HELPING WHITTLESEY

Registered charity 1205448 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aims of the organisation include receiving and re-distributing surplus food (from retailers, producers and farms) to the local community of Whittlesey and the surrounding villages via our community pantry.Future plans include collecting, storing, repairing and re-distributing household items to the local community of Whittlesey and the surrounding villages (Not active at this current time)

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY REDISTRIBUTING SURPLUS FOOD AND HOUSEHOLD ITEM WASTE THAT WOULD OTHERWISE GO TO LANDFILL.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased by £5,253 and restricted funds increased by £42,073 during the period. The charity reports having cash funds of £5,253 in unrestricted funds and no liabilities or investment assets disclosed in the statement of assets and liabilities.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Fosterchair
• Amanda Villamayor
• Donna Shrimpton
• Kathryn Hammond
• Layla Waters
• Rachael Benstead

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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