 06/04/2020
Support towards Akashaya Patra UK set up costs and flagship nutrition programmes
The Childhood Trust - Big Dinner 2019
£15,000 17/04/2019
To serve nutritious hot meals to the children in London who go hungry during holidays With this project we hope to reduce hunger malnutrition obesity and food wastage in the city and help these ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 31/01/2007, number: 1117756
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR22: 10 days late, AR18: 33 days late, AR09: 24 days late, AR08: 84 days late,
Main office

Unit S
Penfold Trading Estate
Imperial Way
WATFORD
WD24 4YY

Objectives

The objects of the charity (“the objects”) are: the relief of poverty, the preservation and protection of good health and the advancing of education, especially for children in the United Kingdom, India and other countries around the world that may be selected by the Trustees and in particular, but not exclusively, by supporting the charitable work of the Akshaya Patra Foundation India (“TAPF”) and any other charity that furthers (in whole or in part) substantially the same objects.

Defined Area of Benefit:

INDIA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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