Registered charity (CIO) · Birkenhead
Wirral Foodbank
- 11 trustees
- Income £470k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Paul Charles FranklinChair · since 2020
- Cherly SharpTrustee · since 2025
- Gillian PetersTrustee · since 2025
- Laura BraddockTrustee · since 2025
- Laura CrossTrustee · since 2021
- Lisa MilnsTrustee · since 2024
- Marie BranchTrustee · since 2026
- Paula SimpsonTrustee · since 2025
- Professor Michael BrownTrustee · since 2025
- Rachel CubbinTrustee · since 2025
- Shahin RahmanTrustee · since 2023
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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Wirral
- Website
- www.wirral.foodbank.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£470k£534k
- 2024£513k£454k
- 2023£341k£340k
Earlier years
- 2022£368k£383k
- 2021£478k£249k
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND SPECIFICALLY THE WIRRAL AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR DISTRESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Paul Charles Franklin Chair since 2020
- Cherly Sharp since 2025
- Gillian Peters since 2025
- Laura Braddock since 2025
- Laura Cross since 2021
- Lisa Milns since 2024
- Marie Branch since 2026
- Paula Simpson since 2025
- Professor Michael Brown since 2025
- Rachel Cubbin since 2025
- Shahin Rahman since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Paul Charles Franklin Chair since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Paul Charles Franklin Chair since 2020
- Gillian Peters since 2025
- Laura Braddock since 2025
- Laura Cross since 2021
- Paula Simpson since 2025
- Professor Michael Brown since 2025
- Rachel Cubbin since 2025
- Shahin Rahman since 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Cherly Sharp since 2025
- Lisa Milns since 2024
- Marie Branch since 2026
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.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1167967
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 30 Jun 2016 as amended on 17 Jul 2019
- Contact on the register
- 01516387090 · manager@wirralfoodbank.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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