EASTLEIGH BASICS BANK

Registered charity 1158825 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's objects are the relief of poverty and financial hardship for public benefit in Eastleigh and surrounding areas in particular but not exclusively by providing food to individuals and families in need. In furtherance of these objects, the charity operates a food bank in Eastleigh town centre, open to the public two days a week throughout the year.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT IN EASTLEIGH AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING FOOD TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £132,983, which the trustees state are comfortably within their policy target of three to nine months of expenditure. The financial position improved significantly from a deficit in the prior year, resulting in a net income of £35,979 for 2025. The charity operates entirely on a volunteer basis with no paid staff or pension liabilities.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DANIEL MARK BRAINchair
• Anthony Gallagher
• Christopher John Goodhead · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID NORMAN KEATING
• DOMINIC HOOLEY

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EASTLEIGH YOUTH & COMMUNITY TRUST.

• EASTLEIGH YOUTH & COMMUNITY TRUST income £505k
• EASTBOURNE FOODBANK income £865k
• EALING FOODBANK income £770k
• EASTLEIGH CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £439k
• EASTLEIGH MASJID AND ISLAMIC CENTRE income £323k
• ELY FOODBANK income £432k

Side by side with its peers

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