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# UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
12865541 (England and Wales)

## Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 September 2025

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 1 October 2024

## End date: 30 September 2025

# UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2025

Balance sheet |
Additional notes |
Balance sheet notes |
Community Interest Report |

# UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 30 September 2025

| Notes | 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | --- | ---
|  | £ | £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets: |  | 0 | 0
Tangible assets: | 3 | 14,448 | 16,109
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total fixed assets: |  | 14,448 | 16,109
Current assets
Stocks: |  | 0 | 0
Debtors: |  | 0 | 0
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 6,079 | 5,963
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total current assets: |  | 6,079 | 5,963
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 0 | 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: |  | 0 | 0
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 6,079 | 5,963
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 20,527 | 22,072
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: |  | 0 | 0
Provision for liabilities: |  | 0 | 0
Accruals and deferred income: |  | 0 | 0
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | 20,527 | 22,072
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 20,527 | 22,072
Total members' funds: |  | 20,527 | 22,072

The notes form part of these financial statements

# UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

## Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 September 2025 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 17 March 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Daniel Manvell
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2025

- ## 1. Accounting policies

  Basis of measurement and preparation

  These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

  Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy

  Buildings, fixtures and fittings are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation of assets, less their estimated residual values, over their expected useful lives on the following basis: Buildings - straight line basis over 15 years (shipping container, lean to structure, and external works). Fixtures and fittings - straight line basis over 10 years.

# UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2025 | 2024
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 0 | 0

# UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2025

## 3. Tangible assets

| Land & buildings | Plant & machinery | Fixtures & fittings | Office equipment | Motor vehicles | Total
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Cost | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £
At 1 October 2024 | 14,145 |  | 4,184 |  |  | 18,329
Additions |  |  |  |  |  |
Disposals |  |  |  |  |  |
Revaluations |  |  |  |  |  |
Transfers |  |  |  |  |  |
At 30 September 2025 | 14,145 |  | 4,184 |  |  | 18,329
Depreciation |  |  |  |  |  |
At 1 October 2024 | 1,741 |  | 479 |  |  | 2,220
Charge for year | 943 |  | 380 |  |  | 1,323
On disposals |  |  |  |  |  |
Other adjustments |  |  | 338 |  |  | 338
At 30 September 2025 | 2,684 |  | 1,197 |  |  | 3,881
Net book value |  |  |  |  |  |
At 30 September 2025 | 11,461 |  | 2,987 |  |  | 14,448
At 30 September 2024 | 12,404 |  | 3,705 |  |  | 16,109

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### UCKFIELD COMMUNITY FRIDGE CIC

### Company Number: 12865541 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 30 September 2025

Company activities and impact

The community interest company runs Uckfield Community Fridge, which works to reduce food waste and poverty on a not-for-profit basis. We are an award-winning community interest company, now in our fourth full year of operations. Our total number of visiting households has increased to 29,642, with the total amount of food that we have distributed - and which would have otherwise gone to waste - reaching 91,425kg. 2024-2025 has been our busiest year to date, with 28 tonnes of food redistributed across the year, including 14 tonnes between May and August 2025 alone. We are incredibly pleased with this continued support, both that we are able to provide to residents, but also that has been shown to us. This year, we focused on our core functions, consolidating over a period of change for the company. We received several unrestricted grants which helped us to maintain our operations. We continue to apply for and receive grant funding, which is our only source of funding in addition to donations. We would like to thank the Chalk Cliff Trust, Blackboys Church of England Primary School, Uckfield Bonfire and Carnival Society, East Grinstead Bookshop in association with Christina Coleman, Persimmon Homes, and our private donors for their support. These unrestricted grants have helped us maintain our work alongside healthy reserves as costs and inflation have increased. In addition to five voluntary directors, our number of volunteers has continued to remain relatively steady at approximately 25. They perform a variety of roles including serving visitors in the fridge, as well as collecting and delivering donated food. We would like to thank our volunteers and recognise the time they provide to support the community fridge. Two of our key directors, Amy Fieldhouse and Tim Fieldhouse, resigned in April 2025. Amy was the driving force in establishing the fridge, and it would not be in existence were it not for her passion, hard work, and care for others. Tim played a key role behind the scenes before joining the Board as Chair in June 2022. Both Amy and Tim were vital members of the team, and we thank them sincerely for their dedication to the fridge since its founding. To ensure continuity for the fridge, three new directors were appointed in March 2025: Vanessa Sutcliffe, Eunice Gee, and Alison Harris. All three joined the Board approximately 5 weeks before Amy and Tim left, allowing time for an induction and handover of key responsibilities and to maintain good governance. All have been volunteers with the fridge, maintaining our record of recruiting directors from our volunteers. We are delighted to have their valuable experience and enthusiasm on the Board.

Consultation with stakeholders

The community interest company's stakeholders are residents of Uckfield and visitors to the fridge, our volunteers, local food donors in the area, as well as our grant funders. The directors of the company have lived in and around Uckfield for a number of years and maintain a dialogue with their neighbours and residents. We ask everyone using the fridge to provide their postcode, so that we can understand where our users are coming from. We also have a comments section, which we regularly review. This helps us to maintain a profile of our visitors' locations and what they value about our service. We have continued to engage in community events, such as the Festival of Christmas Trees at Holy Cross Church, Uckfield Town Council’s EcoEXPO, and delivering talks to community groups including the Manor Park and Hempstead Fields Residents Association. Our social media is updated several times a week and this provides a further opportunity for communication with residents and fridge users. Our website continues to be a popular tool to reach residents, business donors, and new volunteers who do not use social media. Our volunteers continue to regularly meet socially and there is open communication between the volunteers and directors. We regularly provide feedback and thanks to our food donors through open communication with their leadership teams and our directors. Our grant funders are updated about our work via our grant monitoring reports.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
17 March 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Daniel Manvell
Status: Director