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Community Food Initiatives North East Limited

SC037833Registered charity from 16 February 2007
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
The Name the Charity is Known By CFINE
Address 4 Poynernook Road
Aberdeen
Postcode AB11 5RW
Website www.cfine.org
Regulatory Type Standard
Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Object:
the company's objects are:- (1) To advance the education and relieve the poverty of residents in the north east of Scotland by promoting healthy eating and making food stuffs and other produce accessible and affordable through community food initiatives (2) To relieve the poverty of residents in the north east of Scotland by encouraging the development of schemes where waste food is minimised by establishing systems to divert food from waste disposal to those individuals in need to protect the natural environment and improve the health of those in need (3) To promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within north east Scotland. (4) To promote and organise activities which improve the environment. (5) To advance and promote health.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The charitable company exists to promote Community Development including education and training, promoting health and well-being, organising volunteering and work experience opportunities around social and enterprise activities, development of schemes to minimise surplus food and to relieve poverty of residents in the north- east of Scotland.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Constitutional Form Date: 16 Feb 2007
Main Operating Location: Aberdeen
Number of Staff: 48
Number of Charity Trustees: 9
Number of Volunteers: over 250
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement"
Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations", "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2021 £2,069,196 £1,541,404 29 Oct 2021 Yes
31 Mar 2022 £1,742,774 £1,619,169 17 Nov 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £2,453,966 £2,546,306 22 Nov 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £2,600,921 £2,693,993 04 Sept 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £2,590,920 £2,526,725 22 Sept 2025 Yes Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green   . If an annual return is late, the box is red   .
Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
John Bone
Lauren Taylor
Hazel Cameron
Lesley Dunbar
Laurence Milne
Amol Deshmukh
David Kilgour
Raymond Cowan
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