LINCOLN COMMUNITY LARDER

Registered charity 1175176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVIDING FOOD TO INDIVIDUALS REFERRED BY AGENCIES WHO UNDERTAKE ASSESSMENTS OF NEED.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN LINCOLN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF BASIC NUTRITIOUS FOOD AND OTHER BASIC AMENITIES.

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £686,478, significantly exceeding the trustees' stated policy target of £30,000. The charity reported a surplus for the year, with income of £115,902 against expenditure of £87,306. However, the trustees identified risks related to rising demand and potential decreases in donations due to the cost of living.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lincoln Community Larder (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NEIL RHODESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANTONY TOMLINSON
• Alan Wilson
• Catherine Sherlock
• DAWN NIGHTINGALE
• David Pemberton
• Harry Campbell
• Jennifer Pemberton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Owen
• Vivianne Bennett
• Wendy Hope
• Wendy Mason

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPERATION COMMUNITY HAMPER.

• OPERATION COMMUNITY HAMPER income £109k
• LINWOOD COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE LTD income £243k
• FOOD AND COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• BURNGREAVE FOODBANK income £191k
• Laurence's Larder income £161k
• GRANTHAM FOODBANK income £279k

Side by side with its peers

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