Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 9

Strong growth: +2

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

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 20

BRISTOL NORTH WEST FOODBANK

Working in Bristol NW we help to alleviate poverty through the provision of food parcels to those in crisis, in partnership with local care agencies who refer clients in crisis to us. As part of our service we signpost to other care agencies, advice services and support agencies to try and help alleviate the clients immediate crisis that is causing their need to use the Foodbank.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Established: 12 years

https://www.bristolnorthwestfoodbank.org.uk/

office@bristolnwfoodbank.org.uk

01179235343

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
31/03/23	£604	£604	£0	£0	£553	£496	9.9	11	113
31/03/22	£684	£518	£166	£0	£545	£373	8.6	8	100
31/03/21	£711	£417	£294	£0	£369	£369	10.6	6	100
31/03/20	£271	£268	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	90
31/03/19	£184	£148	£36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/18	£132	£136	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£109	£101	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£86	£93	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£92	£86	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£66	£51	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£57	£38	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 90%
Reserves/Spending: 9.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 3

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Listed activities

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Bristol City,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

11 employees
113 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

Quartet Community Foundation	£234,478
The Trussell Trust	£163,616
Co-Operative Group	£10,659

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£3,404	21/10/2023	We want to buy boxes for our home delivery service and also supplement the purchase of fresh fruit and veg for our home deliveries.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£1,500	02/06/2023	As directed by the donor towards debt advice.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£10,000	10/01/2023	As directed by the donor towards debt advice.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£3,203	22/10/2022	Our Homebank helps those in the community being moved into new accommodation due to domestic abuse and homelessness, who may have nothing to start a home.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Bristol NW Foodbank
£5,000	11/10/2022	Emergency grant
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£1,950	07/06/2022	As directed by the donor towards debt advice.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Bristol NW Foodbank
£155,250	31/03/2022	Specialist debt casework service through North Bristol Advice (2dpw); Generalist Adviser (4dpw)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£4,053	23/10/2021	We are setting up a Space4Makers woodworking workshop to tackle social isolation.
Quartet Community Foundation - Space4Makers
£214,403	16/08/2021	Towards the Space4Makers community woodworking workshop in Avonmouth, providing training opportunities to young people. In memory of Luke Wheaton.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£1,625	18/06/2021	As directed by the donor towards debt advice.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£5,000	22/04/2020	Towards delivery of food, prioritising those waiting for universal credit
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£3,366	14/04/2020	CV emergency costs: salary costs
Quartet Community Foundation - Installation of a new kitchen to roll out our cookery and budgeting courses and for our volunteers to use
£3,900	24/12/2018 11	Towards the Foodbank kitchen refurbishment to enable community cookery and budget courses to run in North West Bristol.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£28,213	17/12/2018 36	Specialist advice worker for food bank
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Bristol NW Foodbank
£28,213	12/12/2018	Specialist advice worker
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£3,612	31/10/2018 12	New food bank warehouse
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Bristol NW Foodbank
£3,612	31/10/2018	Warehouse equipment
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Bristol North West Foodbank
£6,170	29/11/2017	We are trying to raise £4365 to repair one of our food stores and replace shelving damaged by water.
Quartet Community Foundation - Food store rennovation
£5,000	25/01/2017 2	Toward the repair of water damage at the group's Avonmouth location.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-71

EMMA JAYNE MURRAY Appointed: 2012, Occupation: None

GRAHAM JOHN BURLEY Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Head Of Commercial Planning

JAMES ROBERT LOVELL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Bioresources

KEREN LOUISE RICE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Administrator

ROSALINE ANN ROBERTS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: SEVERNSIDE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES TRUST,

REV DR ANDREW JAMES MURRAY (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: None

SELINA SALISBURY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired

VIRGINIA O'CONOR Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Therapist

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/06/2012, number: 1147727
Registered at Companies House on 30/05/2012, number: 08089474

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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

11 returns made; all on time

Main office

Bristol North West Foodbank
St. Andrews Church
Avonmouth Road
BRISTOL
BS11 9EN

Objectives

THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE NORTH WEST BRISTOL AREA, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING FOOD AND SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES FACING SHORT TERM TIMES OF CRISIS

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