Cheddar Valley Foodbank

Registered charity 1157959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHEDDAR VALLEY PLUS

To provide three days emergency food for those in need and referred by a supporting agency

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE CHEDDAR VALLEY 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.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that 618 food parcels were distributed during the financial year. The trustees report that reserves are held to cover essential costs such as rent, utilities, and food stock for a period of at least 6 months. No specific financial figures for income, expenditure, or total reserves are provided in the submitted text.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 08/08/2024, 69 days after the 31/05/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Trussell Trust — “Seeded by The Trussell Trust” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bruce John Rance
• Dr Nigel Peter Lakin
• ELAINE REYNOLDS
• Katherine Bishop
• Penelope Cooke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Holden

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• MID CHESHIRE FOODBANK LTD income £313k
• THE HEREFORD FOOD BANK income £389k
• CHEPSTOW FOODBANK income £23k
• EASTERN VALLEY FOODBANK income £182k
• MIDDLESBROUGH FOODBANK income £183k
• CALNE FOODBANK income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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