ATHERTON & LEIGH FOODBANK

Registered charity 1153333 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ASSIST PERSONS PRIMARILY IN ATHERTON, TYLDESLEY, LEIGH AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UK WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD TO ENSURE A HEALTHY AND NUTRITIOUS DIET DURING A PERIOD OF CRISIS WHERE THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN FOOD TO EAT.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS PRIMARILY IN ATHERTON, TYLDESLEY, LEIGH AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS ("BENEFICIARIES") IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD TO ENSURE A HEALTHY AND NUTRITIOUS DIET

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY IN ATHERTON, TYLDESLEY, LEIGH AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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: Wigan, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a healthy financial situation with sufficient unrestricted reserves to cover current liabilities and future running costs for at least three years. The charity received total income of £115,603 and had total payments of £131,268, resulting in a net decrease in funds, but maintains significant cash reserves. The trustees report that new funding from local companies is expected to cover increasing costs in the coming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• 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)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Eric Firthchair
• JOHN ROBERT MATTHIAS
• Paul James Walker Blinkhorn
• Richard Alex Drabble
• Richard Thomas Phelan

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LETCHWORTH FOODBANK.

• LETCHWORTH FOODBANK income £228k
• LEIGH CARING KITCHEN income £730k
• LEICESTER SOUTH FOODBANK income £516k
• EASTLEIGH BASICS BANK income £260k
• IVYBRIDGE & DISTRICT FOODBANK income £55k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k

Side by side with its peers

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