Start here. This was our first post: two lines of welcome, published on 17 January 2024. In October 2026 we rewrote it as the place to begin. It covers what we have found, where to read it, and how to check it for yourself.
This is not Jayne’s Baby Bank’s website. It is an independent investigation into it.
Jayne’s Baby Bank has run shops, a “FREE foodbank” and donation appeals across south-east Wales, and for years it called itself a charity. It is run by Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, who trades as Jayne Price. Since January 2024 we have checked what she tells the public against the record. That means the register of charities, Companies House, the courts, councils, the NHS, the regulators, and her own posts, which we have kept.
The short version
- It is not a charity. Jayne’s Baby Bank has never been on the register of charities, and an application to register it was refused in 2023. Since November 2025 a community interest company has carried the name. A CIC is not a charity.
- She has used many names. Leases, court judgments and council letters hold at least seven versions of her name. Two County Court judgments, for £7,141 and £277, are in names she has said are not hers.
- The qualifications did not check out. Neither of her names is on the nursing register. Eight NHS bodies in Wales have answered our questions, and not one holds a record of any arrangement with Jayne’s Baby Bank.
- The backers she named said no. The Trussell Trust, FareShare, the Baby Bank Alliance and social services have each told us they have no such link with Jayne’s Baby Bank.
- Every shop front has gone. Between 2023 and 2026 the landlords of five of its shops took them back. The one unit left, the donation centre, is under a fire service prohibition.
- Nobody can see the money. It has never published accounts. We rebuilt four years of running costs from leases and rates: £186,000 to £242,000. Of the public funding claimed, we can confirm £1,000.
- It raised safeguarding questions. We reported that a man jailed in 2013 for child sex offences worked and lived at its Pontypool premises; she denies he lived there. Within hours, her page published a fabricated message branding five local people paedophiles.
In this guide
Who runs it, and her names
Her birth was registered as Carrie-Anne Ridsdale. She trades as Jayne Price, and since 7 November 2025 Jayne Price has been a director of JAYNE’S BABY BANK C.I.C., company number 16838920, with Gail Jenkins.
The paperwork tells a longer story. She signed the 2022 lease for a unit in Aberbargoed, as a deed, as “Ceri-Ann Ridsdale”. That is the name on the £7,141 judgment that followed, which she later said was “not even under my name”. She signed the 2024 lease for 6 Commercial Street, Pontypool, as Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, a name she has publicly denied is hers.
People may lawfully use more than one name. These are the names under which leases were signed and judgments entered, and a search under Jayne Price would not find them.
- January 2024, updated October 2026The Curious Case of Jayne’s Baby BankOur first full report, and the one that got people talking. It sets out her names on paper and what Jayne’s Baby Bank became.
- September 2026“Not Even My Name”: Carrie-Anne Ridsdale Signed the Commercial Street LeaseThe Pontypool lease, signed in front of a witness, in the name she denies.
- October 2026She Said the CCJ Wasn’t Her Name. Here’s Her Signature.The Aberbargoed lease, page by page, and the £7,141 judgment that followed it.
- January 2026Court Judgment Registered Against ‘Jayne’s Baby Bank’ Using Name VariantThe £7,141 judgment on the court register, against “Ceri-Ann Ridsdale” trading as Jayne’s Baby Bank.
- May 2026New CCJ Reveals Carrie-Anne Ridsdale Identity Previously DeniedA second judgment, for £277, in the name she had denied: Carrie-Anne Ridsdale.
- July 2024Pontypool Unmasked: Meet ‘The Tenant’The 2023 lease for 5 Crane Street names the tenant as “Miss Jayne-Anne Carrie-Anne Ridsdale”. The name Price is not on it.
Charity, company and money
Jayne’s Baby Bank has never been a registered charity. Its signs and posts said “charity”, and in 2024 a food business registration gave its charity number as “Awaiting”. An application to register it with the Charity Commission was refused in 2023.
In November 2025 a community interest company was formed instead. A CIC is a company. It has no charity number, it answers to the CIC Regulator, not the Charity Commission, and it does not get a charity’s tax reliefs. Its first accounts are not due until 7 August 2027.
No accounts have ever been published, so we rebuilt the running costs ourselves, from leases, rating lists and her own posts. Rent, rates, electricity, water, trade waste and insurance from September 2022 to September 2026 come to between £186,000 and £242,000. At least £44,928 of public funding has been claimed. The only grant we can confirm is £1,000, from Pontypool Community Council in November 2024. In February 2026 the same council turned down a further request.
- January 2024, updated October 2026Jayne’s Baby Bank Charity StatusThe first question we asked, and the answer, then and now: no.
- October 2026£186,000 Before a Single NappyFour years of running costs, rebuilt month by month from the documents, because no accounts exist.
