SKELMERSDALE AND DISTRICT FOODBANK

Registered charity 1164302 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SKELMERSDALE FOODBANK

As a Foodbank, we collect and distribute Food.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN WEST LANCASHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THAT ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(1) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.(2) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE, OR SIGNPOSTING TO THE RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £202,956 and total spending was £218,650 for the financial period ending 31 July 2025, resulting in a deficit. The document does not disclose free or unrestricted reserves figures, nor does it state a reserves policy target.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEREK ASHCROFT MBE JPchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Harwood · trustee of 2 other charities
• Melissa Parlour
• Peter Stewart

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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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
• ALNWICK DISTRICT FOOD BANK income £63k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. PAUL SKELMERSDALE income £118k
• DONCASTER FOODBANK (TRUSSELL TRUST) LTD income £151k
• THE BOW FOODBANK LIMITED income £782k
• BILLINGHAM AND STOCKTON BOROUGH FOODBANK income £128k

Side by side with its peers

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