BANKTHEFOOD

Registered charity 1194167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve persons in the UK that are in financial hardship through a free app, that aims to link shoppers with their local supermarkets and food banks to make sure that the donations that food banks receive are always plentiful, relevant and consistent.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF AN APP TO AID THE DONATION OF EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED AND/OR FOR DISTRIBUTION BY 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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maldon, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had a surplus income over expenditure of £23,934.44 for the year ended 30 March 2025, resulting in a closing bank balance of £37,283.76. The trustees confirm that the charity held unrestricted reserves at the year end and prepared the accounts on a going concern basis. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 26/02/2024, 26 days after the 31/01/2024 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 — BanktheFood (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Springchair
• Aikta Hancock
• Daniel Owen
• David Mills

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COUNTRY FOOD TRUST.

• THE COUNTRY FOOD TRUST income £649k
• BRIDGEND FOODBANK income £253k
• Food Bank Aid income £775k
• SHERBORNE FOOD BANK income £53k
• BUCKINGHAM EMERGENCY FOOD APPEAL income £175k
• BRIDPORT FOOD BANK income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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