Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

HUMANS MCR

Humans MCR are committed to the short- and long-term relief of food poverty, with a particular emphasis on breaking the cycle of generational food poverty. We use innovative solutions to ensure that nobody goes hungry in the areas of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • 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
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/24£311£263£48n/a
31/03/23?£267£228£39n/a
28/02/22£148£108£40n/a
28/02/21£92£78£14n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.humansmcr.org

info@humansmcr.org

0161 243 0171

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bury, Manchester City, Salford City,
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£25,000
DCMS£23,742
National Lottery Community Fund£19,619
The Clothworkers Foundation£15,000
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust£12,230
One Manchester£10,320
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Humans MCR
£15,000 13/12/2023
Purchase of one temperature-controlled vans for a charity which works with individuals and families experiencing poverty in Greater Manchester
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 13/10/2023
Core Costs - Breaking the Cycle of Generational Food Poverty
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£25,000 31/07/2023
Funding will allow us to open a second storage and distribution hub, allowing us to double our capacity for support.
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£5,000 14/02/2023
Unrestricted funding to tackle financial hardship
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Grocers on-wheels
£9,864 09/12/2022
The organisation will continue to offer a food grocery service for people within their community alongside their 121 budgeting service access to cooking and budgeting classes and volunteering opportunities to support people in food and fuel poverty.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£750 01/11/2022
Core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Humans MCR (Manchester)
£1,703 22/10/2022
We will fund our community grocers, providing the community with an alternative to regular foodbank use and giving them control of their food shop, with a view to it becoming self-sustainable.
One Manchester - Humans MCR - Covid Support
£5,160 01/10/2022
Small grant given to enable the group to buy ppe that would keep volunteers safe while making food parcel deliveries. - Second grant combined within first grant to support food response.
One Manchester - Humans MCR - Covid Support
£5,160 01/10/2022
Small grant given to enable the group to buy ppe that would keep volunteers safe while making food parcel deliveries. - Second grant combined within first grant to support food response.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 24/06/2022
Core Costs
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Humans MCR
£9,750 26/04/2022
The project is to establish a new Community Grocers On Wheels service, providing clients, using redistributed food, with a weekly shop including fresh produce, meat, dairy and vegetables, delivered to their door for a fraction of supermarket prices. ....more
MACC - Humans MCR
£920 15/12/2021
To help cover the cost of volunteers’ expenses of grassroots organisations in the city of Manchester
The Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Humans MCR
£2,480 15/10/2021
Humans MCR addresses both short and long-term issues around food poverty. Since March 2020, our Foodbank on-wheels has delivered over 65,000 meals to client’s doorsteps. We are now able to provide clients with a full wraparound service including ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Grocers on-wheels
£9,755 30/09/2021
The organisation will increase capacity to enable their community foodbank to offer a service to an extended area with the aim of improving access to support and addressing food poverty.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Humans MCR
£1,000 26/05/2021
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core Costs - Wages and Training Costs
£2,000 19/10/2020
Core costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£23,742 23/07/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Forever Manchester - Coronavirus Care
£5,000 22/05/2020
Emergency food parcels and shopping/medicine collection service
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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

  • ADELE WYLIE Appointed: 2023
  • ASIF KHAN Appointed: 2023
  • CAITLAN MACLEOD Appointed: 2023
  • CLAIRE BARTON (Chair) Appointed: 2023
  • LAURA SULLIVAN Appointed: 2023
  • PAUL PIKE Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 30/04/2020, number: 1189282
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 10/25/2021, current status: Small charity
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

18 Sandown Road
STOCKPORT
Cheshire
SK3 0JF

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE IN THE GREATER MANCHESTER AREA WHO ARE IN NEED ,BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL­ HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT,WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE ON PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THOSE AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS (COVID­19).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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