SLOUGH FOODBANK

Registered charity 1153813 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of Slough Foodbank is the prevention or relief of poverty in the United Kingdom, mainly in Slough and the surrounding area , in particular but not exclusively by providing emergency food supplies to individuals in need , as motivated by the principles of the Christian Faith.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BUT PRIMARILY IN SLOUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED, AS MOTIVATED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Slough, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£228k

Latest spending

£241k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £154,563, which exceeds its stated policy target of a minimum £80,000. However, the charity reported a net expenditure of £13,311 for the year, with unrestricted expenditure exceeding unrestricted income by £19,000. The trustees note that while demand may be declining, they are not basing planning on falling demand due to local economic trends, and future funding for key projects like the Financial Inclusion Project is uncertain.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: at least six months operational costs or a minimum of £80,000 (reserves figure: £155k)

“It is our policy to hold unrestricted cash reserves equivalent to at least six months operational costs or a minimum of £80,000.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 130
Government income: £4,218 — grants £4,218 (2); 2% of the £227,630 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 130
Government income: £11,495 — grants £11,495 (2); 6% of the £183,965 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 110
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit

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

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Anoma Pitt
Celia Charlotte Taylor
Sarah McAllister
WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£228k	£241k
31/12/2024	£184k	£241k
31/12/2023	£222k	£187k
31/12/2022	£114k	£134k
31/12/2021	£164k	£101k

Common questions

Is SLOUGH FOODBANK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £154,563, which exceeds its stated policy target of a minimum £80,000. However, the charity reported a net expenditure of £13,311 for the year, with unrestricted expenditure exceeding unrestricted income by £19,000. The trustees note that while demand may be declining, they are not basing planning on falling demand due to local economic trends, and future funding for key projects like the Financial Inclusion Project is uncertain. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds SLOUGH FOODBANK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SLOUGH FOODBANK as a grant recipient include SOCIETE GENERALE UK FOUNDATION, SLOUGH BAPTIST CHURCH.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
SOCIETE GENERALE UK FOUNDATION	FY2024	£5k	Slough Winter Appeal
SLOUGH BAPTIST CHURCH	FY2021	£780
SLOUGH BAPTIST CHURCH	FY2022	£437
SLOUGH BAPTIST CHURCH	FY2025	£125

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	24/08/2026	£13k	Funding for Signposting Officer
Postcode Lottery	04/07/2025	£40k	Millionaire Street 2025 07w2
UK government	23/07/2020	£10k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE E H SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£53k
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON TOWN TRUST	1	£32k
THE BOOTH CHARITIES	1	£20k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON	1	£7k
THE STONEYGATE TRUST	1	£5k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST THOMAS WITH ST MAURICE, YORK.	1	£5k
THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£2k
WARWICKSHIRE FREEMASONS' CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£2k

Charities like this

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

HARROW FOODBANK income £92k
STOKE-ON-TRENT FOODBANK income £397k
HILLINGDON FOODBANK income £167k
Salford Foodbank income £442k
NANTWICH FOOD BANK income £58k
STRATFORD UPON AVON FOODBANK income £378k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SLOUGH FOODBANK	£228k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
HARROW FOODBANK FY2025	£92k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
STOKE-ON-TRENT FOODBANK FY2025	£397k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HILLINGDON FOODBANK FY2025	£167k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Salford Foodbank FY2025	£442k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
NANTWICH FOOD BANK FY2025	£58k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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