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

Objects

The objectives of the CIO are:3.1. The prevention or relief of poverty in Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding areas, in particular but not exclusively by providing emergency food parcels and welfare services to individuals in need and/or charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.3.2. To do any other thing consistent with the primary purpose of the charity as described above.Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable.

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

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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
• 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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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
• BLACKBURN FOODBANK income £959k
• TEWKESBURY FOODBANK income £152k
• MID NORFOLK FOODBANK income £44k
• THE RYEDALE COMMUNITY FOODBANK income £73k
• SHERBORNE FOOD BANK income £53k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.