01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 31 May 2023
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Latest income
- £16,665
- Latest expenditure
- £10,492
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: 130 ASHMEAD ROAD, BEDFORD, MK41 7FD
Website recorded by the regulator: https://ethnicfoodbank.org (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The Ethnic Food Bank is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and registered as a charity by the Charity Commission for England and Wales ,Registered Charity Number: 1203329.Our aim is to combat food poverty by opening a food bank that provides free, nutritionally balanced, familiar, and culturally appropriate emergency ethnic food parcels for those in financial hardships; and subsequent
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Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 April 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 January 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 31 January 2026
- Date Accounts Received
- 31 January 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £16,665
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £10,492
- Fin Period Start Date
- 31 May 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 January 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 31 January 2025
- Date Accounts Received
- 31 January 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £22,838
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £7,105
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 April 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2025
- Ar Due Date
- 31 January 2026
- Ar Received Date
- 31 January 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £16,665
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £10,492
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £3
- Income From Government Grants
- £13,500
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 31 May 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 March 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 31 January 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 31 January 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £22,838
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £7,105
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £3
- Income From Government Grants
- £18,199
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 5
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Bedford
- Welsh Ind
- No
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Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 310
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Other Charitable Activities
- Classification Code
- 203
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- People With Disabilities
- Classification Code
- 306
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Services
- Classification Code
- 202
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Elderly/old People
- Classification Code
- 105
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
- Classification Code
- 101
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- General Charitable Purposes
- Classification Code
- 205
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Classification Code
- 201
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Children/young People
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- ETHNIC FOOD BANK
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2023-05-31T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 31 May 2023
- Charitable Objects
- TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN BEDFORD WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(1)PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD OF ETHNIC ORIGIN.(2)SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND ADVISORY SERVICES.
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Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Risk management
- Policy Name
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Volunteer management
- Policy Name
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Social media policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures