Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 26 ?

VAUXHALL (CITY) FARM LTD 

City farm in central London, established 1976. As a charity we support over 50,000 people each year. Our vision is a city where everyone can access nature to enhance their health, well-being & life chances.
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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 have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 43 years

www.vauxhallcityfarm.org

info@vauxhallcityfarm.org

02075824204

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Financial Data ?

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
31/03/23£799£662£137£37£539£3977.219145
31/03/22£670£591£80£34£402£3206.52239
31/03/21£592£473£120£6£304£2486.3810
31/03/20£508£458£50£53£184£1022.713390
31/03/19£558£652£-93£141£134£108225395
31/03/18£717£811£-94£289£227£1542.3220
31/03/17£719£792£-74£28£305£1101.7170
31/03/16£661£625£37£35£373£2124.1160
31/03/15£678£568£111£50£337£2405.1130
31/03/14£566£472£94£26£226£1513.8120
31/03/13*£465£424£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£436£462£-26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£494£464£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£478£519£-41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£477£434£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£329£288£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£250£287£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£200£243£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£204£234£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£238£236£2£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 74%
Reserves/Spending: 7.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • City Of Westminster, Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea, Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 19 employees
  • 145 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
The Berkeley Foundation£100,679
City Bridge Trust£99,149
Garfield Weston Foundation£95,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£88,000
Greater London Authority£40,000
National Lottery Community Fund£29,739
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£7,040 31/10/2023
Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£10,787 31/07/2023
Unrestricted match funding payment to July 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£12,646 30/04/2023
Unrestricted match funding payment to to April 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Cost of Living Grant
£5,000 26/04/2023
One-off, unrestricted grant
The Berkeley Foundation - One-off grant
£200 20/03/2023
Unrestricted grant - Resilience Fund Panel
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Vauxhall City Farm
£95,000 06/03/2023
£95,000 over two years (£50,000; £45,000) towards Vauxhall City Farm’s core costs enabling it to provide environmental and educational activities for 570 local people each year.
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£3,426 31/01/2023
Unrestricted match funding payment to to January 2023
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Food Growing Garden Project
£9,907 20/01/2023
The funding will be used to offer weekly activities and opportunities to increase people’s knowledge and awareness of the benefit of growing food in a sustainable way. The project aims to bring ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Vauxhall (City) Farm
£8,000 30/11/2022
Grant uplift 'Cost of Living crisis': refurbishment of grounds for a charity supporting disadvantaged minority communities in Vauxhall
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£4,808 31/10/2022
Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2022
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£75,000 02/09/2022
Developing the Farm
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£2,345 31/07/2022
Unrestricted match funding payment to July 2022
The Berkeley Foundation - Match Funding payment
£1,028 30/04/2022
Unrestricted match funding payment to April 2022
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Vauxhall (City) Farm
£80,000 15/03/2022
refurbishment of grounds for a charity supporting disadvantaged minority communities in Vauxhall
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£555 31/01/2022
Unrestricted match funding payment to January 2022
Greater London Authority - Vauxhall City Farm
£40,000 11/12/2021
Vauxhall City Farm Community Garden
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£12,541 31/10/2021
Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2021
The Berkeley Foundation - Covid-19 match funding grant
£206 20/04/2021
Unrestricted donation to a charity match funding the amount raised by Berkeley Group staff
The Berkeley Foundation - Focus group attendance donation
£100 15/03/2021
Unrestricted donation to a charity in thanks for attending a focus group session
The Berkeley Foundation - Emergency Covid-19 grant
£15,000 15/01/2021
Grant to enable the charity to renovate its riding arena in order to restart its Riding for the Disabled programme for children and young people with disabilities
True Colours Trust - Ramp for access to riding arena for disabled children – COVID19 response
£5,000 06/10/2020
Ramp for access to riding arena for disabled children – COVID19 response
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000 21/08/2020
Vauxhall City Farm: A space to connect
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£2,500 08/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Equestrian
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19: Connecting Communities with the Farm
£9,832 22/05/2020
5
The funding will be used to recreate open-farm activities bringing therapeutic learning and well-being benefits to vulnerable adults children and families online.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Vauxhall City Farm
£4,149 15/05/2020
A grant of £4,149 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Walcot Foundation - COVID19 - therapeutic and learning experiences for vulnerable and low income children/young people
£5,000 06/05/2020
12
Funding will allow the farm to create twice-weekly therapeutic and learning experiences for 300 children and volunteers (half of which are from Lambeth) who are from low-income families or have ....more
The Berkeley Foundation - Emergency Covid-19 grant to help mitigate loss of fundraising income
£10,000 28/04/2020
One-off unrestricted, emergency grant to support the Foundation's Designated Charities during the Covid-19 crisis. COVID19 related grant.
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£5,851 22/04/2020
3
Virtual therapeutic and learning experiences (Covid-19)
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Vauxhall City Farm
£10,000 11/12/2019
12
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing the Farm
£10,000 18/07/2019
12
The funding will be used to undertake a feasibility study and carry out formal consultation in developing the plans for further expanding on the available facilities of a city farm for the benefit of ....more
The Berkeley Foundation - Development of fundraising capacity
£15,000 12/07/2019
Capacity building grant supporting development of the Charity's fundraising capacity.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Vauxhall City Farm
£50,000 18/08/2015
12
towards the fit out of a new education building and cafe at this city farm in Vauxhall, South London
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Vauxhall City Farm
£85,000 04/12/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Yard Supervisor at a riding therapy project for disabled and disadvantaged children in the London Borough of Lambeth
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Vauxhall City Farm
£116,400 16/07/2014
36
£116,400 over three years (£38,300; £38,800; £39,300) towards the salary of the Youth & Education Manager and education programme costs.
Sport England - New stable block
£49,882 15/08/2013
Funding under Sport England's Inspired Facilities funding programme for a Capital project titled 'New stable block'. This project lists its main activity as Equestrian. This funding has contributed ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Vauxhall City Farm
£40,000 16/04/2013
24
over two years towards core costs, including work with disadvantaged young people, in South London
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-73
  • GLEN WALKER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Director Of Talent
  • SEAN ELLIS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Business Executive
  • STUART PEEL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Finance Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/01/1981, number: 281512
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/10/1980, number: 01524041
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
  • Internal risk management 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
20 returns made; AR13: 1 days late, AR12: 26 days late, AR11: 8 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

VAUXHALL CITY FARM
165 TYERS STREET
LONDON
SE11 5HS

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS AND PERSONS EMPLOYED AND PERSON EMPLOYED IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT THROUGH EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE BENEFICIARIES IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, HOME-CRAFTS, AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND IN PRINCIPLES OF SELF-DISCIPLINE AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP. (C) TO PROMOTE AMONG THE BENEFICIARIES HUMANITY AND MORALITY BY EDUCATING THEM IN CARE AND CONSIDERATION FOR ALL ANIMALS. (D) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIS. (E) TO RELIEVE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED OR DISABLED OR DEPRIVED BENEFICIARIES BY PROVIDING REMEDIAL RECREATIONAL OR THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PARLIAMENTRY CONSTITUENCY OF LAMBETH VAUXHALL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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