Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

NOURISH (SCOTLAND) 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 6 years
(12 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £16,387 £23,338 £9,153 £7,970
Donations & Legacies £209,925 £389,367 £514,185 £444,394
Other Income £34,238 £8,920 £23,170 £82,699
Investment Income
Total income £260,550 £421,625 £546,508 £555,702 £535,063
Charitable activities spending £288,685 £331,908 £461,658 £561,240
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 1%
Other spending
Total spending £288,685 £331,908 £463,818 £596,319 £566,527
Surplus/deficit -£28,135 £89,717 £82,690 -£40,617 -£31,464
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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
Esmee Fairbairn£339,561
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£151,000
Tudor Trust£87,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£60,000 29/07/2021
6
Towards project costs a collaborative programme of events that will raise the profile of sustainable food and farming as a means to mitigate climate change at COP26.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£2,000 05/03/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£25,000 09/12/2020
over one year towards the co-ordination of a global programme of local dialogues between farmers and city authorities on sustainable food systems, to feed in to international discussions on food and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£50,000 07/07/2020
16
Towards work that will lead to a declaration by up to 500 global cities, ahead of and during COP26, to commit to a more sustainable food system
Tudor Trust - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£60,000 07/07/2020
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the core costs of work towards a fairer and more sustainable food system in Scotland
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£32,376 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£151,000 30/11/2019
36
Making Rights Real
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£197,185 18/06/2019
36
Towards core costs enabling the organisation to continue to influence Scottish food policy and practice to create a more sustainable food system for Scotland.
Thirty Percy Foundation - Grant to Nourish
£45,000 06/01/2019
Funding to support a collaborative independent enquiry on food, farming and climate to build consensus on the pathway for Scotland. Developing templates for action at individual business level and ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£60,000 20/06/2018
24
over two years as continuation funding towards key salaries to build community input and partnerships via the Scottish Food Coalition, to support the implementation of a sustainable food system for ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£60,000 19/02/2016
24
over two years towards the salary of a co-ordinator for the Scottish Food Coalition to engage local communities and develop a Sustainable Food Atlas
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Nourish Scotland
£191,305 25/11/2015
36
Towards the cost of influencing Scottish food policy through building and supporting civil society coalitions, particularly on environmental sustainability and rights-based, participative approaches ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 36-79
  • CONWAY, Sarah
    Appointed: 2023
    Occupation: Administrative Coordinator
  • FLINT, David
    Appointed: 2022
    Occupation: Responsible Investment Reporting Analyst
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 23/03/2018, number: SC048239
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/02/2012, number: SC417014
Filing Record
4 returns made; AR20: 37 days late,
Main office

1 Summerhall Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL

Objectives

The objects of the Company are to carry on activities which benefit the community and in particular (without limitation) to: to advance environmental protection by promoting sustainable food systems to encourage and support communities in: actively participating in development of public policy as it relates to food and agriculture. and developing sustainable local food networks to promote and strengthen the voice of voluntary and civil society organisations working on improving the food systems to prevent and relieve poverty, with particular emphasis on food poverty and insecurity to promote and advance right to food as a fundamental human right

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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