BINGLEY COMMUNITY KITCHEN

Registered charity 1194821 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides a range of food through a weekly FoodSavers Market Stall for needy families and, where required, educational opportunities for parents and children to cook together.

Objects

1.TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND THE ELDERLY WITHIN BINGLEY WHICH IS WITHIN BRADFORD DISTRICT BY PROVIDING GOODS AND SERVICES THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD.2.TO IMPROVE THROUGH EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES BY RESPONDING TO THEIR ONGOING IDENTIFIED NEEDS.

Area of benefit: WITHIN BINGLEY WHICH IS WITHIN BRADFORD DISTRICT

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 unrestricted reserves at year-end were £43,696, which exceeds the trustees' prudent target of £40,000 set due to uncertainty regarding future government grant funding. The charity reported total income of £58,576 against expenditure of £48,566 for the year, resulting in a net surplus. All personnel working for the charity are volunteers, with no paid staff disclosed.

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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE CLARKchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANE GLENDINNING
• Jacqueline Chang
• Linda Diane Whitehead
• Michael Christopher Heaton
• Rev Andrew John Clarke
• Rev Martyn Graham Weaver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Elizabeth Mendoza · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bradford City

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