Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 14

SQUARE FOOD FOUNDATION

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO HEALTHY EATING DIET AND NUTRITION IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP PEOPLE?S SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND CAPABILITIES IN COOKERY AND NUTRITION.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
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 does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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.squarefoodfoundation.co.uk

info@squarefoodfoundation.co.uk

01179039780

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/08/22	£329	£237	£92	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	73
31/08/21	£162	£171	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/08/20	£232	£126	£106	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/08/19	£42	£74	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/08/18	£54	£15	£39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	25

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
73 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

Quartet Community Foundation	£69,158
OVO Foundation	£40,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£20,000
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Recipe kits for low income families
£10,000	28/09/2023	This funding will be used to provide weekly recipe kits to families who are experiencing food insecurity. The project aims to improve health and bring people together.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Square Food Foundation
£5,000	22/12/2022	For new IT hardware to replace outdated equipment which will enable staff to work more effectively both on site and flexibly, and will greatly improve the overall efficiency of the charity.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Square Food Foundation
£5,000	15/11/2022	Providing weekly recipe kits to low-income families (through FOOD clubs and schools), encouraging families to cook from scratch, try out new recipes and provide a further meal per week.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Square Food Foundation
£10,000	21/06/2022	43% of the salary costs for a programme of cooking education for young people struggling in mainstream education or who are NEET in Bristol.
National Lottery Community Fund - Square Food Foundation's Virtual Cooking Club
£10,000	24/09/2021	The project will deliver a virtual cooking club to families in the community. This will enable them to remove barriers to accessing nutritious and healthy meals and address food poverty. It will ....more The project will deliver a virtual cooking club to families in the community. This will enable them to remove barriers to accessing nutritious and healthy meals and address food poverty. It will also through partnership working enable families to be signposted to other services.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Square Food Foundation
£29,104	24/08/2021 4	Toward the fit out of a new kitchen at the Park Community Centre in Knowle West, for use in the group's open access food and cookery education work.
Quartet Community Foundation - A Recipe for Resilience
£5,000	24/11/2020	To provide healthy, home-cooked meals for local families, skills-based training for young people NEET & DIY kits for children to encourage home-cooking.
OVO Foundation - OVO Gives Back - 2020-2021
£20,000	02/06/2020	This grant will be used to re-start Square Food Foundation's School Food Project helping local families to create nutritious meals which is increasingly important in the face of Covid19.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Square Food Foundation
£4,839	02/04/2020	To prepare, cook, pack and label 500 healthy meals per day for 100 local families that usually rely on Free School Meals to feed their children.
Quartet Community Foundation - The School Food Project (SFP)
£9,999	20/03/2020 3	SFP aims to alleviate food poverty in Knowle West by transforming food culture & practice within one local school using high quality education about nutrition/cookery for children, staff & ....more SFP aims to alleviate food poverty in Knowle West by transforming food culture & practice within one local school using high quality education about nutrition/cookery for children, staff & parents.
OVO Foundation - OVO Gives Back - 2019-2020
£20,000	01/08/2019	This grant was used to deliver cookery workshops for children, young people and families throughout the school holidays.
Quartet Community Foundation - The Family Food Project
£10,216	18/07/2019 5	For the continuation of the Family Food project that provides healthy cooking sessions for families base din Knowle West.
Quartet Community Foundation - The Family Food Project
£10,026	14/02/2019 5	Towards community cookery for low-income families.
Quartet Community Foundation - How To Be A Chef
£5,000	13/12/2018 3	Toward the cost of delivering a 12-week accredited training programme in food and cooking for young people in Bristol aged 16-25 years.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

CATHERINE ROBERTA STEELE Appointed: 2016

DANIEL FARMER Appointed: 2022

DR HELEN ELIZABETH MILLER Appointed: 2023

JACQUELINE ALDRIDGE Appointed: 2021

LUKE CHARLES SAPSED (Chair) Appointed: 2018

REBECCA JANE COLE Appointed: 2023

STEPHEN RICHARD WRAY Appointed: 2016

SIAN PAMELA FLYNN Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/06/2017, number: 1173323

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

THE PARK CENTRE
DAVENTRY ROAD
BRISTOL
BS4 1DQ

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO HEALTHY EATING DIET AND NUTRITION IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP PEOPLE’S SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND CAPABILITIES IN COOKERY AND NUTRITION.

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