COLCHESTER FOODBANK

Registered charity 1204958 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIGHTLINGSEA FOODBANK, COLCHESTER CENTRAL FOODBANK, GREENSTEAD FOODBANK, HIGHWOODS FOODBANK, MONKWICK FOODBANK, MYLAND FOODBANK, NEW TOWN FOODBANK, ROWHEDGE FOODBANK, TIPTREE FOODBANK, WIVENHOE FOODBANK

Colchester Foodbank seeks to address food poverty in the local area by giving food parcels to clients who have been issued with a voucher from a professional agency. In addition, we seek to make available signposting from a range of professionals who can advise on debt, housing, benefits, health and wellbeing, budgeting and child welfare.

Objects

3. THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE (3.1):3.1 THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN COLCHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, 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: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £8,649 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £322,689 and total expenditure of £314,040. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £164,961, while £650,000 was designated for property purchases completed in 2026. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention that would require further disclosure regarding the accounts' compliance with statutory requirements.

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.

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
• 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

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• ROL Cruise — “Proudly Supported by ROL Cruise” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Tibberchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Derek Nicol Sutherland
• Frederick Shane Aldons
• John O Brien
• Sabina Hinchliffe

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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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 DORCHESTER FOODBANK.

• DORCHESTER FOODBANK income £42k
• CHICHESTER DISTRICT FOODBANK income £345k
• KENSINGTON & CHELSEA FOODBANK income £202k
• OLDHAM FOODBANK income £479k
• CHEADLE & DISTRICT FOODBANK income £64k
• WEST CHESHIRE FOODBANK income £753k

Side by side with its peers

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