FARESHARE NORTH EAST

Registered charity 1189901 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN NORTH EAST ENGLAND BY REDISTRIBUTING SURPLUS PRODUCE (IN PARTICULAR FOOD) TO ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, HEALTH-RELATED OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, AND THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN; AND THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH REDUCTION OF FOOD WASTE

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN NORTH EAST ENGLAND BY REDISTRIBUTING SURPLUS PRODUCE (IN PARTICULAR FOOD) TO ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, HEALTH-RELATED OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, AND THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN; ANDB) THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE REDUCTION OF FOOD WASTE.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a substantial deficit for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a net outgoing of resources before transfers of £101,100. To cover this deficit, the charity utilized its existing reserves, reducing total unrestricted funds from £293,957 to £194,946. The trustees note that the challenging fundraising environment is expected to continue, though they have implemented strategies to diversify income sources.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/03/2021 (received 14/02/2022, 14 days after the 31/01/2022 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 — FareShare North East (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Tipladychair
• Antonia Sintra Brindle
• Carol Butts
• Catharine Mitchell
• Catherine Louise Duhaut
• Craig Bankhead · trustee of 2 other charities
• Harry Barham
• Matthew John Stephenson
• Natalie Louise Perkins
• Navid Moalemi
• Susan Catherine Brown

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAMBLETON FOODSHARE.

• HAMBLETON FOODSHARE income £112k
• NORTH EAST DIVERSITY EDUCATION AND SOLIDARITY income £183k
• GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST income £8.2m
• NAJAT FOUNDATION income £31k
• THE NEWSTAR FOUNDATION income £260k
• WEST CHESHIRE FOODBANK income £753k

Side by side with its peers

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