Overall GiG Score: -7 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -8
Support Score: 4
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Very static board: -5
  • Grant maker support: +4

FAIRFIELD ENVIRONMENT TRUST 

Through its wholly-owned trading subsidiary Fairfield Environmental Services Limited, thecharity provides a leading-edge waste re-use and recycling service in East Manchesterspecialising in fresh foodstuffs and their packaging. Through this enterprise it createsemployment and volunteering opportunities and provides work-experience places to localresidents.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be very static

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 and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 11 years

www.fairfieldrecycling.org.uk

finance@bridge5mill.org.uk

01612312139

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UN SDGs
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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
31/05/23£58£75£-17n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/05/22*£1,061£1,080£-18£698£734£6417.12520
31/05/21£1,409£1,365£44£1,074£753£5955.21920
31/05/20£1,340£1,307£33£1,005£709£6245.726150
31/05/19£1,396£1,350£46£1,054£676£6005.3320
31/05/18£72£75£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/17£131£47£84£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/16£55£34£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/15£69£18£51£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/14£145£13£132£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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
DCMS - GRCF2020 Kindling Heritage Tree Nursery: mitigating climate change and building biodiversity through edible trees
£107,850 11/11/2020
Green Recovery Challenge Fund 2020-21. The wider aim of the scheme is: The Green Recovery Challenge Fund is a short-term competitive fund to kick-start environmental renewal whilst creating and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 15/07/2019
Woodbank Community Food Hub

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 50-69
  • HELEN WOODCOCK Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Charity Development Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/07/2013, number: 1153131
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/04/2013, number: 08488814
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR22: 119 days late,
Main office

BRIDGE 5 MILL
22A BESWICK STREET
MANCHESTER
M4 7HR

Objectives

A. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:I. THE PROMOTION OF WASTE REDUCTION, RE-USE RECLAMATION, RECYCLING, USE OF RECYCLED PRODUCTS AND THE USE OF SURPLUS;II. ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF WASTE GENERATION, WASTE MANAGEMENT AND WASTE RECYCLING.B. THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:I. THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES;II. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES;III. THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS ?DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.?C. THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR IN NORTH WEST ENGLAND) BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:I. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT;II. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE;III. THE PROTECTION OR CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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