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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteer base +3
    • Overall weighted support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

    BEES FOR DEVELOPMENT

    Supporting bees and beekeepers in the developing world: to alleviate poverty, develop sustainable livelihoods, and maintain biodiversity. This is a new CIO structure for the charity Bees for Development previously registered as The Troy Trust ( 1078803) where the charity's past accounts and annual reports can be found.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers including the Government recently

    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 ?

    Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
    Deficit    		 Volun-
    teers
    30/04/23£212£57£155n/a
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    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 3 years

    www.beesfordevelopment.org

    info@beesfordevelopment.org

    01600714848

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    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Sierra Leone, Throughout England And Wales, Uganda, Zimbabwe,
    Who it helps
    • 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
    Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Bees for Development
    £15,000 23/09/2022
    Bee The Voice Ghana: Beekeeping to empower vulnerable women
    Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - 29-021 More bees: Supporting agrobiodiversity and livelihoods in Amhara, Ethiopia
    £132,824 01/06/2022
    The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (8)
    Current Trustees appointed

    • CATHERINE MARGARET COOPER Appointed: 2022
    • GLADSTONE SOLOMON Appointed: 2024
    • LOIC FOSSIEZ Appointed: 2024
    • MICHAEL KREFTA Appointed: 2022
    • OLE HERTZ Appointed: 2024
    • PAUL BERNARD SMITH (Chair) Appointed: 2022
    • SUSAN BROWN MED MBA Appointed: 2022
    • SUZANNE SHAW Appointed: 2022
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/03/2022, number: 1198116
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
    • 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
    • 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
    1 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    1 Agincourt Street
    Monmouth
    NP25 3DZ

    Objectives

    THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: (1) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES USING HABITAT RESTORATION AND THE CRAFT OF BEEKEEPING; AND(B) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SCIENCE AND CRAFT OF SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING AND THE ROLE OF BEES IN MAINTAINING BIODIVERSITY.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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