Registered charity · Braintree
Braintree Area Foodbank Limited
- 7 trustees
- Income £421k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- www.braintree.foodbank.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Braintree Area Foodbank LTD
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£421k£424k
- 2024£524k£407k
- 2023£380k£310k
Earlier years
- 2022£306k£249k
- 2021£343k£231k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 23%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE CHARITY'S OBJECTIVES ARE THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN BRAINTREE AREA IN PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.
Grants received
16 grants · £198,417 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Trussell · £131,017 (8 grants)
- Essex Community Foundation · £62,000 (3 grants)
- Masonic Charitable Foundation · £5,400 (5 grants)
Most recent
Board analysis
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
- Claire Yvonne Gibson since 2025
- Dale West since 2024
- John Hartwell since 2025
- Lyndon John Hopkins since 2022
- Malcolm Seward since 2023
- Nicholas Clive Vosper since 2024
- Zelma Holt since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Claire Yvonne Gibson since 2025
- Dale West since 2024
- John Hartwell since 2025
- Lyndon John Hopkins since 2022
- Malcolm Seward since 2023
- Nicholas Clive Vosper since 2024
- Zelma Holt since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1148782
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/08/2012
- Companies House
- Company number 08183618 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01376330694
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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