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Social Farms and Gardens

A Registered Charity based in England

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The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-294494 .
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Description

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.

Also known as

  • FCFCG
  • Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
  • Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
  • Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
  • Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG)
  • Social Farms and Gardens
  • Social Farms & Gardens (SF&G)
  • Social Farms and Gardens

CCEW Charity number

294494

Company number

02011023

Registered

Postcode

BS3 4EA

Website

farmgarden.org.uk

Domain

farmgarden.org.uk

Latest income

£1,499,993 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.

Social Farms and Gardens

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Locations

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Registered Office in the UK

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Linked records

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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 3 active records and 0 inactive records, from 3 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-294494 .
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An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.

Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

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GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 294494 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

Social Farms and Gardens (this record)

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Social Farms and Gardens

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Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Community and economic development activities F20

UK Charity Activity Tags

These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.

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  • Education ED » Schools ED106
  • Facilities FA » Green space FA104

Theme (CCEW)

  • General Charitable Purposes 101
  • Education/training 102
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 105
  • Animals 111
  • Environment/conservation/heritage 112
  • Economic/community Development/employment 113
  • Recreation 116
  • Other Charitable Purposes 117

Beneficiaries (CCEW)

  • Children/young People 201
  • Elderly/old People 202
  • People With Disabilities 203
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies 205
  • Other Defined Groups 206
  • The General Public/mankind 207

Activities (CCEW)

  • Makes Grants To Organisations 302
  • Provides Human Resources 304
  • Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space 305
  • Provides Services 306
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information 307
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research 308
  • Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body 309
  • Other Charitable Activities 310

Scale of operation

  • National

Social Farms and Gardens

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Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
1986-06-20 Registered as a charity
2004-03-31 672,087 544,016
2005-03-31 740,601 609,193
2006-03-31 709,418 716,832
2007-03-31 762,781 768,433
2008-03-31 544,614 598,275
2009-03-31 941,899 857,119
2010-03-31 1,082,716 1,048,497
2011-03-31 1,254,041 1,230,436
2012-03-31 1,487,064 1,398,820
2013-03-31 989,530 1,026,080
2014-03-31 941,740 1,005,862
2015-03-31 995,824 967,920
2016-03-31 888,123 947,135
2017-03-31 634,628 771,814
2018-03-31 1,025,450 868,298
2019-03-31 929,640 937,813
2020-03-31 899,124 1,015,330
2021-03-31 1,815,337 1,718,176
2022-03-31 1,499,993 1,374,927
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Social Farms and Gardens

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Charity people

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2022
£
2021
£
Employees 20 19
Employees paid more than £60,000 - -
Volunteers 5 5
Trustees 7
Employees
Volunteers

Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Social Farms and Gardens

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Statement of Financial Activities

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Statement of financial activities for year ended .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2022
£000s
2021
£000s
Incoming resources
Donations and other voluntary income 5.8 81.6
Legacies - -
Endowments - -
Donations and legacies 5.8 81.6
Income from charitable activities 1,458.1 1,654.2
Income from other trading activities 36.0 79.6
Income from investments 0.0 0.0
Other income - -
Total 1,500.0 1,815.3
Expenditure
Investment management - -
Other spending on raising funds 15.2 21.0
Spending on raising funds 15.2 21.0
Grants to institutions 38.1 102.6
Other charitable activities 1,321.6 1,594.6
Charitable activities 1,359.7 1,697.2
Other spending - -
Total 1,374.9 1,718.2
Net income / (expenditure) 125.1 97.2

Social Farms and Gardens

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Balance sheet

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Balance sheet at .

Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.

2022
£000s
2021
£000s
Fixed assets
Tangible and intangible assets 170.7 170.7
Investment assets - -
170.7 170.7
Current assets
Current investment assets - -
Cash 162.3 162.3
Other current assets 319.8 319.8
482.1 482.1
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year (203.1) (203.1)
Net current assets 279.0 279.0
Total assets less current liabilities 449.7 449.7
Creditors
Amounts falling due after one year - -
Net assets 449.7 449.7
Funds
Endowment funds - -
Restricted funds 68.1 68.1
Unrestricted funds 381.6 381.6
449.7 449.7

Social Farms and Gardens

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Income from government

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2022
£
2021
£
Contracts with government
Income from government contracts 18,000 5,000
Government contracts as % of total income 1.2% 0.3%
Number of government contracts 1 4
Government grants
Income from government grants 968,077 1,325,881
Government grants as % of total income 64.5% 73.0%
Number of government grants 6 6

Social Farms and Gardens

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Grants received

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Received 39 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Quartet Community Foundation
Donor Directed
£250 Grant to Social Farms & Gardens
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Main Grant
£2,550
1 month
Grant to SOCIAL FARMS AND GARDENS
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
ALB - Natural England - Children in Nature Programme
£125,998 ALB - Natural England - ALB-Natural England-Grant: Growing Care Farming Project
The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All England
£9,500
6 months
Growing Resilient Communities
Oct 2020 to Apr 2021
The National Lottery Community Fund
People and Places 3
£93,886
3 years
Edible Cardiff
Feb 2021 to Feb 2024
Scottish Government
Wellbeing Fund - Invited applications - Wave 1
£2,000 Social Farms and Gardens
The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
£4,288
9 months
COVID-19 Community Growing Guidance and Support
Aug 2020 to May 2021
City Bridge Trust
Connecting the Capital
£139,600 Grant to Social Farms & Gardens (SF&G)
City Bridge Trust
COVID19 London Community Response Fund - Wave 2
£9,000 Grant to Social Farms & Gardens (SF&G)
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Main Grant
£22,000
6 months
Grant to SOCIAL FARMS AND GARDENS

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

National Lottery grants data comes from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport who publish the National Lottery grants database.

This data is used under the Open Government Licence. Grants that are also published under 360Giving have been removed to ensure there is not duplication.

  • The National Lottery (1 grant) | Licence

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