Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 9

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 13

TRANSITION TOWN TOTNES LTD

We engage our community in participatory events, educational projects and services to create a more resilient town, to promote sustainable development and reduce GHG emissions. We build a local movement towards a fair and just transition. Our main themes include: cohesive and resilient community; local environment; food systems; wellbeing; local economy; energy; housing; transport; arts; waste.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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 has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 13 years
(16 years as a company)

www.transitiontowntotnes.org

info@transitiontowntotnes.org

01803867358

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£84	£106	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	47
31/08/21		£75	£52	£23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	45
31/08/20		£74	£84	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/08/19	*	£142	£124	£18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/08/18		£142	£124	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	120
31/08/17		£143	£154	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16		£65	£93	£-27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/15		£195	£125	£70	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/14		£88	£132	£-44	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/13		£151	£109	£43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/12		£147	£186	£-39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/11		£1,008	£890	£119	£2	£155	£6	0.1	2	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Other Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Devon,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
47 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£20,000
Esmee Fairbairn	£15,000
Devon Community Foundation	£12,000
Crowdfunder	£6,355

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Devon Community Foundation - A community food growing project: 'Incredible Edible Totnes'
£5,000	02/03/2023	Events and associated publicity/information material to engage people with a community food growing project.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£6,355	28/09/2022	Covid response
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Transition Town Totnes
£2,000	20/09/2022	community gardening initiative
Devon Community Foundation - Transition Streets
£5,000	07/04/2022	Bringing neighbours together to explore ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
National Lottery Community Fund - Incredible Edible
£10,000	10/09/2021	The funding will be used to expand on the organisation's 'Incredible Edible' programme offering access to food growing space gardening and outdoor activity for local residents. The project aims to ....more The funding will be used to expand on the organisation's 'Incredible Edible' programme offering access to food growing space gardening and outdoor activity for local residents. The project aims to bring people together and offer the opportunity to learn new skills and this new expansion of the project will allow them to provide activities for local people with restricted mobility.
National Lottery Community Fund - Incredible Edible
£10,000	05/09/2019 12	Incredible Edible
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£15,000	04/06/2019 12	towards the cost of production and dissemination of a resource that will document the learning from the Grown In Totnes programme, for use by other organisations seeking to improve and relocalise the ....more towards the cost of production and dissemination of a resource that will document the learning from the Grown In Totnes programme, for use by other organisations seeking to improve and relocalise the food system, as described in your proposal.
Friends Provident Foundation - Caring Town Totnes-Exploring community centred commissioning models and services
£9,500	01/12/2017	To co-design, implement and test specific commissioning pathways and procurement processes with the CGCG and possibly Devon County Council , based around delivery of our jointly designed service ....more To co-design, implement and test specific commissioning pathways and procurement processes with the CGCG and possibly Devon County Council , based around delivery of our jointly designed service proposals - Co-design, implement and test other innovative community based financing models and pathways - Capture and share the resulting financial processes, model, organisation structures etc - Capture and share the additional insight and learning around the commissioning/financing pathways and processes, and how the collaborative process works (or not) in the service delivery stage, including impacts on the commissioning bodies
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£38,230	21/08/2017 12	Towards a project that will shift the focus of local cereal and pulse production from animal consumption to humans, to make local supply chains greener and increase the nutritional quality of a diet ....more Towards a project that will shift the focus of local cereal and pulse production from animal consumption to humans, to make local supply chains greener and increase the nutritional quality of a diet sourced from locally sourced foods.
Friends Provident Foundation - Transition Town Totnes - Caring Town Totnes
£15,000	13/09/2016	Our health is at the heart of our personal resilience, on which our community's economic resilience rests. Public budget cuts and growing demand are putting unprecedented pressure on our health and ....more Our health is at the heart of our personal resilience, on which our community's economic resilience rests. Public budget cuts and growing demand are putting unprecedented pressure on our health and care systems, and people are falling through the cracks - in this we see economic opportunity and a heart-felt desire to respond. With local partners we will co-design new models of commissioning community welfare and health services which can reduce overall costs; improve on health outcomes; and stimulate a more vibrant, independent marketplace, including new procurement models that enable local enterprises to compete for public contracts. These models will underpin a business plan for a community-led enterprise that commissions local services.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£105,830	26/02/2015 36	Towards a project that will stimulate the local production and consumption of human food crops in and around Totnes.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Transition Town Totnes Ltd
£75,000	07/04/2010 36	Towards Project costs Towards training and development costs.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-73

CHARLES EDWARD HARRINGTON Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired Lawyer, Other trusteeship: BIGBURY PARISH MEMORIAL HALL,

DR HELEN STRIDE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Consultant

DR NICHOLAS ROBERTS MBA MBE Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeship: FUTURE HEALTH AFRICA,

MARY COUGHLAN-CLARKE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired

SIENNA LULA SOMERS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/11/2010, number: 1138865
Registered at Companies House on 20/06/2007, number: 06287039

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

12 returns made; AR19: 13 days late,

Main office

The Mansion
36a Fore Street
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 5RP

Objectives

1. The promotion of sustainable development for the public benefit of the citizens of Totnes and environs by(i) the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment, and the prudent use of natural resources(ii) advancing education and raising awareness of climate change, resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, sustainable development, and economic resilience(iii) the promotion of community commitment to reductions in scarce resource use, in non-renewable energy use and in greenhouse gas emissions(iv) the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic development and regeneration(v) the prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship (vi) the promotion of social inclusion and of resilient mental health(vii) the development of capacity of socially and economically disadvantaged people such that they are more resilient and able to participate more fully in societySustainable development means development that meets the needs of the present citizens without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.2. Any other charitable purpose deemed charitable by the Charity Commission of England and Wales that the trustees may see fit.

Defined Area of Benefit:

TOTNES

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