WATFORD FOODBANK AND COMMUNITY RELIEF TRUST

Registered charity 1184482 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide emergency food parcels and support to local Watford people in crisis. We receive non-perishable food donations from the public and make up food parcels which are taken to distribution points around Watford. Clients are given a foodbank voucher by frontline care professionals, which they then exchange for a food parcel at a distribution point.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING IN & AROUND THE WATFORD AREA, THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH FOOD & OTHER ASSISTANCE, AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, IN AN EFFORT TO RESTORE DIGNITY & OFFER HOPE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £437,346, with unrestricted free reserves of £316,323. This figure is above the trustees' stated designated reserve target of £100,000, which was set to cover three to six months of expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, noting sufficient unrestricted reserves to meet unexpected costs.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Watford Foodbank and Community Relief Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 04/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN DAVID BISHOPchair
• ANDREW THOMAS TRANTER
• NICHOLAS JOHN MOORHOUSE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger Thomas Murphy

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORWOOD & BRIXTON FOODBANK LIMITED.

• NORWOOD & BRIXTON FOODBANK LIMITED income £1.2m
• HAYAAT WELFARE TRUST income £451k
• WATFORD AND THREE RIVERS TRUST income £4.5m
• LETCHWORTH FOODBANK income £228k
• WATFORD NEW HOPE TRUST income £3.0m
• GRANTHAM FOODBANK income £279k

Side by side with its peers

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