THE WAFFLE HUB COMMUNITY CAFE

Registered charity 1202214 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WAFFLE HUB

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from the Burnham On Sea & Highbridge area becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN BURNHAM ON SEA & HIGHBRIDGE, AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY MEANS OF:• THE PROVISION OF FREE MEALS;• SUPPORT WITH COOKERY AND MEAL PREPARATION;• SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES;• THE PROVISION OF BASIC CATERING TRAINING AND BASIC IT SKILLS TRAINING FOR IMPROVED EMPLOYABILITY.

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is reliant on café income and grant funding, with principal risks identified as the loss of grants. Per the trustees' report, all surplus money from café activities is used to continue the growth of activities, and the charity has been able to expand its opening days by utilising received grants.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Waffle Hub (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Conor Furie
• Geoffrey Harold Stait
• John Kempton
• Marian Josephine Kingsbury · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Jacobs · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).