Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 9

Poor Liquidity: -1

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
All female board: -3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 11

BLOODY GOOD PERIOD

Recognising the trauma and anxiety caused by not having access to essential menstrual products, we work to create a menstrually equitable society by providing asylum seekers, refugees and those in poverty and otherwise displaced people and their dependents with unrestricted access to high quality, free period supplies of their choice, accompanied by menstrual and female health education.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
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 completely female

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end

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Income & Spending ?

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
31/12/22	£724	£685	£39	£139	£154	£104	1.8	6	20
31/12/21	£454	£545	£-91	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/12/20	£480	£452	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 19.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 20.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 67%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 5.5

Asset Split ?

Established: 5 years

https://www.bloodygoodperiod.com/

hello@bloodygoodperiod.com

07927 502 887

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

6 employees
20 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

Trust for London	£80,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£49,600
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation	£27,200
Garfield Weston Foundation	£20,000
AB Charitable Trust	£15,000
The London Community Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bloody Good Period
£2,200	19/10/2022	Towards cost of living crisis
Trust for London - Bloody Good Period
£80,000	09/02/2022	The funding is for a pilot/demonstration project which will delve deeper into the experiences of the women who receive support from Bloody Good Period; whose voices are severely under-represented in ....more The funding is for a pilot/demonstration project which will delve deeper into the experiences of the women who receive support from Bloody Good Period; whose voices are severely under-represented in existing published work in this area. Their voices must be included and acted upon so that subsequent change benefits them.
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bloody Good Period
£25,000	11/11/2021	Towards BGP employers project
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Bloody Good Period
£15,000	22/04/2021	An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Bloody Good Period provides period products to refugees, people seeking asylum and migrants, in addition to advocacy and campaigning around period poverty, and ....more An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Bloody Good Period provides period products to refugees, people seeking asylum and migrants, in addition to advocacy and campaigning around period poverty, and educational workshops.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Bloody Good Period
£10,000	09/02/2021 6	This funding is for costs associated with purchasing and distributing period products to the target beneficiaries (refugees, asylum seekers and people unable to afford period products who are having ....more This funding is for costs associated with purchasing and distributing period products to the target beneficiaries (refugees, asylum seekers and people unable to afford period products who are having to prioritise food for the household over period products)
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	09/10/2020	Bloody Good Period: Operations & Education Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - London Funders Wave 2 Bloody Good Period
£49,600	15/05/2020 6	The funding will be used to support the increased demand in providing menstrual products to asylum seekers refugees and people that cannot afford them. The project distribute pads to over 50 drop-in ....more The funding will be used to support the increased demand in providing menstrual products to asylum seekers refugees and people that cannot afford them. The project distribute pads to over 50 drop-in service centres homeless shelters food banks and community centres across London and the UK.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-60

MELISSA GARDNER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Doctor

RUBY ALICE BAYLEY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Fundraising Policy And Research Manager

SHAKIBA OFTADEH MOGHADAM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Academic

FIONA PEI SHAN YEUNG Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Legal And Finance

SUSAN BARBARA RUBENSTEIN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Management Consultant

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/10/2019, number: 1185849
Registered at Companies House on 01/02/2019, number: 11801410

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

3 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from PERIOD. on 23/07/2021

Main office

167-169 Great Portland Street
5th Floor
London
W1W 5PF

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PERIOD POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND OTHERWISE DISPLACED PEOPLE WHO MENSTRUATE AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING IN THE UK BY PROVIDING MENSTRUAL AND HYGIENE SUPPLIES AND ESSENTIAL MENSTRUAL EDUCATION.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE,PERIOD POVERTY REFERS TO THE INABILITY TO AFFORD OR HAVE ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS.

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