GROW TOGETHER

Charity number: 1193728
Charity reporting is up to date (3 days late)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Grow Together provides growing areas and activities for people who have need of such facilities. We relieve poverty by providing food grown in community growing spaces to the local foodbanks. We advance education for the public benefit in the subjects of horticulture, conservation of natural resources and improvement of the environment. For people in Leicester and Leicestershire.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £502
Total expenditure: £429

People

3 Trustee(s)

20 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • Education/training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
  • Environment/conservation/heritage
  • Economic/community Development/employment
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
  • Leicester City
  • Leicestershire

Governance

Registration history:
  • 08 March 2021: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Complaints handling
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

3 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Shantilal Narotam Chauhan Trustee 29 August 2023
None on record
Diane Mary Bell Trustee 08 March 2021
None on record
Benjamin Brown Trustee 08 March 2021
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £1.19k £409 £502
Total expenditure £822 £355 £429
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants £500 N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 03 February 2025 3 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 03 February 2025 3 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 31 January 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 31 January 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 16 January 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 16 January 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 08 Mar 2021

Charitable objects

1. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION BY PROVIDING GROWING AREAS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN LEICESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS’. 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY PROVIDING FOOD GROWN IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN A COMMUNITY GARDEN IN LEICESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF AND GIVEN TO THOSE IN NEED AS SERVICED BY FOOD BANKS AND CHARITIES CONCERNED WITH THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN LEICESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF’. 3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE SUBJECTS OF HORTICULTURE, CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING IN HORTICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION’. 4. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY’. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Contact information

Address:
WYCLIFFE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
THE COMMON
EVINGTON
LEICESTER
LE5 6EA
Phone:
01163191221
Email:
contact@growtogether.org.uk
Website:

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