BUCKINGHAM EMERGENCY FOOD APPEAL

Registered charity 1066578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEFA

Provision of food and other help to the homeless and needy, particularly at Christmas time.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS OR THOSE OTHERWISE IN NEED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £8,855 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its unrestricted funds to £141,562. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and confirm adequate resources for future operations. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting approximately two years of actual costs incurred.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 19/02/2024, 19 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNABEL Lawrence
• Alison Elizabeth Smith
• Isabella Buckingham
• Mark Buckingham
• Polly Bowles
• Rebecca Lucy Smith
• William Buckingham

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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