Registered charity · Norwich

Norwich Food Bank

7 trustees
Income £577k (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Keir Robert HounsomeChair · since 2015
David John OsborneTrustee · since 2023
Fiona Heather HaworthTrustee · since 2020
Guy Warner BeckinghamTrustee · since 2022
Katherine DaviesTrustee · since 2021
Rachael GrahamTrustee · since 2019
Rebecca Joyce ParaschivuTrustee · since 2023

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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People on this board also serve on 5 other charities:

ST Peter's Jessopp Road, (U.R.C./Methodist) Church · 1 shared trustee
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of ST Thomas, Heigham, Norwich · 1 shared trustee
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Taverham · 1 shared trustee
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of ST. Peter Mancroft With ST. John Maddermarket, Norwich · 1 shared trustee
The MSE Charity · 1 shared trustee

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About

What it does: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where: Norfolk
Website: norwich.foodbank.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Norwich Food Bank
Registered: 2011

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£577k£644k
2024£772k£670k
2023£590k£653k

Earlier years

2022£601k£427k
2021£200k£99k

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (BENEFICIARIES) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

7 trustees on the board

5.6y median 5y

average tenure

11y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Keir Robert Hounsome Chair since 2015
Fiona Heather Haworth since 2020
Rachael Graham since 2019

9.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Rachael Graham since 2019
Rebecca Joyce Paraschivu since 2023

Portfolio (5)

Keir Robert Hounsome Chair since 2015
David John Osborne since 2023
Fiona Heather Haworth since 2020
Guy Warner Beckingham since 2022
Katherine Davies since 2021

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 5Religious Activities 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 7Arts and leisure 1Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

incomespending£772k latest income

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.2 in 2020

5 from 4 in 2022

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1143528
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/10/2009
Companies House: Company number 07051996 · Active
Contact on the register: 01603251733 · admin@norwich.foodbank.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
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