BRADFORD METROPOLITAN FOOD BANK

Registered charity 1120018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL/ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AMONG PEOPLE LIVING/WORKING IN BRADFORD METROPOLTAN DISTRICT BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS+/SERVICES WHICH THEY OTHERWISE COULD NOT AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. WE COLLECT UNWANTED NONPERISHABLE FOOD FROM ORGANISATIONS&BUSINESSES (AVERT IT GOING INTO LANDFILL)& DISTRIBUTE IT FREE TO ORGANISATIONS WORKING WITH THOSE IN NEED.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL AND / OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT OF BRADFORD BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS AND / OR SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.

Area of benefit: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £27,230 for the year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £107,748, which the trustees note exceeds their stated policy target of £19,326. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with the examiner confirming no material matters required attention. The trustees expressed confidence in the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, despite acknowledging increasing financial pressures and reduced grant availability.

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 3 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• LASHMAN SINGHchair
• HELEN BRADSHAW LYNSKEY
• JULIE WOODHURST
• John Angus Henkel · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Graham Walker
• Justin Kerslake

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRADFORD NORTH FOODBANK.

• BRADFORD NORTH FOODBANK income £186k
• BRIDPORT FOOD BANK income £77k
• Salford Foodbank income £442k
• LETCHWORTH FOODBANK income £228k
• BRIDGEND FOODBANK income £253k
• BOUNDS GREEN FOOD BANK income £520k

Side by side with its peers

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