RUNCORN AND DISTRICT FOODBANK

Registered charity 1169600 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Runcorn and District Foodbank activities are the prevention or relief of poverty - by providing emergency food boxes containing a supply of balanced and nutritional foodstuffs to individuals in need and provides signposting to relevant information and other advisory services. Non-perishable food is donated by the community and is distributed to individuals via seven distribution centres.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THAT PART OF THE BOROUGH OF HALTON IN THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE, WHICH IS SOUTH OF THE RIVER MERSEY, AND THE SURROUNDING AREA OF NORTH CHESHIRE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:(A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD BOXES CONTAINING A SUPPLY OF BALANCED AND NUTRITIONAL FOODSTUFFS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY;(B) THE PROVISION OF OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES;(C) SUPPORTING PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES THAT PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains a going concern and is financially robust, supported by healthy unrestricted reserves. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of £55,000 (equivalent to six months of unrestricted income and contingency funds), while the actual free reserves held in cash and investments total £279,646. The charity received a £20,000 restricted grant from Halton Borough Council and had total receipts of £98,860 against payments of £157,146 for the period.

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
• Investment
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne McPolandchair
• CAROL VEREY
• Matthew Hancock
• Michael Hennessey
• Rev Gillian Younger
• Shelley Brown

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Halton

Income and spending

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