GRANTHAM FOODBANK

Registered charity 1195874 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The prevention or relief of poverty in Grantham 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

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN GRANTHAM 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

Registered contact address: South Kesteven, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remained financially able to continue its charitable activities during the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £201,570 at year-end, with a total reserves balance of £251,639. The trustees monitored the financial position carefully, noting that expenditure was controlled and funds used effectively in furtherance of charitable purposes.

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 2 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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
• 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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 08/12/2023, 38 days after the 31/10/2023 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Lugrin
• Jacqueline Gonzalez
• Michelle Anne Elizabeth Feasey
• Pravina Chohan
• Samantha Campbell
• Wendy Bentley

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire · Rutland

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GILLINGHAM FOODBANK.

• GILLINGHAM FOODBANK income £74k
• HAILSHAM FOODBANK income £184k
• YORK FOODBANK income £310k
• LETCHWORTH FOODBANK income £228k
• BOREHAMWOOD FOODBANK income £234k
• NANTWICH FOOD BANK income £58k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.