Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

    FED UP COMMUNITY CAFE 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
    Total income £26,001 £58,083 £79,031 £127,541
    Total spending £364 £6,402 £116,043 £95,008
    Surplus/deficit £25,637 £51,681 -£37,012 £32,533
    Established: 5 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Community services
    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: Dumfries And Galloway
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People

    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
    Foundation Scotland£106,578
    National Lottery Community Fund£57,886
    The Clothworkers Foundation£6,400
    Corra Foundation£3,600
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Fed Up Community Cafe
    £6,400 15/11/2023
    Refurbishment of a kitchen for a charity which works with vulnerable people in Dumfries and Galloway
    Foundation Scotland - Fed Up Cafe - Moving Forward
    £66,485 22/08/2023
    To contribute to core staff and training costs, over three years, which will enable the Café to continue to offer a valuable service in the community and offer stability while it develops its ....more
    Foundation Scotland - Project Continuation
    £5,000 06/07/2023
    To fund contribution towards staff salaries
    National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling Food Poverty Social Isolation and Loneliness
    £57,886 02/11/2022
    This group will use the funding to continue to provide cooked breakfast and lunches five days a week from its café in the centre of Stranraer. It will support people experiencing food poverty and ....more
    Foundation Scotland - Fed Up Cafe Volunteer Recruitment and Training
    £17,274 17/08/2022
    To cover the cost of running a volunteer and recruitment training project for the Fed Up Cafe which works in food poverty and isolation in Stranraer
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fed Up Community Cafe
    £12,819 08/09/2021
    To employ a second project worker for the kitchen.
    Corra Foundation - HDG-20/5432
    £3,600 10/12/2020
    unrestricted funds.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fed Up Community Cafe
    £5,000 19/06/2020
    To contribute towards salaries, securing a vehicle, training and other ongoing costs relating to covid19 and the running of the group.
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    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 17/07/2019, number: SC049452
    Filing Record
    3 returns made; AR20: 248 days late,
    Main office

    12 Bridge Street, Stranraer, DG9 7HY

    Objectives

    The Organisation has been formed to benefit the community of Wigtownshire (the 'Community'), with the following purposes (the 'Purposes'): The prevention or relief of poverty, and we will achieve this by. a) the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. b) promoting and encouraging the training and education of people so that they may develop skills to help the aforementioned persons and c) encouraging such persons to involve themselves in all aspects of society and, in particular, in those decisions affecting themselves their families and their carers, through co-operation with the authorities and other agencies.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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