DONCASTER FOODBANK (TRUSSELL TRUST) LTD

Registered charity 1171639 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The distribution of a balanced food parcel which will last three days.

Objects

'THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE IN [INSERT AREA OF BENEFIT] AND THE SURROUNDING AREA OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 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 SERVICESAND TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS, SUPPORTED BY CHURCHES IN (AREA OF BENEFIT).

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 the charity reported a net deficit of £51,451 for the year ended 31 October 2025, a reversal from the previous year's surplus. Despite the deficit, the trustees report a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £166,710, which exceeds their stated policy target of six months' operating costs (approximately £80,000).

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10443311

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HARRISON, Helen Mary — director, appointed 26/02/2026on trustee list
• SHAW, Geoffery — director, appointed 26/02/2026not on trustee list
• LAMB, Martin — director, appointed 26/01/2026on trustee list
• DICKSON, Anna — director, appointed 28/09/2024on trustee list
• JORDAN, Patricia — director, appointed 13/12/2022on trustee list
• SNELSON, William Mark — director, appointed 06/09/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Dickson
• Geoff Shaw
• Helen Harrison · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Lamb · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patricia Jordan
• William Mark Snelson

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

Operates in: Doncaster

Income and spending

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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
• WARWICK DISTRICT FOODBANK income £336k
• NUNEATON FOODBANK income £111k
• NORWOOD & BRIXTON FOODBANK LIMITED income £1.2m
• Newcastle Foodbank income £1.4m
• DUNSTABLE FOODBANK income £150k

Side by side with its peers

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