GATESHEAD FOODBANK

Registered charity 1161395 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Gateshead Foodbank is here to help individuals and families in crisis, through the provision of emergency food supplies.

Objects

WITH A STRONG CHRISTIAN ETHOS, TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY IN GATESHEAD BY PROVIDING FOOD AND SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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: Gateshead, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit of £88,124 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £481,272 to £393,148. The trustees report that operating costs increased significantly, particularly due to purchasing food in bulk, which has adversely affected the financial position. Despite this, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Next government must revamp universal credit, says Gateshead Foodbank chief chroniclelive.co.uk · 03/07/2024

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Jane Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• DONALD SINCLAIR · trustee of 1 other charity
• JACQUELINE ELIZABETH BEELEY
• James Christian Wilders
• Robert Brotherston · trustee of 2 other charities
• William John Macdonald

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 UTTLESFORD FOODBANK.

• UTTLESFORD FOODBANK income £193k
• Guildford Food Bank income £179k
• BEDFORD FOODBANK income £623k
• WYTHENSHAWE FOOD BANK income £82k
• CHICHESTER DISTRICT FOODBANK income £345k
• REDBRIDGE FOODBANK income £724k

Side by side with its peers

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