CHEPSTOW FOODBANK

Registered charity 1151076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity accepts donations of non-perishable food from members of the public directly or via supermarket collections. These donations are weighed and sorted into food-types then checked for end dates and stored.Referral Agencies make referral for those in urgent need of food-support to visit the foodbank distribution centrewhere they are given 3-days worth of emergency food.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE TOWN OF CHEPSTOW AND SURROUNDING AREAS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (BENEFICIARIES) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME CONSIDER APPROPRIATE AND ARE CONSISTENT WITH SHOWING HUMANITARIAN COMPASSION. 2. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FIRST OBJECT, TO PROVIDE FREE OF CHARGE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, EMERGENCY FOOD PARCELS TO BENEFICIARIES REFERRED BY PARTNER CHARITIES OR HEALTH OR SOCIAL SERVICES OR SIMILAR PUBLIC BODIES.3. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FIRST OBJECT, TO PROVIDE SUCH OTHER SUPPORT TO BENEFICIARIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ADVICE AND GUIDANCE, AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME CONSIDER APPROPRIATE AND CONSISTENT WITH SHOWING HUMANITARIAN COMPASSION.4. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FIRST OBJECT, TO PROMOTE THE NEEDS OF BENEFICIARIES AND TO SOLICIT FUNDS AND DONATIONS OR SUPPLIES OF APPROPRIATE ITEMS FOR FOOD PARCELS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is run entirely by volunteers and received 920 referrals covering 443 households during the year. It supplied food parcels to 1,796 people and provided signposting advice, including onsite Financial Inclusion Advice. The document does not disclose specific financial figures for reserves, income, or expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Trussell Trust — “Seeded by The Trussell Trust” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hilary Collins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Jones
• Louise Kennedy
• Marie Simpson
• Paul Doyle

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Monmouthshire · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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