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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

SWINDON'S FOOD COLLECTIVE LTD

Swindon's Food Collective works towards the prevention or relief of poverty and to preserve and protect good health by providing food and non-alcoholic beverages to those in financial need or poor health in the Swindon and District area of Wiltshire.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/03/23£275£128£147n/a
31/03/22£252£95£157n/a
31/03/21£321£82£238n/a
31/03/20£69£50£19n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.swindonfoodcollective.org

admin@swindonfoodcollective.org

07932108732

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Swindon, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Swindon Food Collective
£500 24/03/2021
Matched fund from personal donation by MB.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Swindon Food Collective
£5,000 06/05/2020
Swindon Food Collective runs a food bank in Swindon. Funding will help meet staff costs.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Swindon Food Collective
£5,000 05/05/2020
To meet increased costs associated with meeting increased need for food since the start of the crisis
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Swindon Food Collective
£5,000 25/10/2018
Swindon Food Collective is a newly established organisation setup to run a food bank in Swindon. Funding will help meet staff and warehouse costs.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-65
  • ANNE-MARIE LONG Appointed: 2024
  • CLAIRE AKRAM Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Hr Director
  • DEBORAH JANE EDWARDS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • MICHAEL RICHARD DAVIES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director
  • SALLY AUSTEN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • SANDRA BRADLEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/11/2018, number: 1180603
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/08/2018, number: 11503403
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
  • 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
4 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from KINGSHILL TRUST on 10/01/2022
Main office

SWINDON FOOD COLLECTIVE
BENTHAM CLOSE
STONEHILL GREEN
WESTLEA
SWINDON
SN5 7DG

Objectives

The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically restricted to the following:the prevention or relief of poverty and to preserve and protect good health by providing food, non-food and non-alcoholic beverages to those in financial need or poor health in the Swindon and District area of Wiltshire.[Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.]

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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