Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

ST WERBURGHS CITY FARM 

We provide educational and recreational services including:-- a working livestock farm, gardens, playground, open daily 360 days a year with free entry- animal husbandry training- horticultural training for adults with learning difficulties- environmental youth work- community events- volunteer opportunities- community building hire- cafe
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 37 years

www.swcityfarm.co.uk

office@swcityfarm.co.uk

01179428241

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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£577£655£-78£10£518£4628.515106
31/03/22£519£665£-146£4£599£5329.617150
31/03/21£616£609£7£6£749£68613.516150
31/03/20£603£700£-97£43£744£69411.916150
31/03/19£752£568£184£37£837£71815.216150
31/03/18£568£595£-27£30£652£60212.1150
31/03/17£587£495£92£33£680£62015110
31/03/16£718£353£365£27£586£56219.1100
31/03/15£334£314£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£326£306£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£262£252£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£315£267£49£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£242£273£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£221£214£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£236£230£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£202£205£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£205£162£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£163£180£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£187£190£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£162£170£-8£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 89%
Reserves/Spending: 8.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Recreation
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 15 employees
  • 106 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
Henry Smith Charity£203,300
BBC Children in Need£90,000
Quartet Community Foundation£79,898
Power to Change£74,749
Co-Op Foundation£46,808
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Crowdfunder£8,344
Co-Operative Group£7,944
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£90,000 06/10/2023
This project will provide outdoor activities for children and young people from underrepresented low income families. The activities will help them to improve their confidence, mental health and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£203,300 21/09/2023
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Volunteering, Skills and Wellbeing programme', providing employability support for people experiencing mental health challenges across Bristol, West England.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£9,000 11/05/2023
Funding staff time to turn the Farm's vision into a strategy and resilient business model, based on reflection, community and beneficiary co-design and outreach to under-represented communities.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£2,610 02/05/2023
Rewild Child half term provision will equip and empower 36 disadvantaged and marginalised children through therapeutic, seasonal and land-based activities and food provision.
National Lottery Community Fund - Conservation and Conversation
£10,000 03/02/2023
The funding will be used to fund staff salaries and overheads to run several sessions for people suffering with mental health issues. The project aims to teach new skills and build participants' ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£5,000 01/02/2023
For the Rewild Child Project that equips and empowers 200 disadvantaged and marginalised children and young people through therapeutic, seasonal and land-based activities.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£4,991 20/12/2022
To extend the provision of weekly wellbeing activities, including a hot meal, and increase opening hours of community facilities to enable people to get a warm drink and recharge devices.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£3,000 14/12/2022
To continue the group's Supported Farming and Green care unit which supports the health and well-being of people with learning difficulties.
Power to Change - St Werburghs City Farm (RCF)
£10,000 12/12/2022
Grant to St Werburghs City Farm (RCF)
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£960 01/12/2022
Toward the costs of continuing to host a weekly Cooking and Well-being activity for Asylum Seekers and Refugees run in conjunction with Bristol Mind.
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£8,344 14/11/2022
Covid response
Power to Change - Crowdmatch - St Werburghs City Farm: Supporting Your Community
£10,000 26/09/2022
Grant to Crowdmatch - St Werburghs City Farm: Supporting Your Community
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£4,963 17/08/2022
To involve the local community in creating a bog-garden, dipping-pond and wildlife garden that will improve bio-diversity including newts and dragonflies.
Power to Change - St Werburghs City Farm (PU)
£8,000 01/03/2022
Grant to St Werburghs City Farm (PU)
Power to Change - St Werburghs City Farm (PU)
£8,000 01/03/2022
Grant to St Werburghs City Farm (PU)
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£5,000 11/11/2021
11
Towards a Child and Youth Manager for delivering youth activities as part of a Rewild Child Project that works with disadvantaged and marginalised children and young people through therapeutic, ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Planting Connections
£38,665 21/06/2021
23
Toward the Planting Connections Project which will develop and embed lasting partnerships to co-design and produce outdoor-focused health and wellbeing activities for adults currently ....more
Power to Change - Renewal - St Werburghs City Farm
£19,999 18/12/2020
Grant to Renewal - St Werburghs City Farm
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£7,000 25/06/2020
construction of outdoor classrooms for a charity that works with disadvantaged children and young people in Bristol
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£5,000 11/06/2020
To support and engage 90 disadvantaged children and young people in site-based, socially distanced activities that reconnect them to nature, land and each other.
CAF - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£2,421 29/04/2020
Grant to St Werburghs City Farm to support the organisation through COVID19
Quartet Community Foundation - Friendship Hafla 2020
£709 16/12/2019
11
Toward the cost of a Friendship Halfa Middle-Eastern music and dance event that aims to welcome new refugee women to the Bristol area.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£7,944 15/11/2019
We want funding for materials, tools and volunteer expenses to run gardening sessions for disadvantaged adults.
Power to Change - St Werburghs City Farm
£8,000 23/10/2019
5
Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
Co-Op Foundation - STC Enhance
£46,808 06/09/2019
Create an online horticultural training programme that can be sold to generate income. Funding will also enable intensive engagement activities to increase inclusion and diversity at the farm.
Power to Change - St Werburghs City Farm
£10,750 11/07/2019
Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Youth strand
£36,985 01/04/2019
This volunteering and enterprise-focused outdoor programme will help local young people with mental health difficulties come up with fun business ideas together, building connections and confidence.
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Youth strand
£36,985 01/01/2019
This volunteering and enterprise-focused outdoor programme will help local young people with mental health difficulties come up with fun business ideas together, building connections and confidence.
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£9,990 20/12/2018
Trialling new activities at their city farm to encourage more young people to access the space
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Community Spaces
£9,900 20/12/2018
Trialling new activities at their city farm to encourage more young people to access the space
Co-Op Foundation - St Werburgh’s City Farm - Building Connections Youth Strand Project
£73,970 06/12/2018
This volunteering and enterprise-focused outdoor programme will help local young people with mental health difficulties come up with fun business ideas together, building connections and confidence.
Quartet Community Foundation - Helping Hands
£5,000 28/11/2018
11
Towards the Helping Hands project, offering volunteering opportunities for young people at the Farm during school holidays.
Power to Change - St Werburghs City Farm
£104,807 17/09/2018
36
Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 18/06/2018
St Werburghs City Farm
Co-Operative Group - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£5,590 29/11/2017
We want to work with disengaged young people to build a wheelchair-friendly compost toilet and improve accessibility to Boiling Wells.
Quartet Community Foundation - Work2Learn Project
£3,668 27/11/2017
12
To offer Work2Learn Placements to young people struggling in mainstream education.
Quartet Community Foundation - SWCF Enterprise Project
£3,625 14/03/2017
12
To develop an enterprise project for 13-18 year olds, supporting them to design, develop and manage social enterprise activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Propagation Place: Phase 2
£9,809 08/03/2017
12
This group will use the funding to develop an accessible community garden space where older people and people with limited mobility, learning difficulties or mental health problems can take part in ....more
Masonic Trust - Urban Farmers Project
£38,125 19/10/2016
Urban Farmers project which will target disadvantaged and disengaged young people aged 14-19 in activities which support greater health, wellbeing and personal development, equip them with ....more
OVO Foundation - OVO Gives Back - 2016-2017
£20,000 09/08/2016
This grant was used to engage and inspire disadvantaged children and young people with outdoor activities.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grow Space
£4,830 28/04/2016
12
For the GROW SPACE project transforming the central area of the allotment yard into an accessible, inspiring and welcoming community growing facility.
National Lottery Community Fund - Enclude: Engaging, Enabling and Empowering people through volunteering
£285,539 29/07/2015
48
The project aims to help people of all ages with learning difficulties, disabilities or mental health problems to lead more independent lives through a range of engaging activities and volunteering ....more
LandAid Charitable Trust - Building costs for construction of new education centre
£102,231 09/12/2014
New build education and training centre at a city farm in Bristol to extend services to support young people with 3 fit-for-purpose classrooms, a training kitchen, a covered outdoor teaching space ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - T in the woods:Training People-Transforming Spaces-Thriving Wildlife:T
£10,000 03/09/2014
12
Not Available
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Werburghs City Farm
£75,000 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Youth Development Worker at a city farm in a deprived area of Bristol
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 26-67
  • TESNI CLARE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Communications Lead
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/06/1987, number: 297091
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/03/1987, number: 02114442
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • Investment
  • 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; all on time
Main office

