NUNEATON FOODBANK

Registered charity 1159747 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are operating as part of the Trussell Trust Foodbank Network, for the prevention and relief of poverty in Nuneaton and surrounding areas by providing emergency food supplies to individuals in need. We receive regular and generous donations of food from a network of stores, businesses, religious groups and individuals across the town. We distribute from four centres and each opens twice a week.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO, WHICH ARE BASED ON CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, OPERATING AS PART OF THE TRUSSELL TRUST FOODBANK NETWORK, ARE THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN NUNEATON 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.

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: Nuneaton and Bedworth, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£111k

Latest spending

£104k

Registered

2014

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Nuneaton Foodbank ended the period in a secure financial position with an operating surplus of £6,926. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £212,184, which the trustees note would enable them to continue for a while without grants, indicating no imminent threats to continuing as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £212k)

“Reserves are calculated as the expenses that are incurred for 3 months warehousing, staff and transport, also to pay for possible redundancy of our employee.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 60
Government income: £20,157 — grants £20,157 (4); 18% of the £111,187 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 50
Government income: £23,444 — grants £23,444 (4); 20% of the £119,727 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 50
Government income: £4,000 — grants £4,000 (2); 3% of the £126,542 total gross income on the same return

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

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

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)

Register events

Received assets from another charity (20/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (10/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

PHILIP JOHNSONchair
Andrew Peter Fox
CAROLE JEAN LORRAINE SPARKES
Lindsey Alison Margaret Mullin
MRS ANGIE VICKERS B.ED
Mollie White
PHILIP JAMES KEELEY · trustee of 2 other charities
PHILIP JAMES KEELEY

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£111k	£104k
31/12/2024	£120k	£114k
31/12/2023	£127k	£102k
31/12/2022	£109k	£74k
31/12/2021	£76k	£40k

Common questions

Is NUNEATON FOODBANK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that Nuneaton Foodbank ended the period in a secure financial position with an operating surplus of £6,926. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £212,184, which the trustees note would enable them to continue for a while without grants, indicating no imminent threats to continuing as a going concern.

Who funds NUNEATON FOODBANK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NUNEATON FOODBANK as a grant recipient include THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICOLAS, NUNEATON.

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

JIM KEELEY — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICOLAS, NUNEATON

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICOLAS, NUNEATON	FY2025	£23k	Mission Support Partnership

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
MILLS AND REEVE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£19k
THE HEADLEY TRUST	1	£65k
HUMAN APPEAL	1	£53k
GODMANCHESTER BAPTIST CHURCH	1	£31k
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	1	£30k
TOYOTA MANUFACTURING UK CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£5k
YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£3k
THE AYLSHAM AGRICULTURAL SHOW ASSOCIATION LIMITED	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with North Norfolk Foodbank.

North Norfolk Foodbank income £339k
FYLDE FOOD BANK income £166k
HERTFORD AND DISTRICT FOODBANK income £148k
ST NEOTS FOODBANK income £47k
FLINTSHIRE FOODBANK income £124k
HUNSTANTON AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK income £98k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NUNEATON FOODBANK	£111k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
North Norfolk Foodbank FY2025	£339k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FYLDE FOOD BANK FY2025	£166k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HERTFORD AND DISTRICT FOODBANK FY2026	£148k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST NEOTS FOODBANK FY2025	£47k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FLINTSHIRE FOODBANK FY2025	£124k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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