THE COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE

Registered charity 1162887 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Principally provision of a food bank

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE PERSONS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE PADDOCK WOOD AND SURROUNDING AREA, THAT ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A. PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS BOTH TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND ALSO TO OTHER CHARITIES OR ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.B. SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT ADVISORY SERVICES OR INFORMATION AND TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS, SUPPORTED BY CHURCHES AND BUSINESSES IN THE AREA.

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: Tunbridge Wells, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £16,160 for the year, reducing its total funds from £87,729 to £71,569. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £68,577 remain significantly above the stated policy target of £14,621, and the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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.

• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• 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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 08/08/2024, 69 days after the 31/05/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Gill Adelaide Lloyd
• James Seymour Cable
• Peter Bowles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosalynne Tucker
• Terence Michael Meakins

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE STOREHOUSE.

• THE STOREHOUSE income £404k
• VALEHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £234k
• CATERHAM BARRACKS COMMUNITY TRUST income £722k
• FEERING COMMUNITY CENTRE income £70k
• WISBECH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £136k
• LIMOGES CHARITABLE TRUST income £69k

Side by side with its peers

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