Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 15
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

BE ENRICHED ELEMENTS 

We are known as Be Enriched. We enrich community through food. Our projects strengthen community through food, build community, and provide skills training. We bring people together, share knowledge and cultivate long-standing relationships.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 7 years

www.be-enriched.org

hello@be-enriched.org

07397288160

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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
30/09/22£261£232£28n/an/an/an/an/a650
30/09/21£192£168£24n/an/an/an/an/a136
30/09/20£219£199£20n/an/an/an/an/a500
30/09/19*£67£62£6n/an/an/an/an/a400
30/09/18£51£67£-16£0£0£0n/a03,000
30/09/17£0£0£0£0£0£0NAN00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 650 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
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£70,541
The Childhood Trust£52,500
National Lottery Community Fund£33,000
The London Community Foundation£14,790
Co-Operative Group£6,164
Hyde Charitable Trust£3,981
Crowdfunder£2,838
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Hyde Charitable Trust - Booster Fund 2022/23
£3,981 21/02/2023
Booster Fund 2022/23
The Childhood Trust - The Food Bus
£50,000 23/12/2022
The London Food Bus is a converted double decker bus that provides good quality, affordable, fresh food to families in areas of high deprivation across Lambeth and Wandsworth. The bus includes a ....more
The Childhood Trust - C-59274
£2,500 28/06/2022
The London Food Bus is a converted double decker bus that provides good quality, affordable, fresh food to families in areas of high deprivation across Lambeth and Wandsworth. The bus includes a ....more
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£2,838 06/05/2022
Covid response
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Be Enriched
£9,790 15/12/2020
6
Food bus project costs to enable us to bring the bus into the areas of North Lambeth to work with schools, children centres and estates in the area and provide access to food that is also healthy and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Be Enriched Battersea Canteen
£6,164 24/10/2020
We will support young people from under-represented groups and young disabled adults to gain work skills through community meal involvement.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Covid-19 Food Charity Grant Scheme
£36,400 17/06/2020
The aim of this activity is to provide immediate support for a limited period of time to keep food charities and front-line charities that provide food aid open and supporting those most vulnerable ....more
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Covid-19 Food Charity Grant Scheme
£34,141 17/06/2020
The aim of this activity is to provide immediate support for a limited period of time to keep food charities and front-line charities that provide food aid open and supporting those most vulnerable ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Be Enriched
£5,000 15/04/2020
The funding will expand our current service of a weekly hot food and grocery box delivery service to the vulnerable communities we serve, including the elderly, socially isolated, those with chronic ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - See Application
£33,000 07/05/2019
144
The project will use the funding to form a food action plan for the borough, develop a food charter and develop work with small food businesses and entrepreneurs to encourage greater health within ....more
The Fore - Grant to Be Enriched Elements
£30,000 01/12/2018
24
Be Enriched Elements (BEE) repurposes food waste to reduce food insecurity and build supportive communities. In the past year, BEE rescued over 6,000kg of surplus food from retailers that would have ....more
The Fore - Grant to Be Enriched Elements
£30,000 30/11/2018
24
A grant from The Fore will allow the CEO to move from front-line work to focus on scaling and strategy, enabling the charity to increase its number of volunteers, develop new corporate partnerships ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/11/2016, number: 1170219
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR19: 11 days late,
Main office

98 Charlmont Road
LONDON
SW17 9AB

Objectives

1. TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST PEOPLE FROM SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY DELIVERING FREE COMMUNITY MEALS AND BY ADVANCING HEALTH AND NUTRITION EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.2. TO RELIEVE, ASSIST AND PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE BY PROVIDING FREE THERAPEUTIC SESSIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.3. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH EXPEDITIONS CARRIED OUT IN THE UK AND ABROAD FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING4. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION AND MENTORING PROGRAMMES FOR AND WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, WHICH PROMOTE PARTICIPATION AND INTEGRATION IN SOCIETY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF KEY PERSONAL SKILLS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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