Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

REACH COMMUNITY PROJECTS

We run projects aimed at helping clients who are in financial crisis these included: A drop-in centre to access Reach resources; Free debt advice; Foodbank providing emergency food parcels; Starter Packs providing essential bedding and kitchenware; Client Aid providing essential items such as white goods; and our outreach team who take all of the Reach resources out to surrounding villages.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£627£562£65£31£151£1112.41785
30/09/22£382£474£-92n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/21£396£353£44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/20£337£267£70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/19£264£243£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/18£181£185£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/17£75£72£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 27%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 74%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 12.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 8 years

www.reachhaverhill.org.uk

info@reachhaverhill.org.uk

0800 009 6710

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
The Trussell Trust£562,632
National Lottery Community Fund£343,166
Essex Community Foundation£68,000
Suffolk Community Foundation£60,319
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Postcode Places Trust£24,683
The Grocers' Charity£10,000
CAF£7,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - REACH Community Project
£10,000 04/01/2024
to contribute towards the salary of their Community Outreach Advisor (COA), supporting those in financial crisis or hardship throughout North Essex
The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - Reach Community Projects
£5,000 14/12/2023
To support the development of outreach activities in order to help people in the local community (Suffolk) manage their way out of debt and hardship and improve their quality of life.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£81,896 07/09/2023
Continuation funding for Local Influencer 5dpw (PF1), Administration Officer 3.5dpw (PF2), Communications Team Leader 5dpw (PF2); New activity funding for Community Connector 5dpw and project costs
National Lottery Community Fund - REACH Community Projects
£343,166 17/08/2023
This funding will be used to help families and individuals who are suffering from or struggling with the effects of financial crisis or hardship using relational handholding approach. The project aims to support people to access services; act as ....more
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£27,945 12/12/2022
Impact & evaluation consultant, Impact & Data Co-ordinator, equipment
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£5,000 12/10/2022
Emergency grant
Postcode Places Trust - Holistic Help for People Facing Hardship
£24,683 27/08/2022
Funding helped 2700 people facing poverty, hunger and homelessness with food, aid, extra benefits, debt advice and housing support
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£104,945 31/05/2022
Administration Officer (P/T) and Communications Team Leader (F/T) posts
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to REACH Community Project
£8,000 27/01/2022
towards the salary of a community outreach advisor to support residents in the north Braintree area who are experiencing hardship issues
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£157,830 06/12/2021
Local Influencer
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£45,846 30/11/2021
Employment of a Volunteer Experience Coordinator
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£25,000 24/09/2021
24
Helping People Facing Poverty and Crisis Get Their Lives Back on Track
Suffolk Community Foundation - Supporting poverty-affected rural communities with healthy food
£820 15/06/2021
Towards expanding their foodbank provision across rural West Suffolk.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£85,049 25/05/2021
36
In-house Community Outreach Adviser 30 hpw, for three years
Suffolk Community Foundation - Covid Local Supoprt Grant
£3,500 14/05/2021
2
Hardship Funding Round 5.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£520 04/05/2021
public speaking training
Suffolk Community Foundation - Suffolk's Hardship Fund - R4
£5,000 29/03/2021
2
Suffolk's Hardship Fund - R4.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£25,000 26/03/2021
24
New post - Admin Officer, 18 hpw over two years
Suffolk Community Foundation - Helping People in and around Haverhill with Pandemic-Related Debt
£5,000 25/03/2021
11
Supporting clients with debt problems in and around Haverhill.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£1,313 08/03/2021
Storage crates
Suffolk Community Foundation - Suffolk's Hardship Fund - Round 3
£5,000 14/02/2021
1
To support families in hardship.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Team Hunger Heroes: Reach Youth Volunteering Programme
£5,000 11/02/2021
7
To support the Team Hunger Heroes: Reach Youth Volunteering Programme.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£800 20/01/2021
Purchase of 100 storage boxes to store increased food donations.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Newmarket Outreach Project
£3,000 04/01/2021
11
To support a new outreach project in Newmarket.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Newmarket Outreach Project
£1,000 04/01/2021
To support a new outreach project in Newmarket.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Surviving Winter - Fuel Poverty
£5,500 02/01/2021
3
Surviving Winter Fuel Poverty grant.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Suffolk's Hardship Fund
£3,500 16/12/2020
2
To support those in need from the Covid pandemic.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Newmarket Outreach Project
£3,000 01/12/2020
11
To support a new outreach project in Newmarket.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Haverhill Foodbank