ST. WERBURGHS CITY FARM
WATERCRESS ROAD
BRISTOL
BS2 9YJ

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF ST WERBURGHS AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF(HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULARLY YOUNG MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATLARGE, IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, HOME CRAFTS, COUNTRY LIFE, AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND IN THEPRINCIPLES OF SELF-DISCIPLINE AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP, THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES THAT THEYDEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS ANDMEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITIONS IN LIFE ARE IMPROVED.2) TO PROMOTE AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT, HUMANITY AND MORALITY BY EDUCATINGTHEM IN CARE AND CONSIDERATION FOR ALL ANIMALS AND FOR THESE PURPOSES TO CARE FOR AN EXHIBITANIMALS IN COMMON AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC USE SO THAT THE PUBLIC AND PARTICULARLY THE YOUNGERMEMBERS THEREOF, WILL LEARN A GREATER AWARENESS OF AN APPRECIATION FOR SUCH ANIMALS.3) TO RELIEVE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED OR DISABLED OR DEPRIVED INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OFBENEFIT BY PROVIDING AS A REMEDIAL RECREATIONAL OR THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY FACILITIES FOR TRAINING ANDTHERAPY IN HORTICULTURE OR RELATED SUBJECTS, SUBJECT WHERE APPROPRIATE TO THE CONSENT OF THEMEDICAL ADVISERS OF SUCH PERSONS.4) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR YOUNG PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE INNEED OF SUCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING, SO AS TO PREPARE THEM FOR ANY TRADE, OCCUPATION OR SERVICEAND THEREBY ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ENABLE THEM TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVELIHOOD.5) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OFPOLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND/OR VOLUNTARYORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIESIN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTOF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY ORDISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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