EASTBOURNE FOODBANK

Registered charity 1149902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Prevention and relief of poverty in Eastbourne, East Sussex and the surrounding area by providing items and services to individuals in need which they would not otherwise afford through lack of means.This is achieved mainly through the provision of 3 days food, clothing & signposting to services.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS'("OBJECTS")FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN EASTBOURNE,EAST SUSSEX AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED WHICH THEY WOULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.

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: Eastbourne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit for the year of £244,772, resulting from a decrease in donated income and grants alongside slightly higher resources expended. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted net current assets were £148,385, while the charity maintains a designated reserve fund of £587,339 to meet its policy target of three to six months' expenditure.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08300396 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ARMSTRONG, Clare Louisa — director, appointed 13/07/2026on trustee list
• DYTE, Keith David — director, appointed 13/04/2026on trustee list
• NORTHWAY, Jonathan Ross, Dr — director, appointed 13/04/2026on trustee list
• WHITBY, Alison — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• COLEMAN, Timothy James — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• SCOTT-RALPHS, David — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• KELLY, Caroline — director, appointed 22/11/2022on trustee list
• BUTCHER, Adrian — director, appointed 12/04/2021on trustee list
• HOLLIDAY, Jess — secretary, appointed 09/09/2024

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Butcherchair
• Alison Whitby
• Caroline Kelly
• Clare Louisa Armstrong
• David Scott-Ralphs
• Jonathan Ross Northway · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith David Dyte
• Timothy Coleman

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 WEST CHESHIRE FOODBANK.

• WEST CHESHIRE FOODBANK income £753k
• SHERBORNE FOOD BANK income £53k
• LEICESTER SOUTH FOODBANK income £516k
• BOURNE FOODBANK income £36k
• HARROGATE DISTRICT FOODBANK income £115k
• EAST GRINSTEAD FOODBANK income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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