Overall GiG Score: -1 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +3

    KIRKCALDY FOODBANK 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
    • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
    Established: 10 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
    Charitable activities £1,430,653 £310,472 £12,888
    Donations & Legacies £32,837,870 £14,372,938
    Other Income
    Investment Income
    Total income £67,834 £121,701 £34,268,523 £14,978,070 £276,174
    Charitable activities spending £12,517,782 £26,250
    Fundraising costs 0% 81%
    Other spending £1,733,685 £19,763,269
    Total spending £44,383 £120,944 £14,251,467 £19,848,399 £224,532
    Surplus/deficit £23,451 £757 £20,017,056 -£4,870,329 £51,642
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Fife
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    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
    Scottish Government£24,900
    Co-Operative Group£3,350
    Foundation Scotland£75
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Kirkcaldy Foodbank
    £75 23/01/2023
    Donation from Ken and Roberta Cameron
    Scottish Government - Kirkcaldy Foodbank
    £24,900 18/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Kirkcaldy Foodbank
    £3,350 15/11/2019
    We want to provide food parcels to people in crisis or food poverty so that no-one in Kirkcaldy goes hungry.
    Robertson Trust - Running Costs
    £2,500 27/08/2018
    Running Costs

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 25/11/2013, number: SC044446
    Filing Record
    4 returns made; AR18: 62 days late,
    Main office

    Kirkcaldy Foodbank, Viewforth Church Hall, Viewforth Terrace, Kirkcaldy, Fife, KY1 3BW

    Objectives

    The purposes of Kirkcaldy Foodbank's establishment and operations are the prevention and relief of food poverty in the Kirkcaldy area, the advancement of citizenship/community development and the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage in ways including:- 4.1. the provision of food to those identified as being in need of the services of the Foodbank. - 4.2 working with other local and national organisations to ensure those in food poverty and other disadvantaged people have access to the appropriate information to enable them to explore ways to make improvements to their life conditions and alleviate the hardship they are suffering or prevent any future hardship. and 4.3 working with other agencies to ensure those in food poverty and other disadvantaged people, armed with the appropriate information, have guidance and support to allow them to be proactive in improving their life conditions and alleviate the hardship they are suffering or prevent any future hardship

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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