Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

HARROW FOODBANK 

The Harrow Foodbank has as its objective the prevention or relief of poverty in Harrow and surrounding areas in particular, but not exclusively, by providing emergency food supplies to individuals in need and to charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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 recently and was substantially in excess of spending in the latest year

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£123£71£51n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/22£290£271£19n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/21£183£76£107n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/20£135£146£-11n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/19£63£52£11n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/18*£143£139£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£114£134£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£147£121£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£141£145£-4£0£0£0n/a00

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

www.harrow.foodbank.org.uk

info@harrow.foodbank.org.uk

02084167344

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Harrow,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 25 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
City Bridge Trust£39,000
The Trussell Trust£8,680
Masonic Trust£1,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harrow Foodbank
£5,000 11/10/2022
Emergency grant
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,000 06/12/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harrow Foodbank
£3,680 24/02/2021
Fogging unit, insurance and fuel costs for van to be used for home deliveries
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Harrow Foodbank
£39,000 23/04/2020
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£39,000 over three years (3 x £13,000) towards the salary and on-costs of the Project Manager.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Harrow Foodbank
£7,291 19/11/2018
We need a warehouse facility to process and store the 50 tonnes of donated food that we give to 1700 people each year.
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Long-Term Support for Harrow Foodbank Clients
£10,000 25/05/2018
12
The funding will be used to contribute to a project manager's salary. The project aims to provide additional resources for infrastructure development of services available to residents in crisis.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/10/2013, number: 1154292
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
9 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR16: 2 days late,
Main office

Unit H2
Phoenix Business Centre
Rosslyn Crescent
HARROW

Objectives

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN HARROW AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND TO CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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