Overall GiG Score: 22 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 16
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +13

RAINHAM FOODBANK 

TO RELIEVE PERSONS INNEED WITHIN THE BOROUGHS OF HAVERING , BARKING AND DAGENHAM AND ENVIRON OF HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (BENEFICIARIES) IN SUCH WAYS OF THE TRUSTEES DEEM FIT. TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY FOOD TO BENEFICIARIES, RESTORE DIGNITIES, REVIVE HOPE AND TRANSFORM LIVES. WE UNDERTAKE OTHER MORE THAN FOOD PROJECTS TO BREAK CYCLES OF POVERTY , FOSTER INTERGARTION, PREVENT ISOLATION AND LONLINESS.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age 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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 10 years

www.rainham.foodbank.org.uk

info@rainham.foodbank.org.uk

01708397484

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
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
31/12/22£238£270£-32n/an/an/an/an/a97
31/12/21£178£276£-98n/an/an/an/an/a97
31/12/20£367£102£265n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/12/19£189£111£79n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/12/18£39£39£0£0£0£0n/a010
31/12/17£32£25£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£13£16£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15*£12£9£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14*£1£1£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 97 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham, Havering,

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£518,797
The Trussell Trust£463,782
The Clothworkers Foundation£45,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
The Fore£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£5,450 22/09/2023
Emergency Support Grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£86,073 07/09/2023
Data & IT support; sewing project; sessional counsellors; CMA service; continuation funding
National Lottery Community Fund - CSR3 ‘Community Advocacy’ Project
£28,556 30/08/2023
Funding will be used to continue and expand Rainham Foodbank’s services by recruiting a new Network & Development Co-ordinator to better promote the foodbank plan its offering and train staff.
National Lottery Community Fund - More Than Food [Community Post-COVID Recovery Initiative]
£490,241 04/11/2022
This funding will enable Rainham Foodbank’s More Than Food to open seven days a week. As well as a food and clothes bank for low-income families the project will also provide drop-in support ....more
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£97,442 12/10/2022
Pathfinder Manager, FT
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£5,000 11/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£46,767 05/05/2022
CAB adviser 14hpw, 2yrs
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£34,765 05/10/2021
part-time Project Manager
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£45,000 29/10/2020
Refurbishment - building for a charity supporting disadvantage communities in Havering
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£22,905 30/09/2020
Money Advice Officer
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£3,250 27/05/2020
CV emergency costs: salary costs, telephony
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to RAINHAM FOODBANK
£5,000 06/05/2020
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to RAINHAM FOODBANK, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£2,951 26/03/2020
CV emergency costs: delivery costs, hygiene
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£4,590 30/10/2019
12
Counselling advice service
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£4,590 30/10/2019
Counselling advice service
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£75,000 25/06/2019
36
New premises
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£75,000 25/06/2019
New premises
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 16/04/2019
Feeding families and individuals in crisis and offering poverty reduction programs to address our clients crisis.
National Lottery Community Fund - More than Food
£293,380 01/10/2018
36
The project will provide service users with a variety of interventions. This will include a supply of food parcels, advice and advocacy provision, employability support, a broad range of user-led ....more
Trust for London - Rainham Foodbank
£18,000 14/06/2018
24
The funding is to fund the cost of a sewing tutor, 16 hours per week equals two days per week. Contact time 6 hours, preparation time 10 hours. The aims are to break the patterns of isolation and to ....more
London Catalyst - Rainham Foodbank - 1
£4,000 07/12/2017
Sewing Project to improve the employment skills of RF users
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Rainham Foodbank
£2,541 29/11/2017
We want to increase our capacity to assist more people in crisis through the provision of essential food items and other necessary services.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 14/09/2017
Contribution to Core Costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/02/2014, number: 1155807
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/12/2013, number: 08813701
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
9 returns made; AR15: 76 days late, AR14: 31 days late,
Main office

1st Floor Unit 3-4 Mick Fury House
Lowen Close
Rainham
Essex
RM13 8HT

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:THE OBJECTS OF THIS CHARITY ARE: TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN RAINHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS WITHIN THE BOROUGHS OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM AND HAVERING WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (BENEFICIARIES) IN SUCH WAYS OF THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.IN FURTHERMORE OF THE FIRST OBJECT, TO SUPPLY FOOD RATIONS BOXES TO BENEFICIARIES, EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH AGENCY PARTNERS APPROVED BY THE TRUSTEES, SUCH FOOD RATION BOXES TO CONTAIN TINNED AND DRIED FOODS TO ENSURE A HEALTHY, BALANCED AND NUTRITIOUS DIET SUFFICIENT FOR UP TO 3 DAYS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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