Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 13
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 30 ?

INHOPE (BRISTOL) LIMITED 

inHope provides food, shelter and hope to those most in need, motivated by the Christian faith. Seeking to accept whoever comes to us and through meeting practical needs, we build trusting relationships though The Wild Goose, Spring of Hope, Life Recovery our Trussell Trust Foodbanks and through partnership working locally and nationally. Over time we see people move-on in their lives.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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: 36 years

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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£1,576£1,648£-72£144£1,244£9006.526331
31/03/22£1,463£1,243£220£150£1,317£9799.423327
31/03/21£1,437£1,261£176£127£1,097£7877.521363
31/03/20£1,178£1,053£125£118£921£6637.621650
31/03/19£998£946£52£77£796£6938.819600
31/03/18£898£871£26£80£744£7029.7190
31/03/17£851£790£60£77£717£70710.7160
31/03/16£533£512£21£0£644£2846.7150
31/03/15£495£516£-20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£452£392£60£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£316£326£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£328£255£73£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£439£217£222£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£393£173£219£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£156£143£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£128£119£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£141£120£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£116£121£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£117£114£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£98£91£7£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 9.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 72%
Reserves/Spending: 6.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 7.5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 26 employees
  • 331 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 Trussell Trust£503,713
Quartet Community Foundation£82,332
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£39,463
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£250 08/02/2023
As directed by the donor towards South & East Bristol Foodbank.
Quartet Community Foundation - Wild Goose
£1,000 05/12/2022
As directed by the donor towards matched funding for inHope 'Big Give appeal 2022. Due diligence checked.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to SE Bristol Foodbank
£5,000 12/10/2022
Emergency grant
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£825 07/06/2022
As directed by the donor towards debt advice.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£8,200 17/03/2022
11
To implement a new volunteer management database, building inHope’s capacity to recruit, induct and manage the large numbers of volunteers needed to deliver its services.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to SE Bristol Foodbank
£157,821 15/03/2022
2 Empowerment and Support Worker posts at 32 hpw
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 11/03/2022
inHope Core Funding
Quartet Community Foundation - Wild Goose
£500 05/01/2022
As directed by the donor towards matched funding for Wild Goose's Big Give appeal 2021.
Quartet Community Foundation - Wild Goose
£500 09/12/2021
As directed by the donor towards matched funding for Wild Goose's Big Give appeal 2021.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£3,000 19/11/2021
2
Towards three months of funding for a support worker who will deliver advice and signposting for South & East Bristol Foodbank clients.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to SE Bristol Foodbank
£202,049 05/10/2021
CA worker
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£1,022 18/06/2021
As directed by the donor towards debt advice.
Quartet Community Foundation - Life Recovery Project
£19,785 17/02/2021
23
Toward the cost of turning the group's existing Life Recovery Programme into a social enterprise that will train other organisations to deliver the programme, which supports people in recovery from ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - East Bristol Foodbank
£5,000 04/12/2020
Towards salary costs for the East Bristol Foodbank which enables people experiencing food poverty to access nutritious food and support in healthy eating.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 27/11/2020
Crisis Centre Ministries Core Funding
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£10,000 29/07/2020
Towards core costs enabling inHope to transition its services following the Coronavirus lockdown to provide relevant and appropriate support to homeless and vulnerable people in Bristol.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000 29/07/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
The Trussell Trust - Grant to East Bristol Foodbank
£23,867 22/07/2020
Income maximisation - advice worker
The Trussell Trust - Grant to East Bristol Foodbank
£3,648 16/07/2020
CV emergency costs: warehouse costs, PPE, packaging
CAF - Grant to inHope
£10,000 09/06/2020
3
Grant to inHope to support the organisation through COVID19
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£39,463 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
The Trussell Trust - Grant to East Bristol Foodbank
£3,136 29/04/2020
CV emergency costs: salary costs, IT
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£4,750 09/04/2020
Towards co-ordination and delivery of food and other essential items to people in East Bristol/Fishponds/Kingsdown who are unable to access these during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Crisis UK - Grant to In Hope
£4,480 09/04/2020
Food and staff at café still operating for rough sleepers
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to inHope
£2,500 06/04/2020
As requested by the donor towards the Spring of Hope Ladies' Night Shelter
Quartet Community Foundation - Spring of Hope Women's Emergency Nightshelter - Additional Support Worker
£25,000 04/07/2019
11
Towards salary costs for an additional support worker for the Spring of Hope women-only night shelter.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to East Bristol Foodbank
£54,095 25/06/2019
24
Citizens Advice worker
The Trussell Trust - Grant to SE Bristol Foodbank
£54,095 25/06/2019
Citizens Advice worker
Quartet Community Foundation - Wild Goose Drop-in Centre
£5,000 08/02/2019
11
Towards the running costs of the Wild Goose cafe, providing hot meals to people who are rough sleeping or living in poverty.
Quartet Community Foundation - Building works
£2,569 11/01/2019
Towards building works that will help turn the downstairs space at Spring of Hope hostel into a functioning drop-in cafe.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to East Bristol Foodbank
£4,071 31/10/2018
12
New food bank warehouse facility
The Trussell Trust - Grant to SE Bristol Foodbank
£4,071 31/10/2018
Warehouse equipment
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/09/2018
Help for vulnerable & homeless people
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 03/05/2017
Core funding for four vital community projects.
Quartet Community Foundation - East Bristol Foodbank/ Energy Bank
£10,000 02/03/2017
17
To directly fund the cost of management of the Energy Bank project and mentoring of the volunteer Energy Bank workers for the benefit of clients that use the foodbank.
Quartet Community Foundation - Help for vulnerable and homeless people
£5,000 15/09/2016
12
Toward the running costs of the Wild Goose drop-in centre project that provides support for homeless individuals.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Crisis Centre Limited
£5,990 16/12/2015
providing support to people in crisis through its drop-in, night shelter and life skills training. The grant will fund a central database to improve communications with supporters, volunteer ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-72
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/02/1988, number: 298528
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/01/1988, number: 02214814
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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR10: 16 days late, AR09: 390 days late, AR06: 196 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE SANCTUARY CHARITABLE TRUST on 16/02/2023
Main office

inHope.
Carpenter House
32 Stapleton Road
Bristol
BS5 0QY

Objectives

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (OBJECTS) ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS OF INDIVIDUALS IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY AND / OR HOMELESS AND / OR IN DISTRESS, BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) PROVIDING:3.1.1 FOOD;3.1.2 SUPPORT SERVICES TO FACILITATE WELL-BEING AND SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS FOR SPECIALIST SUPPORT;3.1.3 (OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF OR SIGNPOSTING TO) FINANCIAL, EMPLOYABILITY AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO SELF-MANAGE;3.1.4 (OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF OR SIGNPOSTING TO) SHELTER, ACCOMMODATION OR HOUSING; FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN THESE OBJECTS, SELF-MANAGE MEANS HELPING BENEFICIARIES TO RECOGNISE AND ADDRESS AN ISSUE (OR ISSUES) SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTING THEIR LIVES, TO IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE RESOURCES AND DETERMINE HOW TO RESPOND TO AND OR RESOLVE SUCH ISSUES IN AN APPROPRIATE AND BENEFICIAL WAY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED (IN PRACTICE BRISTOL)

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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