Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

FEEDING FAMILIES 

Our mission is to 1) Provide relief to any person experiencing poverty primarily in north east England. We will do this, in particular but not exclusively, through the provision of food, education and other resources which they could not otherwise afford.2) Promote wellbeing and mental health for those who give and receive aid.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

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

feedingfamilies.org.uk

info@feedingfamilies.org.uk

07767486978

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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
31/03/23£792£453£339£0£486£2606.974,388
31/03/22£256£207£49n/an/an/an/an/a3,375
31/03/21?£212£136£76n/an/an/an/an/a3,200
31/12/19£63£42£21n/an/an/an/an/a1,500
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 54%
Reserves/Spending: 6.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 12 months
Quick Ratio: 85.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 7 employees
  • 4,388 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
County Durham Community Foundation£47,310
National Lottery Community Fund£30,000
The Fore£15,000
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£15,000
The Greggs Foundation£10,770
DCMS£10,000
Co-Operative Group£8,171
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Feeding Families
£4,455 21/10/2023
The demand for our service has increased 50% in 2022; we would like funds to support more people within our communities who are experiencing hunger and food poverty.
County Durham Community Foundation - Emergency Food Boxes
£9,960 07/12/2022
Towards Emergency Food Boxes.
The Greggs Foundation - North East Core Funding
£10,770 25/11/2022
£10,770 over one year towards the salary of their CEO
County Durham Community Foundation - Poverty Hurts Launch
£100 18/11/2022
This is a grant offered to cover expenses for the Poverty hurts launch.
County Durham Community Foundation - Christmas food
£8,000 14/09/2022
To provide food for a Christmas campaign.
County Durham Community Foundation - Emergency boxes
£2,000 14/09/2022
To provide Emergency food boxes.
National Lottery Community Fund - Welcome Home Boxes
£10,000 20/05/2022
The funding will be used to expand their ‘Welcome Home Boxes’ service for vulnerable people leaving hospital with limited support or having to self-isolate. This includes older people the ....more
County Durham Community Foundation - Volunteer
£5,000 10/03/2022
The Volunteer programme.
County Durham Community Foundation - Grant to Feeding Families
£750 11/02/2022
To support the work of the charity.
County Durham Community Foundation - Emergency boxes
£1,000 20/01/2022
Emergency boxes for County Durham families.
The Fore - Grant to Feeding Families
£15,000 11/11/2021
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Feeding Families fills gaps in food provision, giving emergency support to those not able to access food banks, and working in partnership with local charities and organizations who do not have food ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Feeding Families
£10,000 14/10/2021
Core costs for expansion of food poverty service into Newcastle
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Feeding Families
£5,000 23/09/2021
Core costs - increasing staffing capacity to deliver services from the distribution site in Blaydon
County Durham Community Foundation - Christmas hampers
£2,500 20/08/2021
To provide Christmas hampers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Blaydon packing centre
£10,000 23/07/2021
The project will use the funding to expand its food support services from their newly opened second food packing centre in Blaydon. This will provide food and meals for vulnerable people families ....more
County Durham Community Foundation - Youth champions
£10,000 25/03/2021
To support a youth champions initiative.
County Durham Community Foundation - Feeding Families 2021
£5,000 27/11/2020
Towards feeding families 2021.
County Durham Community Foundation - Feeding Families 2021
£3,000 27/11/2020
To support families in food poverty.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Feeding Families
£3,716 24/10/2020
We will engage donors and volunteers to deliver food to the local community to alleviate food poverty.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 08/07/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Feeding Families 2019
£10,000 27/06/2019
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The funding will be used to expand their support for volunteers, and enable them to provide Christmas hampers to more families in food poverty.
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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 28/08/2018, number: 1179694
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
  • 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
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Feeding Families HQ
Unit 2
Franklin Park
Patterson Street
BLAYDON-ON-TYNE
Tyne And

Objectives

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE UK BY PROVIDING CHRISTMAS HAMPERS TO ANY PERSON IN NEED, EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH CHARITIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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