BOURNEMOUTH FOODBANK

Registered charity 1143446 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of financial hardship among people living or working in Bournemourth, Dorset and surrounding area by holding stocks of food and giving food to those who are seen as needy

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN BOURNEMOUTH ,DORSET,AND SURROUNDING AREA, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH FOOD AND OTHER RELIEF WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF RESOURCES.B) TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT POVERTY, THROUGH UNDERTAKING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO POVERTY AND THE MOST APPRPRIATE WAYS TO MITIGATE THESE

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: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £150,874, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of three months of core operating costs. The charity reported a net outgoing of resources before gains of £40,409 for the year, resulting in a net asset position of £265,591.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bournemouth Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Bernadette Dunwoodie
• Emma Jane Kelly
• Julia Shaw
• Lauren Catherine Jenkins
• Michael McClintock
• Patrick Canavan
• Richard John Smith

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• BOURNE FOODBANK income £36k
• BOREHAMWOOD FOODBANK income £234k
• HARROGATE DISTRICT FOODBANK income £115k
• BOGNOR REGIS FOODBANK income £223k
• BROMLEY BOROUGH FOODBANK income £355k
• DORCHESTER FOODBANK income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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