YORK FOODBANK

Registered charity 1154149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve poverty, hardship or distress through the provision of food to people in need of emergency supplies in York and the surrounding area and by such other means as the trustees may determine.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FOOD TO PEOPLE IN NEED OF EMERGENCY SUPPLIES IN YORK AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £433,037 exceeded the trustees' desired reserve target of £270,940. The charity reported a small net deficit of £3,632 for the year, which was offset by the receipt of gift aid claims from previous years. The trustees confirmed there were no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• CALEB SAMUEL ELLWOODchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANGELA DAWNE MOORE
• Adrian Fuller · trustee of 2 other charities
• David John Lampitt
• David Keith Brown
• Elizabeth Anne Fryer
• James David Topliss

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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

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Side by side with its peers

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