Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 2
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: -10 ?

THE ICELAND FOODS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 

The Foundation supports the good causes for which Iceland Foods and its employees undertake a wide range of fundraising activities each year. Since 1986 Iceland Foods and the Foundation have together given over GBP9m to charities including Alder Hey Children's Hospital (over GBP3m), Help For Heroes (GBP1.6m), Alzheimer's Research UK (over GBP3.0m) and The Prostate Cancer Charity (over GBP500,000).
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £3,380,051 available, equivalent to 29 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
05/04/23£1,635£1,379£256£194£3,527£3,38029.400
05/04/22£959£1,646£-687£119£3,271£3,20023.300
05/04/21£365£963£-597n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/20£1,967£1,566£401£0£4,555£4,53634.800
05/04/19£4,370£3,105£1,265£0£4,154£4,15416.100
05/04/18£5,489£2,805£2,684£0£2,889£2,88912.400
05/04/17£6,799£6,825£-27£0£205£2050.400
05/04/16£3,343£3,561£-218£0£232£2320.800
05/04/15£1,311£1,160£151£0£450£2732.800
05/04/14£2,219£2,006£214£0£299£2991.800
05/04/13£143£296£-154£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/12£1,175£1,102£73£0£239£2392.600
05/04/11*£1,737£1,622£115£0£166£1661.200
05/04/10£125£209£-84£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/09*£201£100£101£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/08£399£399£0£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/07£0£0£0£0£0£0NAN00
05/04/06£0£0£0£0£0£0NAN00
05/04/05£1£210£-209£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/04£1£0£1£0£0£0NAN00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 12.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 14.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 24%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 29.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 33 months
Quick Ratio: 25.3
Asset Split ?
Established: 43 years

www.ifcf.org.uk

IFCF@Iceland.co.uk

01244842885

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Medical research
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to The Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation
£10,000 22/03/2023
Discretionary grant awarded
Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to The Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation
£10,000 01/03/2021
Discretionary grant awarded

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/03/1981, number: 281943
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR11: 31 days late, AR09: 0 days late,
Main office

Second Avenue
Deeside Industrial Park
Deeside
Flintshire
CH5 2NW

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OR IN THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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