FOOTPRINTS IN THE COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1153121 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOOTPRINTS IN THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING REDCAR AREA FOODBANK

Footprints in the Community exists to assist with the relief of poverty in Redcar and Cleveland. This may be through emergency food provision (Redcar Area Foodbank), assistance with baby equipment, referral to counselling, befriending and general help, or various other activities. Footprints in the Community is the umbrella organisation under which projects will be formed to help local people

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE AREA OF REDCAR AND CLEVELAND WHO ARE IN CONDITION OF NEED, HARDSHIP, OR DISTRESS (BENEFICIARIES) BY PROVIDING PRACTICAL SUPPORT, INFORMATION, GUIDANCE, AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Redcar and Cleveland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £347,099, while free reserves stood at £191,748. The charity reported a net income of £1,050 for the year, with total income of £919,498 against total expenditure of £918,448. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue.

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.

• 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
• 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 — Footprints in the Community (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).

• Trussell — “A huge thank you to Trussell , who have supported this project over the last three years” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN DUFFIELDchair
• Alice Radley
• Claire Stollery
• DAVID ROBERT STONES · trustee of 3 other charities
• DEREK FARRELL
• Dr Sally Blackburn-Daniels
• Fiona Oakes
• GILLIAN MARY DAY
• Meg Peters
• TIM MYER

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

Operates in: Redcar And Cleveland

Income and spending

Common questions

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FOOTPRINTS FAMILY.

• THE FOOTPRINTS FAMILY income £149k
• FOOTPRINTS PROJECT LIMITED income £211k
• FOOTPRINTS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN IN ZAMBIA income £29k
• RAVENSHEAD COMMUNITY PROJECT income £97k
• RIDGEWAY COMMUNITY TRUST income £26k
• Community Action Redbridge income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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