Where Our Money Goes
We have to raise all our own income each year so our fundraising focuses on our key work, which is delivering our Mentored Home Cooking courses for people struggling to eat a healthy and affordable diet. This year, we need to raise £350,000.
To maximise benefit to our participants, and value for our commissioners and funders, it’s important that we run Bags of Taste as efficiently as possible. We have a tiny staff team – only 19 staff – with only 2 full time staff members plus 200 dedicated volunteers. This means that a huge proportion of what we raise goes directly towards supporting our beneficiaries.
How We Are Funded
Thank you to all the generous trusts and foundations, individuals and corporates who fund our work; we are also funded through contracts from local authorities/public health; health bodies and social housing providers who commission us to work with their most vulnerable populations. Our current funders are listed here.
Our Structure
Bags of Taste is a registered charity, number 1218102
Bags of Taste is also a company limited by guarantee, company number 09160945
How we Run Bags of Taste
We take our governance seriously and have an independent board of trustees that agrees on strategic decisions concerning Bags of Taste, meeting quarterly and overseeing our organisation and its finances.
Our Annual Accounts
Every year our accounts are prepared by a specialist charities accountant and are published on our website.