TRURO FOODBANK

Registered charity 1176281 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN TRURO BY PROVIDING ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE, TO SUPPLY TO BENEFICIARIES, OR THROUGH AGENCY PARTNERS APPROVED BY THE TRUSTEES, FOODBOXES, ENSURING A HEALTHY, BALANCED AND NUTRITIOUS DIET, SUFFICIENT FOR UP TO 3 DAYS.

Objects

1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN TRURO AND SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOODS BY PROVIDING ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED, AND TO CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS, TO SUPPLY TO BENEFICIARIES, EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH AGENCY PARTNERS APPROVED BY THE TRUSTEES, FOOD BOXES CONTAINING PRIMARILY TINNED OR DRIED FOODS, ENSURING A HEALTHY, BALANCED AND NUTRITIOUS DIET, SUFFICIENT FOR UP TO THREE DAYS.2) TO ENGAGE IN ANY OTHER ACTIVITIES CONSISTENT WITH THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE CHARITY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING 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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held a general reserve of £387,535 at the end of the year, with a bank balance of £414,718. The trustees report that income exceeded expenditure by £63,575, resulting in a significant increase in capital held for future premises purchase. The independent examiner confirmed that proper accounting records were kept and no matters required attention to understand the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 04/11/2026, 4 days after the 31/10/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 06/02/2024, 98 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 19/01/2023, 80 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Paul Stonechair
• Joanna Craze
• Rev JILL EDWARDS
• Rev William John Routh
• Riaan Agenbag
• Wendy Elizabeth Joy Vincent
• William Francis Haines

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE FOODBANK CIO.

• NORTH BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE FOODBANK CIO income £855k
• DEVIZES AND DISTRICT FOODBANK income £93k
• THE TRURO DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £8.3m
• TRAFFORD SOUTH FOODBANK income £132k
• CHILTERN FOODBANK income £354k
• HARROW FOODBANK income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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