Finance Score: 9
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 14
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 25 ?

STRIPEY STORK 

Stripey Stork collect new and pre-loved items for babies and children and distribute them to families in need in East Surrey and surrounding areas. We do not take direct referrals and instead work with local health professionals to get the items to where they are needed most.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
Established: 9 years

http://www.stripeystork.org.uk

info@stripeystork.org.uk

01737423771

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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
31/08/22£1,154£1,246£-91£59£176£1501.413380
31/08/21£998£958£40£39£267£2062.69368
31/08/20£775£688£87£40£227£1612.87270
31/08/19£176£148£28n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/08/18£148£95£53£0£0£0n/a045
31/08/17£44£43£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£60£29£31£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 86%
Reserves/Spending: 1.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 14
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 13 employees
  • 380 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£518,077
Community Foundation for Surrey£72,711
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Crowdfunder£12,123
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation for Surrey - Thriving in Winter
£10,036 08/01/2024
4.4193548387097
Funding for a Baby/Childrens Bank that supports families experiencing poverty across Surrey with essential items. This Grant will help with the additional core costs incurred over the winter months.
National Lottery Community Fund - Spreading our Wings
£499,808 26/05/2023
Funding will be used to continue and expand a baby bank service for families experiencing hardship across Surrey providing free essential items including clothes toiletries school supplies and ....more
Joseph Levy Foundation - Unrestricted funding
£7,500 13/01/2023
To support the organization's work to support new parents on low incomes
Community Foundation for Surrey - Spreading Our Wings Phase 1
£21,550 07/12/2022
Funding towards the expansion of services to make them accessible to every family across Surrey that needs them.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Stripey Stork – thriving in Winter 2022
£10,000 06/12/2022
Funding towards two part-time Volunteer Co-Ordinators for a baby bank and a portable heater for their warehouse.
National Lottery Community Fund - Santa Stork 2022
£9,929 07/10/2022
The funding will be used to support the groups delivery of their annual campaign to provide presents for children at Christmas. The project aims to reach families in need of support improving mental ....more
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£12,123 23/04/2022
Covid response
Community Foundation for Surrey - Funding for a new Operations Manager to significantly enhance the services of a charity addressing family poverty across East Surrey
£15,613 28/07/2021
24
Funding for a new Operations Manager to significantly enhance the services of a charity addressing family poverty across East Surrey
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£15,000 01/05/2020
Growing the Nest
Community Foundation for Surrey - Covid 19 Response - Families with Young Children
£5,000 17/04/2020
Funding toward emergency baby supplies for a charity, based in Reigate and Banstead, that offers support for families in poverty, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Stripey Stork
£9,086 15/11/2019
We want to buy high-quality mattresses for the secondhand cots, cot-beds and Moses baskets we supply to vulnerable families.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Wind Beneath the Stork's Wings
£8,340 04/11/2019
12
The Wind Beneath the Stork's Wings
Community Foundation for Surrey - Getting ready for 3000 in 2020
£10,512 02/07/2019
11
Rent and salary for a Referal Coordinator for a charity which collects new and pre-loved items for babies and children (equipment, clothes, furniture and toys) and distributes them to families in ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£2,500 20/06/2018
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Community Foundation for Surrey - Core Funding
£4,597 09/03/2018
12
Core costs to support the continuation of Stripey Stork's services.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Organisation General Manager staffing costs
£13,000 15/12/2017
12
General Manager salary costs for an organisation which provides items for babies and children in need.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Securing the Nest - CFS request
£10,000 19/07/2016
23
Towards rental costs and part-time staff (Communications Officer and Referrals Co-ordinator).
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/05/2015, number: 1161613
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Stripey Stork
51a Albert Road North
REIGATE
RH2 9EL

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN LOCAL UK COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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