Overall GiG Score: 28 ?
Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

CHEFS IN SCHOOLS 

OUR MISSION:To improve the health of children through better eating and food education and inspire schools to believe that better is possible
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Established: 6 years

www.chefsinschools.org.uk

hello@chefsinschools.org.uk

07554661755

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£542£579£-37£0£446£3326.9111
31/08/21£859£751£108£0£483£3365.4810
31/08/20?£793£528£266£0£374£2545.8630
31/05/19£234£125£109n/an/an/an/an/a0
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 12%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 75%
Reserves/Spending: 6.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 5.8
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 11 employees
  • 1 volunteer
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity£1,484,811
Mark Leonard Trust£310,000
Rothschild Foundation£170,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£75,000
Esmee Fairbairn£70,000
The London Community Foundation£19,676
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£15,000
The Michael And Betty Little Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Michael And Betty Little Trust - Chefs in Schools
£10,000 23/09/2023
Helping schools revolutionise standards of food and food education
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Chefs in Schools
£150,000 06/12/2022
Unrestricted core funding to scale the impact of our work transforming school food, food education and culture
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - Chefs in Schools phase 2
£1,337,240 29/09/2022
To provide core funding to Chefs in Schools (CiS) to support implementation of a number of strategic priorities over the next 4 years
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Chefs in Schools
£20,000 18/07/2022
Recruitment of additional chef trainer to allow us to meet demand
Mark Leonard Trust - Towards core funding
£120,000 20/06/2022
Core funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£25,000 12/11/2021
Transforming School Food
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Chefs in Schools
£9,896 03/02/2021
3
The funding is for nutritious food hampers for families who are struggling with food insecurity
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity - training programme dev
£147,571 05/08/2020
Development phase - training programme for school kitchen chefs/staff
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards Covid-19 emergency response costs.
£1,000 03/07/2020
Towards Covid-19 emergency response costs.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Chefs in Schools
£9,780 17/06/2020
A food hamper service which provides five days’ worth of nutritious lunches for vulnerable families including those eligible for Free School Meals in London.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Chefs in Schools
£10,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Chefs in Schools
£15,000 11/12/2019
12
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Chefs in Schools
£60,000 23/09/2019
36
Towards the expansion of the School by Schools element of Chefs in Schools activities and the other programme developments described in your application
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 16/04/2019
The Hackney School of Food
Mark Leonard Trust - MLT Portfolio
£190,000 04/04/2019
For participation in the Trustees' Porffolio of Venture grants
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 20-61
  • KAREN MARTIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Chief Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/06/2018, number: 1178964
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/05/2018, number: 11356489
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

First Floor
River House
1 Maidstone Road
Sidcup
Kent
DA14 5RH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO:-(1) ADVANCE EDUCATION IN COOKERY AND FOOD PREPARATION;(2) ADVANCE HEALTH THROUGH (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE IMPROVEMENT OF FOOD STANDARDS IN SCHOOLS;FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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