Newcastle Foodbank

Registered charity 1152656 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NONE, Newcastle West End Foodbank, THE BEDE FOODBANK

provision of food parcels for people in crisis

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £397k for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,375k and expenditure of £978k. The trustees report that free reserves stood at £986k, which is below the previous year's figure of £1,400k, though no specific policy target amount is explicitly defined in the text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £541k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Louise Waltonchair
• Monju Meah
• Sarah Louise Medcalf
• Sophie Alexandra Anne Brydon
• Stephen John Lightley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Thomas Cockburn

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 NEWCASTLE STAFFS FOODBANK.

• NEWCASTLE STAFFS FOODBANK income £370k
• CARLISLE FOODBANK income £344k
• Age UK Newcastle and North Tyneside income £10.3m
• SOUTHEND FOODBANK income £265k
• DONCASTER FOODBANK (TRUSSELL TRUST) LTD income £151k
• STOCKPORT FOODBANK income £318k

Side by side with its peers

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