Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

FAT MACY'S FOUNDATION

The Fat Macy's Foundation is a homelessness charity that provides employment and skills training, 1:1 tailored support, professional mental health support, resettlement guidance, and access to housing deposits for those living in temporary accommodation. We provide an innovative way of facilitating the transition into a stable home and employment for people experiencing homelessness.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

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

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
31/12/23£325£295£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£210£214£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£192£319£-128n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20*£181£87£94n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19?£28£24£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/05/18£42£1£41n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.fatmacys.org

foundation@fatmacys.org

07932717708

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Shelter for homeless, vulnerable & excluded people
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£113,000
National Lottery Community Fund£91,000
City Bridge Trust£83,300
DCMS£66,900
The Clothworkers Foundation£30,000
Postcode Society Trust£24,200
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Society Trust - Project Funding
£24,200 29/09/2023
Players helped fund the 'Milestone Programme', which supports people experiencing homelessness into homes and meaningful employment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fat Macy's Milestone Roadshow
£10,000 22/09/2023
The funding will be used to deliver an outreach roadshow targeting people living in hostels and other temporary accommodation. The project aims to support people to develop skills and experience that will reduce dependency on benefits and help them ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Expanding training academies across London
£3,000 18/01/2023
Fat Macy’s Foundation works with young people in London, supporting them to get out of homelessness and into their own homes via catering employment. This grant supports Fat Macy’s to utilise a gifted space in Shoreditch to create a new ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to FAT MACY'S
£50,000 19/07/2022
24
£50,000 over two years (£25,000; £25,000) for the costs of delivering therapeutic support to the organisation’s beneficiaries and a contribution to core costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Focused Living CIC x Fat Macy's Training Academy
£10,000 04/03/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a catering training employability and wellbeing programme for people who have experienced homelessness. The project aims to increase participants skills confidence and employability opportunities.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Fat Macy's
£30,000 01/02/2022
Refurbishment of building and equipment for a charity supporting people experiencing homelessness in London
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Expanding training academies across London
£90,000 19/07/2021
Fat Macy’s Foundation works with young people in London, supporting them to get out of homelessness and into their own homes via catering employment. This grant supports Fat Macy’s to utilise a gifted space in Shoreditch to create a new ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 01/04/2021
Fat Macy's Training Academy
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£66,900 27/11/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Fat Macy's
£33,300 25/08/2020
£33,300 to Fat Macy’s Foundation for additional staff time from the CEO and marketing and press lead to review its business development plan, increase the customer base and corporate contracts, and undertake financial modelling, to enable the ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 19/08/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
National Lottery Community Fund - Emergency Relief Fund
£61,000 08/07/2020
6
The funding will be used to provide emergency relief support including 121 support food parcels essential items and cooking equipment to those who are living in hostels. The project works with young people living in hostel accommodation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Fat Macy's Training Academy
£10,000 03/02/2020
12
The project will use the funding to provide chef's training, well-being and skills sessions for people who are leaving homelessness, as well as and provide an intervention to support people.
The Fore - Grant to Fat Macy's
£30,000 01/04/2019
24
Fat Macy's is a catering social enterprise that helps people with nowhere to live put down a deposit for their first rented accommodation. It initially provides five-day catering boot camps in partnership with homeless hostels. Then, once trainees ....more
The Fore - Grant to Fat Macy's
£30,000 29/03/2019
24
The Fore funded Fat Macy's to provide the necessary staff capacity to open its own restaurant, significantly increasing its revenue and the number of trainees it can support. This should enable Fat Macy’s to create a sevenfold increase in the ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Co-design offer
£10,000 20/12/2018
Co-designing changes to their bootcamp to include consideration of wellbeing and mental health.
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£10,000 20/12/2018
Running workshops and events to ensure their new space works well for building social connections between the people who use it
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Codesign
£10,000 20/12/2018
Co-designing changes to their bootcamp to include consideration of wellbeing and mental health.
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Community Spaces
£10,000 20/12/2018
Running workshops and events to ensure their new space works well for building social connections between the people who use it
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Feasibility study: redesigning temporary accommodation systems in London
£10,075 29/11/2018
6
Fat Macy's is a catering social enterprise that works with people experiencing homelessness living in temporary accommodation. This grant will support a feasibility study exploring innovative solutions to the challenges around temporary accomodation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Fat Macy's Foundation
£6,099 19/11/2018
Help us pay for ingredients and equipment to run catering training in hostels to give Londoners a second chance at employment.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANNE-MARIE TWUMASI Appointed: 2021
  • ANTHONY DAWES Appointed: 2021
  • CHRISTOPHER ATTOE Appointed: 2021
  • DEBBIE JACKSON Appointed: 2020
  • EDWARD MBARAGA Appointed: 2017
  • IONA POPAT Appointed: 2020
  • STEFFEN HOYEMSVOLL Appointed: 2017
  • SARAH KATE FARRELLY Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/07/2017, number: 1173688
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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
  • Investment
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR20: 4 days late,
Main office

232 Shoreditch High Street
LONDON
E1 6PJ

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR OF THOSE CURRENTLY LIVING IN TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, HOMELESS HOSTELS AND HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS BY THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL ADVICE, CATERING TRAINING, EMOTIONAL WELLBEING SUPPORT AND SUCH OTHER SUPPORT AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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