HIGHBRIDGE AREA FOODBANK

Registered charity 1147076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To collect by way of donation non perishable food and distribute via various referral agencies to those in need

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WITHIN THE ECCLESIASTICAL BOUNDARY OF THE PARISHES OF THE BURNHAM AND DISTRICT CHURCHES TOGETHER WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates entirely through volunteers with no salary costs, maintaining total cash funds of £56,040 at the year-end. The trustees report no concerns regarding financial capacity to continue operations, supported by secured grant funding for specific projects. The charity notes a reduction in the number of emergency food parcels distributed compared to the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Laing Dickchair
• Guy Michael Peters
• Jade Victoria Zerk
• Maxine Elizabeth Bashford
• NICHOLAS TIMOTHY BASHFORD
• Rev Kathleen Allen MTh
• Vivien Evans

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).