Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

SOCIAL FARMS AND GARDENS 

Social Farms and Gardens exists to support, represent and promote city farms, care farms, school farms and community managed gardens and allotments across the UK, as a means of developing healthy, safe and cohesive communities and developing the potential of individuals.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
Established: 38 years

www.farmgarden.org.uk

admin@farmgarden.org.uk

01179231800

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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
31/03/22£1,500£1,375£125£15£450£3823.3205
31/03/21£1,815£1,718£97£21£450£3822.7195
31/03/20£899£1,015£-116£17£353£3243.8175
31/03/19£930£938£-8£14£469£3444.4165
31/03/18£1,025£868£157£11£477£2853.91745
31/03/17£635£772£-137£13£320£2694.2140
31/03/16£888£947£-59£2£457£3774.8180
31/03/15£996£968£28£18£516£3984.9200
31/03/14£942£1,006£-64£19£488£4495.4220
31/03/13£990£1,026£-37£19£552£4855.7230
31/03/12£1,487£1,399£88£22£589£2652.3230
31/03/11*£1,254£1,230£24£17£500£1981.9220
31/03/10£1,083£1,048£34£18£477£1681.9160
31/03/09£942£857£85£15£442£1462100
31/03/08£545£598£-54£13£358£1192.4110
31/03/07£763£768£-6£16£411£3144.9120
31/03/06£709£717£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£741£609£131£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£672£544£128£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 31%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 85%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
  • 5 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
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs£498,808
City Bridge Trust£148,600
National Lottery Community Fund£107,674
Esmee Fairbairn£24,550
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Social Farms & Gardens
£250 21/09/2023
A donor directed grant towards the charity's work which includes; guiding, inspiring, advising, showcasing and representing hundreds of groups and organisations right across the UK.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Social Farms and Gardens
£2,550 06/03/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Natural England - ALB-Natural England-Grant: Growing Care Farming Project
£125,998 01/04/2021
Growing care farming is one of three projects within the Children and Nature Programme. This project is looking to support a transformational increase in the scale and scope of care farm services, so ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Resilient Communities
£9,500 13/10/2020
6
The funding will used to provide grassroots support to vulnerable communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to increase peer to peer support through established networks ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Edible Cardiff
£93,886 17/09/2020
36
Social Farms and Gardens will empower and support growers and growing groups across Cardiff. They will offer training support knowledge and a full calendar of events and they will share resources ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Community Growing Guidance and Support
£4,288 07/08/2020
9
This group support community growing organisations across Scotland. Due to COVID-19 their workload has increased to deal with complex enquiries specific to lockdown. They will use the funding to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Social Farms & Gardens (SF&G)
£139,600 24/06/2020
36
£139,600 over two years (£68,700, £70,900) for the PT London Project Officer (3 dpw) and PT London Support Project Officer (2 dpw) and associated project running costs.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Social Farms & Gardens (SF&G)
£9,000 15/05/2020
A grant of £9,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Social Farms and Gardens
£22,000 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - ALB - Natural England - ALB-Natural England-Grant: Growing Care Farming Project
£372,810 01/04/2020
Growing care farming is one of three projects within the Children and Nature Programme. This project is looking to support a transformational increase in the scale and scope of care farm services, so ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Resilience Digging Deeper
£522,039 29/01/2019
60
The five-year project is using the £499,992 grant to bring community growing groups together to share skills, knowledge and experience through practical workshops and to build a network to support ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Social Farms and Gardens
£191,000 23/01/2019
48
Towards unrestricted core costs that support the practical implementation of the merger to form Social Farms and Gardens.
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Together - Continuation Funding
£96,584 15/09/2017
12
This project aims achieve a range of ambitions, including encouraging workplace growing, support for refugees and asylum seekers, and getting more land into community use. Community groups will learn ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
£25,000 13/03/2017
12
over eighteen months towards the salary of a part-time worker and other costs involved in consultations over a new federated structure
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Resillience : Enhancing Sustainability and Empowering People
£197,050 28/02/2017
24
The group supports community growing and green space activities. The two-year project is building on the success of a previous project and will train and support over 200 volunteers from 20 groups ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
£180,000 24/11/2016
36
£180,000 over three years (3 x £60,000) for a learning and support programme to London-based City Farms and community gardens.
National Lottery Community Fund - Federation of City Farms - Growing Resilience Community Gardens
£10,000 28/01/2016
12
The organisation supports, represents and promotes community gardens, allotments and farms to help communities grow. The project is using a £10,000 grant to run a pilot scheme which will work with ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Together
£804,916 11/09/2014
36
Not Available
Tudor Trust - Grant to Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
£70,000 24/06/2013
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the core costs of the Federation, with a focus on member directed work in England
Nesta - AC00267
£50,000 13/03/2013
Innovation in Giving programme grant to Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens Grant Ref AC00267
National Lottery Community Fund - Wales Community Land Advisory Service
£600,000 24/01/2013
60
The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens will deliver a five year Welsh Community Land Advisory Service. They will provide a specialist service to 250 community groups and 100 landowners ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Social Farms and Gardens
£114,999 20/07/2011
Towards the development of a Community Land Bank initiative that makes land available to community groups for growing projects and other purposes.
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing a Community Gardens and allotment support network for N Ireland
£10,000 04/11/2010
12
The organisation, which works to educate the in agriculture, horticulture, home crafts, country life, protection and improvement of the natural environment, will use the grant to develop a community ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Social Farms and Gardens
£250,000 01/07/2009
60
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards core costs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-78
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/06/1986, number: 294494
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/04/1986, number: 02011023
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR11: 0 days late,
Main office

WINDMILL HILL CITY FARM
PHILIP STREET
BEDMINSTER
BRISTOL
BS3 4EA

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1) PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE WITHOUTDISCRIMINATION BY BRINGING TOGETHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY= ORGANISATIONS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN A COMMON EFFORT TOADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION ANDOTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEQUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, INCLUDING CHILDREN, YOUNGPEOPLE, SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE, ELDERLY PEOPLE, DISABLED PEOPLEAND OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE.(2) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OFTHE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN HORTICULTURE,AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OFTHEPHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, THE REDUCTION, RE-USE AND.RECYCLING OF RESOURCES, THE USE OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES, RESPECTFOR THE ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ANIMAL WELFARE,COMMUNITY COHESION, CITIZENSHIP, LIFE SKILLS, THE PROMOTION OFEQUALITY AND OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, SO THAT THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE MAYBE IMPROVED.(3) = PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OFSUCH FACILITIES, INCLUDING CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, SOCIALLY EXCLUDEDPEOPLE, ELDERLY PEOPLE, DISABLED PEOPLE AND OTHERWISEDISADVANTAGED PEOPLE, SO AS TO PREPARE THEM FOR ANY TRADE,OCCUPATION OR SERVICE AND THEREBY ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE OR ENABLETHEM TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVELIHOOD.(4) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN THE CARE AND CONSIDERATION OF ALL ANIMALS,SO THAT THE PUBLIC WILL LEARN GREATER AWARENESS OF AND APPRECIATIONFOR SUCH ANIMALS.(5) PROVIDING RELIEF BY WAY OF THERAPEUTIC AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIESAND FACILITIES TO PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES,INCLUDING DISABLED PEOPLE AND OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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