Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 11
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

FOREST FARM PEACE GARDEN 

Forest Farm Peace Garden is a therapeutic community garden which works with a broad cross-section of the community to promote health, wellbeing, inclusion, environmental sustainability, and intercultural awareness.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

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 was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 16 years

www.forestfarmpeacegarden.org

info@forestfarmpeacegarden.org

020 8477 1655

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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
30/06/22£79£88£-9n/an/an/an/an/a35
30/06/21£75£75£0n/an/an/an/an/a75
30/06/20£70£67£3n/an/an/an/an/a50
30/06/19£80£68£13n/an/an/an/an/a80
30/06/18£86£70£16£0£0£0n/a060
30/06/17£85£99£-14£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16*£91£87£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15*£51£55£-3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£80£59£21£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£38£46£-8£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£41£37£5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£22£21£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10*£30£40£-10£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£55£60£-5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Redbridge,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 35 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
Henry Smith Charity£102,300
City Bridge Trust£85,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£12,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Cheshire Community Foundation£5,000
Co-Operative Group£4,107
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Forest Farm Peace Garden
£85,000 25/08/2021
36
£85,000 over three years (£17,500; £33,500; £34,000) towards the salaries of the Project Manager and Ecotherapy Worker, and a contribution to overheads, in support of the organisation’s ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Forest Farm Peace Garden
£10,000 08/06/2021
refurbishment of outdoor space for a charity that supports people with disabilties in Essex
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£12,000 01/04/2021
Ecotherapy
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellbeing in Nature
£10,000 11/02/2021
11
The funding will be used to deliver a range of nature-based activities in the organisations therapy garden. The project aims to improve mental health wellbeing and build peer relationships during the ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Ecotherapy
£5,000 04/11/2020
FFPG provides therapeutic nature-based activities, workshops and events at our large garden for vulnerable people with defined needs and the local community. This project will deliver twice-weekly ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Forest Farm Peace Garden
£4,107 24/10/2020
Run monthly community activity days, two large annual events and monthly education workshops for the local community and volunteers.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Forest Farm Peace Garden
£102,300 10/12/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to people with mental health support needs through Ecotherapy in the London Borough of Redbridge
National Lottery Community Fund - Ecotherapy Project
£158,192 23/08/2017
36
This group will develop their project and support people with mild to moderate mental health needs through a range of nature based therapeutic interventions that focus on improving mental wellbeing, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Forest Farm Peace Garden
£15,000 16/12/2015
12
providing a therapeutic garden for local people to access education opportunities. The grant will fund a new programme for NEET young people to give them opportunities to gain new skills and access ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Forest Farm Peace Garden
£12,600 26/05/2015
£12,600 over 12 months towards the development of business plans and fundraising for the East London Growers initiative run by Forest Farm Peace Garden.
National Lottery Community Fund - Forest Farm Peace Garden
£86,452 17/06/2013
38
The aim of this existing project is to improve the health and wellbeing of Londoners, especially families and individuals from vulnerable and marginalised communities, through gardening, social and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Forest Farm Peace Garden
£9,920 28/11/2012
24
towards two years' running costs of a therapeutic gardening project in the London Borough of Redbridge for people with mental health issues
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-61
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/02/2008, number: 1123031
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/06/2006, number: 05846731
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR16: 26 days late, AR15: 3 days late, AR10: 95 days late,
Main office

Forest Farm Peace Garden
2nd Floor
Ilford Chambers, 11 Chapel Road
Ilford
Essex
IG1 2DR

Objectives

1)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THE WIDER COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ORGANIC GARDENING OPPORTUNITIES, CONSERVATION BASED ACTIVITIES, EDUCATION AND ONE TO ONE SUPPORT.2)TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND IMPROVE THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT; IN PARTICULAR THROUGH ORGANIC GARDENING, PERMACULTURE, CONSERVATION, AND OTHER ECOLOGICALLY SOUND PRACTICES.3) TO FOSTER A GENUINELY DIVERSE AND INTEGRATED COMMUNITY THROUGH:A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, ETHNIC ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION;B) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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