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Bo'ness Storehouse Foodbank SCIO

Also known as: The Storehouse

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC045804
Status
Active
Registered
July 15, 2015
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
Unit 7
Links Court
Bo'ness
EH51 9UD

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

To relieve those in need of support to help reduce hardship and provide beneficial supplies to improve their health and family lifestyle. To advance goodwill and involvement of the whole community and encourage civic pride. We deliver to families and single people who live in Bo’ness and are struggling to afford to buy food. Our clients are referred through various ways, Council, Health Visitor, school, Salvation Army, GP Surgery. Every Thursday we deliver to our clients a bag of dried food, a bag of frozen meals, cereal and whatever is delivered from Cyrenians on the Wednesday and other fresh products we have been donated from local supermarkets. We aim to deliver enough meals to allow the families or single clients to be able to feed themselves for 5 days. At Christmas we deliver a hamper to our clients and receive referrals for households who would benefit for assistance with a Christmas Hamper delivery but doesn’t require assistance through out the year.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Older People','People with disabilities or health problems','People with a particular ethnic or racial origin','Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: The organisation's charitable purposes are: to relieve the inhabitants of Bo'ness and the surrounding areas who experience poverty. and to donate to those in need by reason of age, ill health,disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

Geography

Main operating location
Falkirk
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Dec. 31, 2025 £13,305 £12,582
Dec. 31, 2024 £10,381 £14,053
Dec. 31, 2023 £23,538 £14,349
Dec. 31, 2022 £16,904 £16,968
Dec. 31, 2021 £19,640 £17,242