Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 3

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 1

FRANCHE COMMUNITY CHURCH

Franche Community Church is about building relationships which are accepting and caring, impacting and meeting needs in our community with the love of God, through pastoral ministry and practical actions. We have been operating an independent food bank from the church plus bread distribution by recommendation only, to the many needy people including via schools in the area.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely male

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 ?

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
31/12/23		£142	£110	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/12/22		£108	£102	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/12/21		£78	£76	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/12/20		£75	£53	£22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	45
31/12/19		£42	£32	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	32
31/12/18		£38	£37	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/17		£40	£45	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£51	£40	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£44	£44	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£55	£45	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£49	£54	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12		£23	£23	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£22	£23	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10	*	£21	£21	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£21	£22	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£18	£21	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07	*	£14	£19	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£10	£9	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£12	£10	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£13	£14	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 35 years

www.franchecommunitychurch.co.uk

franchecommunitychurch@gmail.com

01562631234

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Christian congregations

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Worcestershire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
18 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

National Lottery Community Fund	£29,738
DCMS	£9,084
Co-Operative Group	£2,086

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Franche Community Church and The Wyre Forest Food Bank
£2,086	21/10/2023	Supporting our food bank means we can all make a difference together. We deliver food to 250 families per month across the Wyre Forest, and donations help us buy food to distribute.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wyre Forest Food Bank
£10,000	16/09/2022	The funding will be used to pay the staffing costs for a Food Bank Manager. The project aims to enable the organisation to keep providing this essential service within the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wyre Forest Food Bank
£10,000	05/03/2021 11	The funding will be used to expand and improve the church's food bank. The project aims to support members of the local community who are on low incomes and in crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,084	23/07/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
National Lottery Community Fund - Food Bank
£9,738	12/09/2019 12	The funding will be used to provide equipment for the foodbank, so it can continue to offer its service for local disadvantaged people. The project aims to provide support and increase wellbeing.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

JOHN BALCON Appointed: 2020

PAUL GUILLE (Chair) Appointed: 2016

RICHARD HAGUE Appointed: 2019

SAMUEL GUILLE Appointed: 2016

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/02/1989, number: 701151

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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; AR10: 141 days late, AR07: 43 days late,

Main office

FRANCHE COMMUNITY CHURCH
CHESTNUT GROVE
KIDDERMINSTER
DY11 5QA

Objectives

The Church’s objects (the Objects”) shall be:i. To advance the Christian Faith, in accordance with the doctrinal basis set outin the Church’s statement of faith, in Kidderminster, the surroundingdistricts and such other parts of the United Kingdom and the world, in suchways as the Trustees may from time to time decide.ii. To prevent or relieve poverty by providing grants, items, and servicesto individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations, in the areas ofoperations as above, in such ways as the Trustees may from time to timedecide.iii. To advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of socialwelfare for recreation and leisure time occupation, with the objective ofimproving the conditions of life in the areas of operations, as above, in suchways as the Trustees may from time to time decide.iv. To encourage and facilitate the above and other related activities bythe provision and maintenance of buildings, facilities, and land, in such waysas the Trustees may from time to time decide.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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