HELP IN THE COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1166505 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEDWAY FOODBANK

Help in the Community is the charity responsible for Medway Foodbank, which operates as part of the Trussell Trust, a national network whose aim is to end UK food poverty. Clients access the foodbank via a voucher system. Vouchers are issued in over 100 partner agencies across the Medway towns. These are redeemed in one of 9 centres, open over 6 days of the week.

Objects

THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF POVERTY, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN MEDWAY AND NORTH KENT THROUGH: THE PROVISION OF FREE EMERGENCY FOOD, AND PARTNERSHIP WITH 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: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported unrestricted reserves of £309,049 against a stated policy target of maintaining three to six months of expenses in reserve. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with the examiner reporting no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Alphatrack Systems — “Current funders Alphatrack Systems” (source page)

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Clare Westchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAMES MCGLASHAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Tottman
• Simon Charles Hart
• Susan Lynn Franks

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE TRUSSELL TRUST income £62.8m
• MANCHESTER CENTRAL FOODBANK income £506k
• HINCKLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION (HCCA) income £260k
• SOUTH COTSWOLDS FOODBANK income £368k
• TAFF-ELY FOODBANK income £233k
• NUNEATON FOODBANK income £111k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.