Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 3

Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 1

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

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
05/04/23	£57,510	£77,683	£-20,173	5
05/04/22	£82,637	£58,268	£24,369	1
05/04/21	£19,062	£2,324	£16,738	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

www.foodbehindbars.co.uk

lucy@foodbehindbars.co.uk

07508288149

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Education support services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 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.

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 ....more 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 prison to improve the food served, and to enhance residents’ wellbeing and mental health.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

MEHRUNIKA MALIK-FLYNN Appointed: 2020

IQBAL WAHHAB OBE Appointed: 2022

JOSIE BEVAN Appointed: 2020

LEON AARTS Appointed: 2023

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.

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