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Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 5
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +0
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

SOUTHPORT SOUP KITCHEN 

Southport soup Kitchen's goal is to offer help and support to any one in need in the local community. Our mission is to feed and support those in need by providing hot meals and drinks as well as food parcels and resources such as toiletries and other daily essentials.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently
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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
31/08/22£23£18£6n/an/an/an/an/a64
31/08/21£23£18£5n/an/an/an/an/a74
31/08/20£33£24£10n/an/an/an/an/a74
31/08/19£37£23£14n/an/an/an/an/a74
31/08/18£30£27£3£0£0£0n/a035
31/08/17£28£18£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£21£18£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£14£11£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£18£14£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£11£9£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£10£7£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/11£14£9£5£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

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Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Sefton,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 64 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£350 11/01/2022
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Southport Soup Kitchen
£8,756 19/11/2018
We want to extend help to the needy, the homeless and the vulnerable.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Southport Soup Kitchen
£4,571 04/08/2017
This project will bring together the lonely and isolated in our community when all round them are celebrating Christmas with their families

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/09/2010, number: 1137947
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/03/2010, number: 07178907
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

75 LONDON STREET
SOUTHPORT
PR9 0TX

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST HOMELESS AND NEEDY PEOPLE IN SOUTHPORT BY THE OPERATION OF A SOUP KITCHEN AND BY ANY OTHER MEANS DEEMED CHARITABLE WITHIN THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTHPORT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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