Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 14
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

BREADWINNERS FOUNDATION 

Breadwinners is an ambitious grassroots charity set up in April 2016. Our aim is to support refugees through their first steps into employment, work experience, entrepreneurship, and mentoring whilst providing the best organic artisan bread.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 8 years

www.breadwinners.org.uk

hello@breadwinners.org.uk

07783996918

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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
31/03/23*£562£620£-58£0£104£681.36134
31/03/22£466£396£70n/an/an/an/an/a101
31/03/21£259£212£47n/an/an/an/an/a41
31/03/20£168£159£9n/an/an/an/an/a39
31/03/19£114£92£21n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/18£32£47£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£40£9£31£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 66%
Reserves/Spending: 1.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 12.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 6 employees
  • 134 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
Henry Smith Charity£210,000
The Berkeley Foundation£31,998
The Rayne Foundation£30,000
The Fore£28,000
Sussex Community Foundation£24,983
The London Community Foundation£22,490
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Breadwinners
£210,000 05/12/2023
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing education and employment support and mentoring for refugees and asylum seekers in London and Brighton.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Breadwinners
£5,000 17/11/2023
Funding was provided towards staff costs.
The Berkeley Foundation - Cost of Living Grant
£3,000 30/03/2023
One-off, unrestricted grant
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Breadwinners
£9,983 11/11/2022
Funding was provided to expand their pilot programme.
The Berkeley Foundation - Resilience Fund
£28,998 05/01/2022
Resilience Fund - Year 1 Wave 1
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Breadwinners
£10,000 17/11/2021
12
Funding was provided to take their London model of supporting refugees and people seeking asylum into employment through bread market stalls to Brighton & Hove.
National Lottery Community Fund - BREADWINNERS - LIFE-CHANGING WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG REFUGEES
£10,000 20/08/2021
The funding will enable the organisation to take their successful bread-making selling and mentoring project model to Brighton which is aimed at supporting young refugees and people seeking asylum. ....more
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Breadwinners Foundation
£30,000 21/09/2020
36
Towards the core costs of a social enterprise that provides work experience, training and mentoring to young refugees and people seeking asylum by selling artisan organic bread across London.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Breadwinners
£22,490 22/04/2020
This funding will fund the development, technology, equipment and training we need to redesign our two programmes to be delivered remotely ongoing. We are now selling and delivering bread online. We ....more
The Fore - Grant to Breadwinners
£28,000 01/04/2020
24
Breadwinners supports refugees and young asylum seekers through a social enterprise that sells artisanal, organic bread. For those with refugee status, the Breadwinners programme provides paid ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - RISERS - LIFE CHANGING WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG REFUGEES
£10,000 03/03/2020
3
The project provides access to retail and work experience together with mentoring that will help to build confidence, communication and interpersonal skills to help participants prepare for their ....more
The EQ Foundation - Grant to BREADWINNERS FOUNDATION
£1,375 15/12/2019
Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019
Greater London Authority - Grant to Breadwinners
£10,000 01/03/2019
Risers - Life Changing Volunteering for Young Refugees A two-month programme run 4 times a year, supporting young refugees (16-20 years old) and those seeking asylum in London to gain volunteering ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - TPP3 - Life-changing Training for Refugees
£49,755 25/06/2018
11
The group will support young refugees and asylum seekers to be better prepared for employment through training, volunteering opportunities, a coaching programme and work experience. People will be ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Breadwinners - delivering fresh bread and fresh starts
£9,882 18/01/2017
12
This project will skills workshops for people who are not in education, employment or training, are homeless or from the refugee community. This will help them to improve their life chances and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/04/2016, number: 1166646
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR23: 35 days late,
Main office

29 Parnell Road
LONDON
E3 2RS

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY PROVIDING THOSE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED WITH IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE OPPORTUNITY, EQUIPMENT, MICROFUNDING AND SUPPORT TO ESTABLISH AND GROW THEIR OWN BUSINESS TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS, LEARN NEW SKILLS AND PROGRESS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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