NORTH COTSWOLD FOODBANK

Registered charity 1181310 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1) The prevention or relief of poverty in Cotswold District and Tewkesbury Borough areas by providing: grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.2) The prevention or relief of poverty in other areas of the UK by working cooperatively with other Foodbank charities to donate or receive surplus food

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN COTSWOLD DISTRICT AND TEWKESBURY BOROUGHAREAS BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OROTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.2) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN OTHER AREAS OF THE UK BY WORKING COOPERATIVELYWITH OTHER FOODBANK CHARITIES TO DONATE OR RECEIVE SURPLUS FOOD STOCK WHERE THERE ARESHORTAGES, OR IN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE SURPLUS STOCK WOULD OTHERWISE BECOME OUT OF DATEAND UNUSABLE. OBJECT 2 IS RESTRICTED TO STOCK ONLY AND NO FISCAL ASSISTANCE WILL BE OFFEREDOUTSIDE THE AREA DESCRIBED IN OBJECT 1 ABOVE.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FORTHE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES ANDTRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERNIRELAND) 2008]

Area of benefit: IN COTSWOLD DISTRICT AND TEWKESBURY BOROUGH AREAS

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £277,430, resulting in an operating profit of £3,062. The trustees report that total capital and assets increased to £312,008, describing the charity's finances as remaining in a healthy state. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £312,008, which is above its stated policy target of a minimum of £100,000.

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
• 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 30/12/2023, 60 days after the 31/10/2023 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 — North Cotswolds Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• North Cotswold Rotary — “North Cotswold Rotary has come up trumps with a £654 donation used to fund two new iPads for North Cotswold Foodbank.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Garry Dickchair
• Gillian Patricia Donovan
• Jenny Rachel Jones
• Laura Crabb
• Lucy Elizabeth Deacon
• Michael Alan Sibthorpe
• Michele Phillips

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• TEWKESBURY FOODBANK income £152k
• NORTHERN DEVON FOODBANK income £236k
• STOKE-ON-TRENT FOODBANK income £397k
• BOGNOR REGIS FOODBANK income £223k
• DORCHESTER FOODBANK income £42k
• BRADFORD NORTH FOODBANK income £186k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.