LONG EATON AND SAWLEY FOODBANK

Registered charity 1152886 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

RUNNING A FOODBANK

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN LONG EATON AND SAWLEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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: Erewash, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with total funds of £186,333, a decrease from £198,504 the previous year, driven by a net expenditure of £12,171 against income of £73,044. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of three months' operating expenditure and consider the current unrestricted reserves of £178,622 to be appropriate. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 10/06/2024, 131 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 25/02/2023, 25 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Long Eaton & Sawley 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).

• Foundation Derbyshire — “(supported by Foundation Derbyshire)” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Michael Arnoldchair
• Jaspal Kaur
• Lindsey Rowlinson
• Philip Howard Edward Perkins
• Thomas Charles Smith

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• THE RYEDALE COMMUNITY FOODBANK income £73k

Side by side with its peers

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