Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

FOOD BEHIND BARS

The organisation offers prisons in the UK with training and support to encourage improvement in the nutritional value, variety, and quality of the food served inside prisons. This includes menu consultation and development, staff training,cooking support and healthy eating initiatives. It also offers education on nutrition and healthy eating habits, cooking skills, growing and ingredients.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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
05/04/23£58£78£-20n/a
05/04/22£83£58£24n/a
05/04/21£19£2£17n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

www.foodbehindbars.co.uk

lucy@foodbehindbars.co.uk

07508288149

Charity Commission for England and WalesInstagram
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - HMP Food
£15,075 18/01/2021
Food Behind Bars are a UK-based charity dedicated to transforming the food served in British prisons. This grant supports Food Behind Bars in developing HMP Food, a programme that works collaboratively across the kitchen, grounds and wings of a ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • IQBAL WAHHAB OBE Appointed: 2022
  • JOSIE BEVAN Appointed: 2020
  • KATE EVES Appointed: 2023
  • LEON AARTS Appointed: 2023
  • MEHRUNIKA MALIK-FLYNN Appointed: 2020
  • SUAIMHNEAS NAOMI BURKE-SHYNE (Chair) Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/07/2020, number: 1190462
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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

74 Brightwell Avenue
WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA
Essex
SS0 9EF

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,1.THE PROMOTION OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, PARTICULARLY, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF PRISONERS IN UK PRISONS, THROUGH PROVIDING PROGRAMMES TO ENHANCE NUTRITION IN PRISONS AND PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING2.THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO ENABLE PRISONERS, EX-OFFENDERS AND PEOPLE WHO WORK IN PRISONS, TO LEARN ABOUT HEALTHY EATING AND GOOD NUTRITION, AND TO DEVELOP SKILLS WHICH WILL PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING WHILST IN PRISON AND FOR THEIR FUTURE LIVES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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