Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

LUNCH POSITIVE

Lunch Positive runs a weekly lunch club & community space for all adults with HIV.The service is delivered by volunteers, provides increased access to good nutrition, a safe and supportive space for people to meet; to find peer support, build supportive networks and reduce social isolation. We signpost & offer advice. The service actively involves members in volunteering and helping activities.
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/05/23£112£132£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/22£117£108£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/21£104£88£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/20£83£72£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/19£75£66£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/18£88£58£29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/17£52£56£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/16£79£44£35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/15*£39£32£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/14£46£31£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/13£30£28£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/12£34£26£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/11£19£22£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

www.lunchpositive.org

info@lunchpositive.org

01273516781

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

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
Sussex Community Foundation£56,131
DCMS£19,800
National Lottery Community Fund£9,868
Crowdfunder£5,245
Co-Operative Group£1,919
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Lunch Positive
£1,919 21/10/2023
With our amazing volunteers, we'll run an HIV lunch club every week, bringing more than 60 people together to share a healthy meal, find friendship, share peer-support, and build community.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£5,000 14/07/2023
Funding was provided towards the delivery costs of 76 HIV shared meal support sessions, consisting of the weekly HIV lunch club, monthly older person’s supper group, and women’s lunch peer-support group.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£7,849 09/01/2023
11
Funding was provided towards the running costs for their HIV safe space 'warm hub' and community support groups across Lewes, Eastbourne, and Hastings.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£5,245 12/09/2022
Covid response
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£5,000 11/03/2022
Funding was provided towards staff costs and a lunch club.
Sussex Community Foundation - East Sussex HIV befriending and outreach
£8,354 26/01/2022
Funding was provided to expand and develop HIV well-being support , befriending groups, and outreach activities in East Sussex.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£9,928 24/05/2021
Lunch Positive provide community based HIV support services incorporating a wide range of support activities for residents of Brighton & Hove and the wider areas of Sussex. They address and combat diverse and multiple disadvantages for many of ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£5,000 12/03/2021
12
Funding was provided towards project delivery costs of the HIV lunch club and the HIV older persons’ monthly supper group.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£5,000 09/12/2020
Lunch Positive provides community based support for people with HIV who have complex needs, diminished physical health, often multi-morbidities, symptomatic HIV (AIDS), HIV and age related frailty, diminished mental health affecting self-care. ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£5,000 11/08/2020
Funding will support the project for six months, for the employment of two sessional workers to support the combined increased demand on all services and transitional period of re-starting and re-modelling their HIV lunch club, social support ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 10/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£14,800 08/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£5,000 14/04/2020
Lunch Positive provide a weekly HIV lunch club incorporating a wide range of support activities for residents of Brighton & Hove and the wider areas of Sussex. Funding is to reach & support those experiencing food poverty, social and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Times
£9,868 23/01/2020
11
The project will use funding to deliver social support activities for people living with the effects of HIV. The project aims to improve mental health, reduce social isolation and help establish new and supportive friendships across diverse ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£4,920 18/11/2019
12
Funding was provided towards project delivery costs of the a weekly HIV lunch club.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Lunch Positive
£4,045 16/03/2018
11
Lunch Positive provides a locally unique service. This is a weekly HIV lunch club in Brighton for residents of Brighton & Hove and the wider areas of Sussex. Funding was provided to contribute towards project delivery costs of the HIV lunch ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CHRISTOPHER SARSON Appointed: 2018
  • HEATHER LEAKE DATE (Chair) Appointed: 2015
  • MARGOT UDEN Appointed: 2018
  • RICHARD JENEWAY Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/07/2010, number: 1137186
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
13 returns made; AR15: 1 days late,
Main office

LUNCH POSITIVE
COMMUNITY BASE
113 QUEENS ROAD
BRIGHTON

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS AFFECTED BY HIV BY THE PROVISION OF A LUNCH SERVICE, INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON HEALTHY EATING AND LIFESTYLES AND A SIGNPOSTING SERVICE TO OTHER HIV NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE BRIGHTON AND HOVE, EAST SUSSEX AND WEST SUSSEX

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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