Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -7

Support Score: 10

Reasonable growth: +1
Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Only 4 Trustees: -1
All male board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 2

LIGHT AND LIFE FREE METHODIST CHURCH EAST CORNWALL

Promoting and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and enabling ordinary people to live out their faith. To relieve sickness and financial hardship and to promote and preserve good health through funds, goods or services of any kind including through the provision of pastoral advice and support and the advancement of education. To run St Austell Foodbank seeded by the Trussel Trust.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

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
There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely male

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

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
31/12/22	£325	£392	£-68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	150
31/12/21	£364	£351	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	150
31/12/20	£383	£372	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	150
31/12/19	£288	£292	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	150
31/12/18	£311	£262	£49	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	150
31/12/17	£489	£243	£246	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16	£222	£187	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15	£194	£174	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14	£222	£148	£74	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	£128	£132	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	£122	£114	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	£122	£86	£36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10	£91	£76	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09	£55	£33	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 15 years

www.lightandlife.co.uk/staustell

staustell@lightandlife.co.uk

0172665313

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Christian congregations

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Cornwall,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of 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

The Trussell Trust	£171,827
Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000
Cornwall Community Foundation	£6,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to St Austell Foodbank
£5,000	03/11/2022	Emergency grant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	02/09/2022	SkillSHARE
The Trussell Trust - Grant to St Austell Foodbank
£141,687	31/03/2022	0.4 FI Co-ordinator from CA Cornwall, 0.6 FTE Generalist Adviser
The Trussell Trust - Grant to St Austell Foodbank
£2,600	21/08/2020	Volunteer training
Cornwall Community Foundation - In response to Covid -19
£3,000	21/05/2020 12	To alleviate foodbank clients in crisis and support core running.
Cornwall Community Foundation - In response to Covid -19
£3,000	06/04/2020 1	To alleviate foodbank clients in crisis and support core running.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to St Austell Foodbank
£3,404	27/03/2020	CV emergency costs: salary costs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to St Austell Foodbank
£9,568	25/06/2019 36	New foodbank manager
The Trussell Trust - Grant to St Austell Foodbank
£9,568	25/06/2019	New foodbank manager

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

DAVID HORWELL Appointed: 2021

MICHAEL WISHEART Appointed: 2021

PETER GODFREY Appointed: 2023

TIMOTHY ROWE Appointed: 2024

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/03/2009, number: 1128866

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Paying staff
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

14 returns made; all on time

Main office

Light & Life Centre
Unit 4-5
Brunel Business Park
The Sidings
St. Austell
PL25 4TJ

Objectives

3.2.1 THE FURTHERANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE FREE METHODISTCHURCH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES, DISCIPLINES AND USAGE'S OF THAT CHURCH,AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE FREEMETHODIST CHURCH (AS PRESENTLY SET OUT IN THE APPENDIX TO THIS DOCUMENT) IN SUCHWAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROMTIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;3.2.2 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOODHEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THROUGHTHE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ORTHE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT; AND3.2.3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ORTHE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.3.3 THE TRUSTEES MUST USE THE INCOME AND MAY USE THE CAPITAL OF THE CHURCH IN PROMOTINGTHE OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

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