SWINDON'S FOOD COLLECTIVE LTD

Registered charity 1180603 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SWINDON FOOD COLLECTIVE, SWINDON FOOD COLLECTIVE LTD

Swindon's Food Collective works towards the prevention or relief of poverty and to preserve and protect good health by providing food and non-alcoholic beverages to those in financial need or poor health in the Swindon and District area of Wiltshire.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH BY PROVIDING FOOD, NON-FOOD AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES TO THOSE IN FINANCIAL NEED OR POOR HEALTH IN THE SWINDON AND DISTRICT AREA OF WILTSHIRE.[NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.]

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted funds of £743,962 against a reserves policy target of nine months of projected operating and development costs. The charity reported a net income surplus of £72,037 for the year, with total funds increasing to £766,407. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Swindon Food Collective (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne-Marie Long
• Claire Louise Pearce
• David Cryer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mollyn Nyasha Butaumocho
• Roseanna Leather
• Sally Austen
• Stephen Lauder
• Steven Hemmings

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

Operates in: Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWINDON DOWN'S SYNDROME GROUP.

• SWINDON DOWN'S SYNDROME GROUP income £55k
• SWANLEY AND DISTRICT FOODBANK income £61k
• CHILTERN FOODBANK income £354k
• Salford Foodbank income £442k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k
• FOOD FOUNDATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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