LOVE GLASTONBURY

Registered charity 1198035 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Love Glastonbury exists to - alleviate food poverty; and reduce our environmentalimpact - for those living in, or resorting to, the town of Glastonbury and surroundingenvirons.We do this through redirecting fresh food daily that would otherwise be going to landfillto our community fridge and offering a heavily subsidised/free-to-use communitypantry stocked with long shelf-life food.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN GLASTONBURY BY PROVIDING ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR OTHER CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUPLIC BY:A) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCESB) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted cash reserves of £25,528, which the trustees state equate to approximately six months of operating costs, meeting their policy target of 3-6 months. During the year, the charity spent £36,491 against income of £28,957, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £7,534. The accounts were independently examined with no material matters reported.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr MIRANDA MILLAN
• Elizabeth Ann Pearson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Juliet Darnell
• Martin Hayes

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GLASTONBURY BRIDGING THE GAP.

• GLASTONBURY BRIDGING THE GAP income £33k
• THE GLASTONBURY TRUST CIO income £91k
• Livingston Charitable Trust income £489k
• GLOUCESTER FOODBANK income £561k
• THE LOVINGTON FOUNDATION income £272k
• GLASTONBURY MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK income £8k

Side by side with its peers

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