MINI- SCRAPBOX

Registered charity 1050261 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCRAPBOX

Scrapbox runs a reclaimed resources centre, dedicated to collecting, processing and redistributing clean, re-usable waste materials from businesses and individuals which still have a useful purpose in art, craft and home projects. We do this through selling the resources to our Members, who pay a small fee to join and who benefit from low cost, reclaimed materials, saved mainly from landfill.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE DISTRIBUTION OF DONATED MATERIALS TO SCHOOLS, PLAYGROUP AND OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS ESTABLISHED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO ENCOURAGE RE-CYCLING AND RE-USE OF MATERIALS BY SUCH SCHOOLS, PLAYGROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS.

Area of benefit: NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, CAMBRIDGESHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Broadland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a surplus of over £30,000, reversing previous losses. Total funds at the end of the year stood at £32,910, which the trustees describe as prudent reserves covering three months of operating expenses. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept in accordance with the Charities Act and that the accounts accorded with those records.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mini Scrapbox (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Fairchild · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Thomas
• Deborah Boldero
• Rev ANDREW PAUL WHITEHEAD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Sharon Brett

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILTSHIRE SCRAPSTORE AND RESOURCE CENTRE.

• WILTSHIRE SCRAPSTORE AND RESOURCE CENTRE income £312k
• Derby Scrapstore income £50k
• EXETER SCRAPSTORE income £44k
• SALTASH SCRAPSTORE income £61k
• CAMBRIDGE RE-USE income £180k
• TAVISTOCK SCRAPSTORE income £30k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.