NEWCASTLE STAFFS FOODBANK

Registered charity 1194404 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Newcastle Staffs Foodbank is committed the rights, well-being and safety of children and adults with care and support to who into contact with the foodbank

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN BOROUGH OF NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES 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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £17,814 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £187,256 to £169,442. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £72,887, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £45,000 (three months of running costs). The trustees note that the deficit is being addressed by utilizing reserves built up during the pandemic and implementing new fundraising strategies.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Severn Trent — “Our current partners: Severn Trent” (source page)
• Acadame Training Solutions — “Acadame Training Solutions” (source page)
• Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Council — “Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Council” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev John Beswick Pallisterchair
• Anthony Stephen Jones
• Michelle Catherine Padmos
• Natalie Jane Booth
• Sara Helen Bloomfield

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Newcastle Foodbank.

• Newcastle Foodbank income £1.4m
• EXETER FOOD BANK income £173k
• ST ALBANS AND DISTRICT FOODBANK income £495k
• THE BOW FOODBANK LIMITED income £782k
• WEST NORTHUMBERLAND FOOD BANK income £318k
• COLCHESTER FOODBANK income £392k

Side by side with its peers

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