Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +5

BROCKWELL PARK COMMUNITY GREENHOUSES 

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses provides educational and training resource in sustainable horticultureand promotes physical and mental well-being through horticultural activities and engagement with the natural world.In addition the charity promotes wildlife and biodiversity and promotes healthy-eating and local food-growing.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 13 years

http://www.brockwellgreenhouses.org.uk

secretary@brockwellgreenhouses.org.uk

0203 355 0538

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£180£166£14n/an/an/an/an/a450
31/03/22£457£123£334n/an/an/an/an/a1,100
31/03/21£116£139£-23n/an/an/an/an/a1,601
31/03/20£145£142£3n/an/an/an/an/a886
31/03/19£152£103£49n/an/an/an/an/a575
31/03/18£121£89£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£102£74£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£85£82£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£78£73£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£77£62£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£73£34£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 450 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lambeth,

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
City Bridge Trust£25,464
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Co-Operative Group£5,567
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£2,454 21/10/2023
From October 2022 until December 2023 we are running 60 healthy food preparation workshops aimed at children cooking with their carers, and at mothers with children under five.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 04/02/2022
The Barn and Learning Garden
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£3,113 23/10/2021
Over the course of the year, we will put on free weekly therapeutic gardening, art and cooking sessions at our community gardens for local people to improve their mental and physical wellbeing.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£25,464 19/06/2020
£25,464 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£25,000 27/02/2019
12
over one year as continuation funding towards salaries at a community garden and food-growing charity in Lambeth
Greater London Authority - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£10,297 31/01/2018
Greenhouse Renovate
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£60,000 07/03/2016
24
Towards salary costs to support the development of the site and environmental learning experiences for the benefit of the local community.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£75,000 20/03/2015
36
over three years as continuation funding towards salaries at this community gardening and food-growing project in Lambeth, South London
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
£53,751 16/10/2012
Towards the salary of the project director to further the organisation's work on involving people in the community who have limited or no access to their own green space in Lambeth in which to grow ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-70
  • VERENA KOTONSKI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Conservator (Head Of Organic Conservation)
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/02/2011, number: 1140590
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/04/2010, number: 07217692
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
  • 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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

Brockwell Hall
Brockwell Park
63 Brockwell Park Gardens
LONDON
SE24 9BN

Objectives

2.1 TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF, AND PERSONS EMPLOYED IN OR VISITING THE BOROUGHS OF LAMBETH AND SOUTHWARK (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE ¶BENEFICIARIES÷) AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF (HEREINAFTER CALLED ¶THE AREA OF BENEFIT÷) WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND/OR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID IN HABITANTS, AND PARTICULARLY OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.2.2 TO PROVIDE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION IN SUSTAINABLE HORTICULTURE, LOCAL FOOD GROWING, GREENER COMMUNITIES, AND OTHER SUBJECTS AS MAY BE OF BENEFIT TO SAID COMMUNITIES.2.3 TO PROMOTE THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEING OF USERS, VISITORS AND VOLUNTEERS OF BROCKWELL PARK COMMUNITY GREENHOUSES.2.4 TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE BIODIVERSITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT,

Defined Area of Benefit:

LAMBETH AND SOUTHWARK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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