BEAUTY BANKS

Registered charity 1184944 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Beauty Banks is a charity focused on supporting adults, children and babies living in hygiene poverty in the UK. We supply brand new essential toiletries to charities and other organisations around the country, including food banks, homeless shelters, family support centres, women's refuges, mental health trusts, care leavers' support centres and schools.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE AND FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO), THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY ACROSS THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING TOILETRY AND COSMETIC ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £42,819 for the year ended 28 February 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £26,511. The trustees acknowledge that costs have risen out of line with donations and are focusing on cost containment to stabilize expenditure and rebuild reserves.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Beauty Banks: 'Someone will feel fresher, cleaner, better, because of you' news.sky.com · 24/02/2018

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BEAUTY BANKS (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sue Rissbrookchair
• Joanne Laura Jones
• Robert Leonard Fellows
• Sali Hughes
• Tekenate Adogiye George Spiff

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HAIR AND BEAUTY CHARITY.

• HAIR AND BEAUTY CHARITY income £277k
• THE HARRY AND JANICE BANKS FOUNDATION income £9.4m
• BABY BANK NETWORK income £104k
• THE BABY BANK income £169k
• BEAUTY BEHIND GOSPEL income £168k
• THE HYGIENE BANK income £7.4m

Side by side with its peers

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