Waterside Foodbank

Registered charity 1136282 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WATERSIDE ECUMENICAL PROJECTS, WATERSIDE FOOD BANK

Supply emergency food for people in need throughout the New Forest Waterside area.Supply a free debt advice service for the people in the Waterside area.

Objects

The prevention or relief of poverty along the Waterside between Eling and Calshot, and the surrounding areas or such wider area as may seem appropriate from time to time by providing donations, items, and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty and in particular by providing emergency food supplies and to help those in crisis including signposting to other agencies.

Area of benefit: SOUTHAMPTON

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a cumulative surplus of £55,749 for the year ending March 2026, bringing the cumulative bank balance to £175,860.49. The document details monthly income and expenses but does not disclose staff remuneration levels, reserves policies, or audit status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

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 31/03/2022 (received 01/04/2023, 60 days after the 31/01/2023 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

• Stephen Russell Greenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Ann Burke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Alan Paul Glaze
• Gillian Margaret Pickering · trustee of 1 other charity
• LINDA JEAN MATTHEWS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Jane Brown
• Stephen Fordham · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

• BRADFORD NORTH FOODBANK income £186k
• HERTFORD AND DISTRICT FOODBANK income £148k
• TAMESIDE EAST FOODBANK income £158k
• WARRINGTON FOODBANK income £418k
• THE BAY FOODBANK income £338k
• NEW FOREST BASICS BANK income £245k

Side by side with its peers

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