ERDINGTON FOODBANK

Registered charity 1161641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Food bank

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ERDINGTON 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.

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: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity faces significant financial challenges due to high demand and monthly food costs of approximately £12,000, noting a need to increase financial income. It reports receiving community support and grants from the Trussell Trust, including a Financial Inclusion Grant and funding for warehouse space. The filing does not disclose specific unrestricted reserves figures or a reserves policy target.

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

What the accounts disclose

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• REV Gerard Goshawkchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melvyn Stuart Taylor · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mercy Mbajah
• Rev ANN RICHARDSON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

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 CATERHAM FOODBANK.

• CATERHAM FOODBANK income £73k
• EAST GRINSTEAD FOODBANK income £151k
• HUNSTANTON AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK income £98k
• STAMFORD FOODBANK income £67k
• FYLDE FOOD BANK income £166k
• DUNSTABLE FOODBANK income £150k

Side by side with its peers

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