£4,000 22/11/2020
11
Towards the foodbank managers part time salary.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£26,489 25/09/2020
Income maximisation - debt and money advisors
Suffolk Community Foundation - Suffolk's hardship fund
£5,000 21/08/2020
3
Supporting Haverhill residents with the effects of Covid.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Reach Community Projects
£5,000 29/06/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Reach Community Projects, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
CAF - Grant to Reach Community Projects
£7,000 24/06/2020
3
Grant to Reach Community Projects to support the organisation through COVID19
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Reach Community Projects
£5,000 17/06/2020
Working to increase social mobility through training courses, better facilities or parenting support
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to REACH Community Projects CIO
£4,999 23/04/2020
5
to provide a proportion of staff costs, equipment and expenses such as volunteer travel and food parcel packaging to reflect the increase (not existing) demand for services such as frontline food delivery and fuel support ( as well as signposting ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Emergency Covid-19 services, in addition to our regular services
£4,999 09/04/2020
5
To support additional services to support the local community as well as the foodbank. Covid19
Essex Community Foundation - Reach in the Community
£50,000 29/01/2020
23
To continue to employ a Community Outreach Advisor to support clients with housing and debt issues in South East Suffolk over two years
Suffolk Community Foundation - Surviving Winter DD
£6,000 15/01/2020
5
Surviving Winter Donor Designation.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Team Hunger Heroes: Reach Youth Volunteering Programme
£5,000 21/11/2019
12
To support the Team Hunger Heroes: Reach Youth Volunteering Programme.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Haverhill Food Bank
£3,000 09/10/2019
11
Haverhill Food Bank core costs.
Essex Community Foundation - Reach into the Community
£31,588 01/03/2019
11
To employ a Debt Advisor for 1 year to increase free face-to-face debt and housing advice to vulnerable people in Haverhill and the surrounding rural areas
Suffolk Community Foundation - Haverhill Foodbank
£10,000 06/02/2019
11
Towards running costs of the foodbank in Haverhill.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£25,546 05/01/2019
36
New food bank warehouse
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Haverhill Foodbank
£25,546 12/12/2018
New warehouse
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/12/2018
REACH Community Projects - Core funding application
Suffolk Community Foundation - Haverhill Foodbank
£2,500 29/11/2018
12
To enable young people the opportunity to volunteer at the Foodbank.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to REACH Community Projects
£3,059 19/11/2018
A computer and hardware will help local people struggling with poverty related issues in rural areas who cannot easily access our services.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Rapid Intervention
£8,841 23/10/2018
5
To support a Rapid Intervention Crisis fund - used to provide fuel payments (money is not given to recipient directly), curtains, carpets anything to make the home warm and lift people out of fuel poverty.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Grant to REACH Community Projects
£19,200 22/06/2018
24
Contribution towards two years' salary of the Operations Manager at a foodbank project and resource centre in Haverhill.
National Lottery Community Fund - Communities in the Lead Project
£9,750 14/06/2018
12
The funding will be used to work with volunteers and the community to identify improvements and develop their service for communities experiencing poverty. The project aims to help tackle rural poverty and raise aspirations of communities.
Suffolk Community Foundation - REACH into the Community
£4,000 13/06/2018
11
To support the Outreach worker role.
Suffolk Community Foundation - REACH into the Community
£4,000 28/03/2018
12
To continue the Reach into the Community project.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Reach Resource Centre
£3,000 24/01/2018
11
Towards the running costs of the Reach Resource Centre in Haverhill.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Haverhill Foodbank
£4,000 15/11/2017
12
Towards wages for a part time worker who coordinates the Food Bank project in Haverhill.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Reach Resource Centre
£4,251 30/10/2017
11
Towards the running costs of their Resource Centre which supports individuals who are struggling with poverty related issues.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Haverhill Foodbank
£5,000 10/10/2017
12
To enable young people the opportunity to volunteer at the Foodbank.
Suffolk Community Foundation - REACH Community Outreach Worker
£3,750 23/02/2017
To support the creation of a new Outreach worker role.
Suffolk Community Foundation - REACH Community Outreach Worker
£3,750 23/01/2017
To support the creation of a new Outreach worker role.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CLAIRE DARRACOTT Appointed: 2022
  • GAVIN PAUL JAMES ROWDEN Appointed: 2016
  • KIRSTEN DANIELLE NEWBLE Appointed: 2024
  • LEIGH DAVID CARTER Appointed: 2024
  • ROY DUNCAN GRAHAM (Chair) Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/09/2016, number: 1169108
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Reach Community Projects
Room 1
Wisdom Facilities Centre
42 Hollands Road
HAVERHILL
Suffolk

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN HAVERHILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE RELIEF OF THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY OR IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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