STOCKPORT FOODBANK

Registered charity 1156261 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing emergency food parcels to people in Stockport who are experiencing difficult times due to unemployment, benefit changes/delays, low income or financial/domestic hardship

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF PEOPLE IN STOCKPORT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL 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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net profit of £63,905 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £310,501 and total expenditure of £251,100. The trustees note that while income appears healthy, a portion is ring-fenced, and regular income is currently lower than expenditure, prompting efforts to increase donations. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Julian Russell Poynerchair
• Gary Peter Blackwell
• JOHN JOSEPH BULMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Michael Watkins · trustee of 3 other charities
• Nicola Owen

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

Operates in: Stockport

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE FOODBANK CIO.

• NORTH BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE FOODBANK CIO income £855k
• CHIPPING BARNET FOODBANK income £349k
• BILLINGHAM AND STOCKTON BOROUGH FOODBANK income £128k
• SOUTHEND FOODBANK income £265k
• Newcastle Foodbank income £1.4m
• LETCHWORTH FOODBANK income £228k

Side by side with its peers

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