GILLINGHAM FOODBANK

Registered charity 1146565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing food donated by the community for those in crisis such as benefit delay, benefit changes or debt, to help them over the crisis and signpost them to receive further help.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FOOD TO PEOPLE IN NEED OF EMERGENCY SUPPLIES IN NORTH DORSET, SOUTH SOMERSET AND WILTSHIRE AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income of £73,895 marginally exceeded net expenditure of £71,643, resulting in a surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £127,743, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of £44,000, and the trustees confirm the charity can settle liabilities for at least the next twelve months.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Nugent Cooper MBE
• Clive Roy Ozzard
• HANNAH GIBBONS
• Lewis Buckwell
• Neil Ian MacBean
• Sheela Vishnu Upton
• Simon Vivian Chase

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

Operates in: Dorset · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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