Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

KINGDOM STOREHOUSE LTD 

The charity operates a Trussell Trust Network Food Bank in Harold Hill, Romford, Essex. It also operates a CAP Job Club, and a CAP Debt Centre.
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
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
28/02/23£144£153£-8n/an/an/an/an/a30
28/02/22£169£119£50n/an/an/an/an/a25
28/02/21£248£130£118n/an/an/an/an/a12
29/02/20£65£93£-28n/an/an/an/an/a12
28/02/19£91£83£8n/an/an/an/an/a30
28/02/18£117£78£39£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/17£98£80£17£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/16£84£73£12£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/15£48£73£-25£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/14*£82£40£42£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years

www.haroldhill.foodbank.org.uk

info@haroldhill.foodbank.org.uk

01708386323

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Havering,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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
DCMS£49,334
The Trussell Trust£45,625
Co-Operative Group£14,857
City Bridge Trust£12,378
CAF£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Essex Community Foundation£7,500
The Fore£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£7,500 03/02/2023
to support the running costs of a food bank in Romford for the next six months
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£5,000 11/10/2022
Emergency grant
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£31,625 30/11/2021
Volunteer Coordinator salary
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£5,116 23/10/2021
We'd like to buy PPE items and Covid-19 related expenses, including; extra printing of e-referrals, a heat sensor camera and Perspex shields around clients in the reception area.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Harold Hill Job Club
£4,340 24/10/2020
We would like to continue running the job club, which has become a regular drop-for people who are seeking employment.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,334 19/08/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse Ltd
£10,000 02/07/2020
3
Grant to Kingdom Storehouse Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse
£7,378 11/06/2020
£7,378 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£4,500 27/05/2020
CV emergency costs: salary costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Harold Hill Food Bank
£10,000 07/05/2020
12
The funding will be used to purchase food for the food bank and a contribution towards the Manager and Volunteer Coordinator role.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Harold Hill Foodbank - Kingdom Storehouse Ltd
£5,000 22/04/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Harold Hill Foodbank - Kingdom Storehouse Ltd, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Harold Hill Food Bank
£5,000 17/04/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£4,500 31/03/2020
CV emergency costs: salary costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse Ltd
£5,401 15/11/2019
We want to improve our warehouse, making it more welcoming for our clients and a better place to work for our volunteers.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£5,000 12/02/2019
Van purchase. 04/03/2019 changed to estate car purchase.
The Trussell Trust - Grant to Harold Hill Foodbank
£5,000 31/01/2019
12
Purchase of food bank van
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse Ltd
£6,736 19/11/2018
Help us relieve poverty or distress for persons in crisis by providing emergency food.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse Ltd - Harold Hill Foodbank
£6,341 29/11/2017
We need further funding to keep our job club open. The three year grant we received has come to an end.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse Ltd. (t/a Harold Hill Foodbank)
£8,993 04/08/2017
Fund our holistic approach, focusing on building resilience & combatting the causes of poverty whilst providing food and supplies.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse - Harold Hill Foodbank
£90,000 10/03/2016
36
towards three years' salary of the Foodbank Project Manager at an organisation providing food, advice and support services to disadvantaged people in the London Borough of Havering
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Kingdom Storehouse
£56,900 13/05/2015
36
£56,900 over three years (£18,600; £19,000; £19,300) for 61% of the salary costs of the Development Manager.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-59
  • JANE SWIFT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Operations Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/08/2013, number: 1153554
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/02/2012, number: 07942142
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
  • 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
10 returns made; AR14: 34 days late,
Main office

Harold Hill Foodbank
No Unit 1
Guardian Business Centre
Faringdon Avenue
Harold Hill
ROMFORD

Objectives

A CHARITY WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR DISTRESS FOR PERSONS IN, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING, UNITED KINGDOM, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, DEBT ADVICE, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, INTERVIEW AND EMPLOYABILITY MENTORING AND ADVICE AND OTHER CHARITABLE SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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