Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 10
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

PROJECT FOOD 

Project Food believes that everybody should be able to eat a nutritious diet irrespective of their income, so that they can enjoy better physical and mental health. We help people to develop the skills and confidence they need to prepare nutritious food for the future. We focus on resilience, supporting people to develop ways to eat that fit in to their lives and support their health.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • 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
  • Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£95,976£103,187£-7,21135
31/03/22£106,034£114,897£-8,86325
31/03/21£154,421£143,898£10,52320
31/03/20£244,458£164,106£80,35215
31/03/19£0£0£00
31/03/18£0£0£00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.project-food.org.uk

info@project-food.org.uk

01297631782

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 35 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
Devon Community Foundation£53,454
DCMS£21,893
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£4,232
Co-Operative Group£1,963
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Project Food
£1,963 21/10/2023
We would like to run family and SEN kids cooking clubs at our Axminster Hospital kitchens. This helps people to have fun together, develop friendships and learn how to cook easy food.
Devon Community Foundation - Food Support for people with physical and mental disabilities and their families
£19,996 07/06/2023
Food Support for people with physical and mental disabilities and their families
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Project Food
£3,000 13/02/2023
5 x recovery groups for survivors of domestic violence and abuse in Exeter
Devon Community Foundation - Food Support for people with physical and mental disabilities
£7,979 20/12/2022
Transport and communication device costs for victims of rape, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation
Devon Community Foundation - Grant to Project Food
£2,000 19/10/2022
Healthy cooking sessions for children with SEND and/or disabilities.
Devon Community Foundation - Food support for people with mental health problems and struggling families
£1,000 16/03/2022
Project Food will provide free recipe boxes for people on a low income.
Devon Community Foundation - Food support for vulnerable peopl
£8,328 19/01/2022
Food boxes, meals, recipe cards, cookery classes for vulnerable families and mental health support
National Lottery Community Fund - Food resilience for people with mental health problems
£10,000 05/11/2021
The funding will be used to run group and individual food workshops for people with mental health problems. The project aims to help participants learn cooking skills to build confidence increase ....more
Devon Community Foundation - Food support for people with mental health problems and struggling families
£1,993 10/08/2021
Provision of fresh food and cooked meals alongside small-group or 1:1 support in cooking skills for those with mental health challenges and families with young children.
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Food support
£2,991 02/12/2020
5
Grant to Project Food
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,000 24/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Devon Community Foundation - COVID19 Core Cost Support
£4,000 23/09/2020
Grant to Project Food
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£17,893 23/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Health and Local Food for Families
£4,232 18/05/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that promotes food education for the community in Devon
Devon Community Foundation - COVID-19 Free fresh food deliveries for the vulnerable and support phone calls
£2,167 07/04/2020
Grant to Health and Local Food for Families
Devon Community Foundation - Cooking for One - Axminster and Seaton
£4,977 24/11/2016
12
support for people living alone so that they can learn how to improve their diet, through cooking healthier food, food planning and budgeting, nutrition and labelling, understanding more about how ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/05/2017, number: 1173120
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

Axminster Hospital
Chard Street
AXMINSTER
Devon
EX13 5DU

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN SOUTH WEST ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE EDUCATION ON HEALTHY EATING, COOKING AND OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN SOUTH WEST ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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