Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

BIRMINGHAM CARE GROUP 

The BCG Food Pantry supports our marginalised communities who are suffering hardship and poverty. They can access a range of culturally sensitive foods to support their wellbeing.BCG further provides a day centre elderly and vulnerable adults. Here they can access activities to improve their health and well-being through workshops that promote their personal development and social interaction.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£160£158£2n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/03/22£153£111£41n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/21£193£186£6n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/20£11£10£1n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/19£9£9£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£21£20£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£15£8£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£30£28£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£63£77£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£113£103£9£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years

www.birminghamcaregroup.org

Fiona@birminghamcaregroup.org

01215239690

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other individual and family services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Sandwell, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 13 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£586,772
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£60,000
DCMS£50,000
Birmingham City Council£8,598
Heart Of England Community Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - BCG Community Hub
£9,950 07/10/2022
The funding will be used to open a community hub. The project will complement the BCG Food Pantry with the community hub providing a social space and using surplus food from the food pantry to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BCG Food Pantry
£438,382 30/09/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a food pantry with extensive wrap around support for the Black Asian and Minoritized communities of inner-city Birmingham. It will enable Birmingham Care Group ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
£9,754 11/03/2022
The funding will be used to host an evening of music and entertainment to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee with members of the Caribbean community in Birmingham. The project aims to bring the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Food and Support for Birmingham's BAME Community
£118,686 13/05/2021
The group will use its funding to continue run its ‘Covid response’ food bank which provides culturally familiar foods to BAME communities in Birmingham (Handsworth Lozells Newtown Soho and ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Care Group
£5,000 08/03/2021
The grant will pay for volunteer costs, food and storage for around 8 weeks for the food bank
Birmingham City Council - BCG Food Bank & Befriending Service
£1,000 15/01/2021
In addition to existing service additional monies to be used for voucher scheme to support families in Ladywood
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£50,000 05/08/2020
"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 ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Covid-19 Food Charity Grant Scheme
£30,000 06/07/2020
The aim of this activity is to provide immediate support for a limited period of time to keep food charities and front-line charities that provide food aid open and supporting those most vulnerable ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Covid-19 Food Charity Grant Scheme
£30,000 03/07/2020
The aim of this activity is to provide immediate support for a limited period of time to keep food charities and front-line charities that provide food aid open and supporting those most vulnerable ....more
CAF - Grant to Birmingham Care Group
£1,000 29/05/2020
Grant to Birmingham Care Group to support the organisation through COVID19
Birmingham City Council - Covid 19 Emergency Food Distribution
£4,200 19/05/2020
Food distribution to the local community working in partnership with Fareshare, Real Junk Food Project, and TAWS.
Birmingham City Council - Covid 19 Emergency Food Distribution
£3,398 23/04/2020
Food distribution to the local community working in partnership with Fareshare, Real Junk Food Project, and TAWS.
National Lottery Community Fund - BCG COVID-19 Community Support
£10,000 17/04/2020
6
The funding will be used to set up a food bank for vulnerable people during the coronavirus pandemic. The project aims to meet the needs of the community.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Birmingham Care Group
£2,500 09/04/2020
6
Due to the forced closure of the day centre we have been actively supporting our elderly and vulnerable citizens through the following: 1. Delivering food, groceries, dry good, essential sanitary and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BCG Elders Afternoon Tea & Dance
£9,949 01/03/2017
12
This charity will use the funding to run social events for elderly and vulnerable adults in the community. Participants will be able to engage in positive activities, which will help prevent ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BCG Learning & Therapy Workshops
£10,000 25/02/2015
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - BCG Daily Activities and Drop in Centre for Vulnerable Adults
£10,000 14/02/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Ladywood, Birmingham. The group will use the funding to deliver therapeutic recreational activities for people recovering from mental illness. This will improve the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/11/2012, number: 1149682
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
10 returns made; AR16: 4 days late,
Main office

Unit 6
Magreal Industrial Estate
Freeth Street
BIRMINGHAM
B16 0QZ

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE ELDERLY, INFIRM OR DISABLED OR OTHERWISE IN NEED BY THE PROVISION OF HOMECARE SERVICES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF A DAY CENTRE, AND THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF HOMECARE SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THEIR WORKERS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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