BILLINGHAM AND STOCKTON BOROUGH FOODBANK

Registered charity 1177777 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foodbank collects food from various sources and issues food parcels to individuals and families in crisis, in the Stockton Borough. Partner agencies decide on need and issue vouchers. Staff and volunteers give advice and signpost clients to help address their underlying needs.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY WITHIN THE STOCKTON BOROUGH PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE SUPPLY OF FOOD AND ANY OTHER PROVISION THAT HELPS ALLEVIATE AND REDUCE POVERTY AND HARDSHIP

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £124,091.85 at year-end, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover three months of costs. The charity reported a surplus for the year, increasing its net assets from £295,963.41 to £303,497.39. While the charity faces dependency on external agreements for its future premises, it confirms adequate resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BEVERLEY BURTON
• Emma Radcliffe
• William Andrew Pearce

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

Operates in: Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• BURNGREAVE FOODBANK income £191k
• STOCKPORT FOODBANK income £241k
• GRANTHAM FOODBANK income £279k
• THE BOW FOODBANK LIMITED income £782k
• CARLISLE FOODBANK income £344k
• Newcastle Foodbank income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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