Finance Score: 13

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 12

Good reserves management: +3
Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3
Future income +5

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 34

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:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
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 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
31/08/23	£1,128	£1,046	£82	£59	£528	£430	4.9	15	0
31/08/22	£542	£579	£-37	£0	£446	£332	6.9	11	1
31/08/21	£859	£751	£108	£0	£483	£336	5.4	8	10
31/08/20?	£793	£528	£266	£0	£374	£254	5.8	6	30
31/05/19	£234	£125	£109	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 15%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 4.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 5.2

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 6 years

www.chefsinschools.org.uk

hello@chefsinschools.org.uk

07554661755

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Healthy eating

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

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

Guy's and St Thomas' Charity	£1,484,811
Rothschild Foundation	£170,000
Mark Leonard Trust	£120,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£25,000
The London Community Foundation	£19,676
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards its work.
£5,000	24/07/2024 12	Towards its work.
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 48	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 36	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: 21-62

ANDRE BAILEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: School Principal

CHRISTINA ADANE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Director

HENRY DIMBLEBY (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: None

JASBIR KAUR NOTAY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Finance Consultant

KAREN MARTIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Company Chief Executive

MELANIE NEILL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

THOMASINA MIERS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: None

TAMSIN COOPER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Managing Director

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

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
Investing charity funds 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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

5 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

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