ST ALBANS AND DISTRICT FOODBANK

Registered charity 1158917 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We run a food bank in the St Albans district area.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are the prevention or relief of poverty in particular in St Albans District and surrounding areas. In particular but not exclusively by providing emergency food supplies to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable

Area of benefit: IN ST ALBANS DISTRICT AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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 deficit of £66,992 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £460,686. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £438,410, which is below the stated policy target of £300,000, although the policy specifies holding 9 to 12 months of total expenditure. The charity notes a significant drop in monetary donations and decreasing grant funding from Trussell, but maintains that resources are adequate to continue operations.

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.

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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Albans & District Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~11.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Edward Pontinchair
• Haydar Shawkat
• Kate Wright
• Rachel Hampstead
• Torsten de Riese

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST ALBANS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL.

• ST ALBANS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £347k
• ST ALBANS MASORTI SYNAGOGUE income £367k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ALBAN THE MARTYR SOUTH NORWOOD IN THE DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK income £149k
• LICHFIELD FOODBANK income £178k
• THE BOW FOODBANK LIMITED income £782k
• ST ALBANS OLD PEOPLE'S TRUST income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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