EAST YORKSHIRE FOODBANK

Registered charity 1167071 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOLDERNESS FOODBANK

Over 27,600 people live below the poverty line in East Riding of Yorkshire. We provide 3 days' emergency food and support to local men, women and children in crisis. Our vision is to ensure that no-one in East Riding of Yorkshire has to go hungry. We also provide support and advice to help people back to financial stability.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE THAT ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) 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 POVERTYB) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO 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.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £4,032 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total expenditure exceeding total receipts. The trustees confirm that sufficient reserves are held to enable the charity to continue in the event of adverse conditions, noting that unrestricted funds were £55,844 and designated funds for winding up were £55,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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• 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
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Matthewschair
• Andrew Johnson
• Don Hunter
• Helen Sail
• Jeremy Prew
• Judith Margaret Harrison
• Moira Teresa Brown

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK FOODBANK.

• YORK FOODBANK income £310k
• EASTBOURNE FOODBANK income £865k
• WEST CHESHIRE FOODBANK income £753k
• EALING FOODBANK income £770k
• ELY FOODBANK income £432k
• FINCHLEY FOODBANK income £278k

Side by side with its peers

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