Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 6

BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS

Helping adults with mental health problems through participation in gardening and related craft activities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple 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

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: 10 years

www.bridewellgardens.org

info@bridewellgardens.org

01993259059

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£272	£270	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/22	£242	£239	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/21	£367	£199	£168	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/20	£211	£223	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	31
31/03/19	£183	£191	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
31/03/18	£185	£165	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£160	£163	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£133	£166	£-33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£33	£38	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Oxfordshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
40 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

Oxfordshire Community Foundation	£121,636
Garfield Weston Foundation	£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,650
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust	£1,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - CRM and website development
£39,520	26/05/2022	Improve our ability to communicate with primary external audiences including potential beneficiaries, referrers, supporters, and donors. Making internal operations more efficient, external ....more Improve our ability to communicate with primary external audiences including potential beneficiaries, referrers, supporters, and donors. Making internal operations more efficient, external communications more effective and impactful, and strengthening the quality and integrity of our data and back office operations to future proof key elements of Bridewell's operations.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Bridewell Organic Gardens - 29/10/21
£1,500	10/11/2021	Shade Tunnel Project
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Hard landscaping project
£530	13/05/2021	To purchase materials to replace one large raised bed planting area which is used to grow fruit and veg. The work in building the new bed will led by one of their volunteers and will provide ....more To purchase materials to replace one large raised bed planting area which is used to grow fruit and veg. The work in building the new bed will led by one of their volunteers and will provide invaluable experience for service users in a hard landscaping project and working as a team.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Mental Health Recovery
£9,650	22/05/2020 4	The funding will be used to provide online and phone counselling for people experiencing mental health issues. The project aims to support the community through the Covid-19 pandemic.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - COVID-19 Service Resilience
£10,000	27/04/2020 11	Maintaining a strong connection online and by phone for service users with a trusted team of staff and volunteers.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	27/03/2020	Core Costs
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Bridewell Gardens Building Capacity
£71,586	31/01/2020	At 25, Bridewell has begun a programme of change to ready its staff, volunteers, governance structure, and garden site for the next 25 years. This project will invest in physical and operational ....more At 25, Bridewell has begun a programme of change to ready its staff, volunteers, governance structure, and garden site for the next 25 years. This project will invest in physical and operational infrastructure to improve our long-term impact: - Invest in marketing, communication, volunteer management to raise our profile and engagement with supporters, volunteers, referral agents, and beneficiaries - Invest in our site to make us more efficient by bringing our administrative and therapeutic teams together at the gardens - Core to this programme of change has been the appointment of a new Director and recruitment of new trustees
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Helping people with mental health problems into employment and voluntary work
£4,754	26/11/2018 11	creating an environment where service users are welcomed, interact with others (users, staff and volunteers) and are able to us their time at Bridewell to maximum effect in terms of their recovery ....more creating an environment where service users are welcomed, interact with others (users, staff and volunteers) and are able to us their time at Bridewell to maximum effect in terms of their recovery from mental ill-health.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,000	12/12/2017	Core Costs

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANDREW VARDE Appointed: 2018

DANIE WOODBRIDGE Appointed: 2022

HEIDI MELINDA BLACK Appointed: 2019

RICHARD KHOSLA-STEVENS Appointed: 2015

ROBERT CHAPLIN MB CHB Appointed: 2019

SANDRA CLARKE Appointed: 2019

STEPHEN MARSHALL Appointed: 2021

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/09/2014, number: 1158456

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Investment
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

9 returns made; all on time

Main office

Bridewell Organic Gardens
The Walled Garden
Wilcote
CHIPPING NORTON
OX7 3DT

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM AND LIVING WITH A RANGE OF HEALTH PROBLEMS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEIR NEEDS THROUGH HORTICULTURE AND WORKSHOPS RELATING TO RURAL CRAFTS

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