HARROW FOODBANK

Registered charity 1154292 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Harrow Foodbank has as its objective the prevention or relief of poverty in Harrow and surrounding areas in particular, but not exclusively, by providing emergency food supplies to individuals in need and to charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN HARROW AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND TO 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £35,440 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased grant income. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £259,072, which the trustees confirm comfortably satisfies their policy target of maintaining three years' operating costs. The trustees have assessed the charity's financial position and income forecasts, concluding that there are adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 31/03/2025 (received 21/09/2026, 233 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 17/03/2025, 45 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRENDAN TIMLINchair
• Abigail Papadopoulos
• David Al-Basha
• Lara Waywell
• Nahid Boethe
• Rachelle Goldberg · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rob Ogundere

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

Operates in: Harrow

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BARROW FOOD BANK LIMITED.

• BARROW FOOD BANK LIMITED income £125k
• HARROGATE DISTRICT FOODBANK income £115k
• HORNSEY FOODBANK income £167k
• SLOUGH FOODBANK income £228k
• SHERBORNE FOOD BANK income £53k
• CARDIFF FOODBANK income £601k

Side by side with its peers

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