RINGWOOD FOODBANK

Registered charity 1206403 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The prevention or relief of poverty in Ringwood, Fordingbridge, Verwood and such wider area as may seem appropriate from time to time by providing donations, items and services to individuals in need and or charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty and in particular by providing emergency food supplies and to help those in crisis including signposting to other agencies

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ('THE OBJECTS') ARE:THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN RINGWOOD, FORDINGBRIDGE AND VERWOOD, AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OR SUCH WIDER AREA AS MAY SEEM APPROPRIATE FROM TIME TO TIME BY PROVIDING DONATIONS, ITEMS, AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY AND IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES AND TO HELP THOSE IN CRISIS INCLUDING SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER AGENCIES

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total bank balances increased to £204,588, with unrestricted balances at £202,607. Total receipts for the year were £108,034, a decrease from the prior year, primarily due to reduced grant funding from Trussell. The trustees confirm the charity intends to continue operations indefinitely and have had its accounts independently examined rather than audited.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ringwood Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Richard Alexander Vanderveldechair
• Anita Louise Steel
• Anthony Richard Brown
• CLAIRE MARIE SKELLEY
• Catriona Ann Duncan
• Deborah Anne Spender
• Jonathan David Gibson
• Philip Stephen Boyce

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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