Overall GiG Score: 18 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

AID BOX COMMUNITY 

To provide Support, Supplies, and Sanctuary to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Bristol and other areas of the United Kingdom by providing free and essential living items and a safe welcome space and signposting to our partner services for practical help in Housing, Legal Advice and Medical Help.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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: 7 years

www.aidboxcommunity.co.uk

Imogen@aidboxcommunity.co.uk

0117 336 8441

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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£388£295£93n/an/an/an/an/a272
31/03/22£331£209£123n/an/an/an/an/a140
31/03/21£238£198£40n/an/an/an/an/a48
31/03/20£146£126£20n/an/an/an/an/a48
31/03/19£135£117£18n/an/an/an/an/a90
31/03/18£114£82£32£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 272 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,

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
Quartet Community Foundation£38,000
AB Charitable Trust£35,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
DCMS£30,000
CAF£4,886
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Aid Box Community
£10,000 04/01/2023
Running costs of the Hub project that provides Ukrainian refugees with essential living items, welfare support, signposting, and a welcoming community.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Aid Box Community
£3,000 09/12/2022
Towards running costs of the Hub project to provide refugees and asylum seekers with essential living items, welfare support, signposting and a welcoming community.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Aid Box Community
£20,000 20/01/2022
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Aid Box Community provides a Welcome Hub and free shop in Bristol for refugees and people seeking asylum to provide displaced people with a safe haven, quality ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 12/11/2021
Aid Box Community - Providing Supplies, Support and Sanctuary to Refugees in Bristol
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Aid Box Community
£10,000 27/07/2021
5
Including service users in delivering services and developing communications. To include service users working alongside volunteers, and towards producing a short film about the organisation and the ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Aid Box Community
£15,000 21/01/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Aid Box Community provides support, supplies and sanctuary to vulnerable refugees and people seeking asylum in Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Aid Box Community
£10,000 20/10/2020
To enable two new projects to alleviate isolation, loneliness and hardship, and to finance a new staff position to maximise our fund-raising capacity.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£30,000 29/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/06/2020
Aid Box Community - Providing Help and Hope to Refugees in Bristol
CAF - Grant to Aid Box Community
£4,886 07/05/2020
3
Grant to Aid Box Community to support the organisation through COVID19
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Aid Box Community
£5,000 23/03/2020
12
To purchase non perishable food and essential living and baby items for distribution to self isolating destitute refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Connecting with Refugees and Asylum Seekers
£4,000 10/01/2019
11
An additional weekly support session for refugee and asylum seeker women and for training volunteers.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Community Hub
£9,960 17/01/2018
12
The funding will be used to provide a support service for refugees and asylum seekers, supporting them with essentials such as clothes, in order to improve their quality of life.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/04/2017, number: 1172697
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
  • 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
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

Aid Box Community
174 Cheltenham Road
BRISTOL
BS6 5RE

Objectives

The Relief of Poverty and Financial hardship of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom for the public benefit by providing free and essential living Items. Promoting the integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers through the signposting of partner services for practical help in Housing, Legal Advice and Medical Help.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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