HOPE FOR FOOD

Registered charity 1162039 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hope for Food supplies clothing, boots, toiletries, hot food, soup, sandwiches, fruit & veg, tea and coffee to the homeless through community meals in Bournemouth. We also help struggling families with weekly food hampers, clothing and occasionally household items.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN BOURNEMOUTH 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: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is run entirely by volunteers with no staff salaries, resulting in zero employee emoluments. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £244,819, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months' running costs (£27,000). The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to meet anticipated expenditure over the next three years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MLW Accountants. 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 — Hope for Food (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Craig Richard Stokeschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Brian Sutherns
• David Alan Clayton
• Mary Duncan
• Pauline Stevenson
• Sandra Marion Smith
• Sian Christina McKenna

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

Operates in: Bournemouth

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 BREAD OF HOPE.

• BREAD OF HOPE income £67k
• HOPE FOR MANKIND income £1.2m
• HOPE FOOD NORTH BIRMINGHAM income £88k
• HOPE (PORTSMOUTH) income £610k
• HOPE FOR TOMORROW GLOBAL income £259k
• HOPE income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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