Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

SALFORD LOAVES AND FISHES LTD

A day centre for Homeless people in Salford. We provide shower and laundry facilities, advocacy, dental service, doctor's surgery and tv lounge. Clients can enjoy a hot meal from our cafe area and can relax or play pool in the TV lounge area. We also engage clients in activities e.g. arts and crafts, bingo, reading, street soccer and put on training courses for clients from time to time.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/11/23£502£435£67£0£379£1965.41415
30/11/22£473£367£106n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/21£287£315£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/20£288£245£43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/19*£207£235£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/18£143£177£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/17£181£174£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/16£152£141£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/15*£147£145£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/14£146£114£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/13£142£88£55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/12*£103£55£48n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/11*£100£103£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/10£100£102£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/11/09*£75£101£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 52%
Reserves/Spending: 5.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 13.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 16 years

www.salfordloavesandfishes.org.uk

info@salfordloavesandfishes.org.uk

01617378775

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Salford City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,000
Forever Manchester£8,500
Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity£6,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 04/04/2022
Salford Loaves and Fishes 'Drop-In' and 'Skills for Life' Centre
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Salford Loaves and Fishes
£3,301 23/10/2021
We would like to purchase a vehicle so that we can increase the collection and distribution of donations, and take our service users to appointments and social outings.
National Lottery Community Fund - Skills for Life
£9,000 27/08/2021
The funding will be used to enable the delivery of life skills workshops to include English as a second language cookery demonstrations budgeting and computer with the aim of raising aspirations and promoting wellbeing.
Forever Manchester - The Home Cooking Club
£3,500 18/03/2021
Improving facilities to give safe access to hygiene areas
Forever Manchester - Turning Inside Out
£5,000 15/05/2020
Build of outdoor laundry facilities and showers
Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity - Grant to Salford Loaves and Fishes
£6,500 15/04/2020
Supporting initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Salford loaves and fishes
£227,405 29/08/2019
36
Funding for the organisation will enable them to expand their services. The organisation aims to provide services to the homeless community in Salford.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Salford Loaves and Fishes Ltd
£5,962 04/08/2017
Funding to support a drop in centre for the homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged people in Salford and the surrounding areas.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Salford Loaves and Fishes
£30,000 24/06/2013
24
over two years towards the core costs of a drop-in centre for homeless and vulnerable people in Salford_x000D_
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Salford Loaves and Fishes
£60,000 13/06/2012
36
towards three years' running costs of a centre for homeless people in a disadvantaged area of Manchester
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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: 62-78
  • EILEEN CURSARO Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
  • HELEN ELIZABETH MOUNTNEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Management Consultant
  • JOHN DAVID WALSH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • JOHN WARMISHAM Appointed: 2016, Occupation: ?
  • PAUL ASHTON (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/06/2008, number: 1124460
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/11/2006, number: 06015231
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
15 returns made; AR19: 13 days late, AR15: 14 days late, AR12: 34 days late, AR11: 53 days late, AR09: 363 days late,
Main office

EDWARD HOLT HOUSE
1 PADDINGTON CLOSE
SALFORD
M6 5PL

Objectives

THE ORGANISATION'S OBJECTS ( THE OBJECTS ) ARE;TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF HOMELESS AND DIS-ADVANTAGE PEOPLE IN SALFORD IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF A DROP-IN CENTRE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SALFORD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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