ALNWICK DISTRICT FOOD BANK

Registered charity 1173294 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Emergency food provision for beneficiaries in the Alnwick district of Northumberland

Objects

THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF POVERTY IN ALNWICK AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY MEANS OF FOOD PROVISION, INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND EDUCATION AND ANY OTHER MEANS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE TRUSTEES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has no paid staff and is run by a volunteer Trustee Board and approximately 50 volunteers. The trustees report declining funding and food donations, noting the cessation of the Household Support Grant from Northumberland County Council. Despite these challenges, the charity continues to support around 80 clients in Alnwick and an average of 14 rural clients in the Coquet Valley.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Donaldson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Frank Smith
• Heather Smith
• Jillian Hewitt
• Marlene Gray
• Susie Scarlott
• Sylvia Allan

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

Operates in: Northumberland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CARLISLE FOODBANK income £344k
• WARWICK DISTRICT FOODBANK income £336k
• ST ALBANS AND DISTRICT FOODBANK income £495k
• Newcastle Foodbank income £1.4m
• WEST NORTHUMBERLAND FOOD BANK income £318k
• STOCKPORT FOODBANK income £241k

Side by side with its peers

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