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Registered charity (CIO) · Chester

West Cheshire Foodbank

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £753k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Cheshire West & Chester
Website
www.westcheshire.foodbank.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£753k£734k
  • 2024£739k£785k
  • 2023£839k£667k
Earlier years
  • 2022£273k£169k
  • 2021£438k£188k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE CHESTER, ELLESMERE PORT, NESTON AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS, BY MEANS OF A)IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED IN CHESTER, ELLESMERE PORT, NESTON AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS; B) SHARING FOOD SUPPLIES WITH CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY PRIMARILY IN CHESTER, ELLESMERE PORT, NESTON AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS, BUT ALSO ENGLAND AND WALES; C) COMMISSIONING AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH INTO CAUSES AND ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY PRIMARILY FOOD POVERTY; D) ANY OTHER SIMILAR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Grants received

14 grants · £486,064 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

2
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7

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

Education 2Health and social care 2

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£753k 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.

9.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.1 in 2021

4 from 5 in 2023
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
1150934
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED ON 22/02/2013AMENDED ON 10/12/2013AMENDED ON 02 MAY 2017
Contact on the register
0151 355 7730 · info@westcheshire.foodbank.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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