FOOD AND FRIENDSHIP

Registered charity 1178067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOVE LUNCHEON CLUB

We are based in Hove and provide a meal on a bi-weekly basis for elderly and isolated people and also for adults with learning disabilities. Community transport is provided if required. Food is largely supplied by Fareshare which helps to tackle food waste. We also run healthy eating cooking clubs.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF, BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO, LOW-COST LUNCH CLUBS. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: OLD AGE, LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL) OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP’ AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT, RELIGION, POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds three months of unrestricted operating costs in reserves, with a total net fund value of £28,448 at the end of the period. The trustees report that resources are adequate to fund ongoing work, and the independent examiner confirmed no material matters were identified that would hinder understanding of the accounts.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gabriella Casemore
• Julia Riches
• KAREN HEAD
• MICHAEL HILL
• Marianne Gina Holgate
• RACHEL ELIZABETH RICHARDS
• Shelley Jane Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vince Young

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).