- August 2025JBB’s Registration ‘Awaiting’: The Red Flag They Can’t Talk AwayHer own food business registration, released under Freedom of Information, calls it “A charity”. The charity number: “Awaiting”.
- March 2025Unveiled: The Attempt to Erase Charity Shop Status“We are not a charity shop,” she posted. Her registered trade mark still reads “JAYNE’S BABY BANK & CHARITY SHOP”.
- May 2025PayPal Listings Reveal Jayne’s Baby Bank Continues Charity ClaimsTwo donation pages, one promising “100% of profit goes towards the charity”.
- November 2025Jayne’s Baby Bank C.I.C. – New Incorporation Raises Familiar QuestionsThe day the company was formed, and what a community interest company is, and is not.
- April 2026Pontypool Council Declines Funding After Due Diligence AssessmentAfter its checks, the community council minuted that it was “not the type of organisation that should receive funding”.
Nurse, midwife, NHS: the claims
In July 2023 she wrote: “I went to Uni at 39 and got my degree and diploma in nursing and bio chem! and now I’m doing a PHD”. By September 2026 her profile read “Former Student Nurse at Cardiff University”. Neither Carrie-Anne Ridsdale nor Jayne Price is on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, and no degree certificate has been produced.
Her page said Jayne’s Baby Bank was “supported by Public Health Wales and Aneurin Bevan Health Board”. We put the question to every NHS body in Wales. Eight have answered, and not one holds a record of any arrangement with it. Aneurin Bevan found the books she said were “donated to the NHS staff” on one ward, “stored in the ward manager’s office and had not been issued to patients”.
- September 2026Carrie-Anne Ridsdale / Jayne Price: The Changing Academic RecordEvery version of the degree, in order, and two “different” 1996 certificates that turned out to be one photograph.
- October 20268 NHS Bodies Asked. None Has a Record of Jayne’s Baby BankThe NHS support she claimed, and what the health boards said in writing.
- September 2025, updated October 2026Twelve Years, Level 3, “Qualified”. Her School Job, Checked.The Education Workforce Council says she is not, and has never been, registered with it.
- June 2025Fact-Checking Carrie-Anne Ridsdale’s Alleged ‘BA Hons Nursing’ DegreeCardiff University does not offer a BA (Hons) in Nursing. What a nursing degree there actually involves.
- January 2026From Teacher Claims to B&Q Evidence: What the Deleted Posts RevealThe teaching years she describes, and the job her own deleted posts show.
The organisations that said no
For years her posts named the organisations behind her. We asked them.
The Trussell Trust: “Jayne’s Baby Bank is not a Trussell foodbank and has never been.” The Baby Bank Alliance: “This baby bank is not a member.” Caerphilly social services told us they do not refer families to it. Caerphilly Cares, the council’s support service, confirmed that Jayne’s Baby Bank “is not supported by their service”. FareShare: it “is not, and has never been, a member”. The Salvation Army’s trading company: “not authorised to collect our donations”. In 2024 the Fundraising Regulator confirmed it was not registered with them.
She said the Financial Conduct Authority had authorised her to use the word “charity”. The FCA does not regulate charities or their names. She said she had “a raffle license and a lottery license”. Caerphilly council’s records show no licence of any kind held at her Blackwood shop between October 2023 and July 2025.
- September 2025The Trussell Trust Rejects Jayne’s Baby Bank ClaimsWhat she said about the Trussell Trust on video, and what the Trust said in writing.
- October 2025Jayne’s Baby Bank’s Facebook FAQ vs. the Official RecordHer page’s own questions and answers, set one by one against the FCA, the council and social services.
- October 2025Whistleblower Files: Jayne’s Baby Bank, Olio, and the Hidden Food SkimWhere the food came from, and FareShare’s answer: never a member.
- October 2025Stealth Charity Branding: Jarmani’s Boutique Sign Found on Salvation Army Clothing BankA “Jarmani’s Charity Boutique” sign on a Salvation Army clothing bank, and what the Salvation Army said.
- July 2025“The Only FCA-Approved Charity?” Jaynes Baby Bank False Claim ExposedThree years of claims about the Financial Conduct Authority, set against what the FCA actually does.
- August 2025Not on the Map: The Baby Bank Alliance Denial“A registered baby bank under three councils”, she said. The Baby Bank Alliance says it is not a member.
- July 2024JBB Referral Backing Denied by Social ServicesShe said social services had asked her to make referrals. Their reply says otherwise.
- July 2024Caerphilly County Borough Council Confirms Lack of Support for JBBThe council’s own support service, in writing: no relationship.
- August 2025No Licence, No Record, No Raffle Permission: What the FOI RevealedThe raffle and lottery licences she said she held, and the council’s Freedom of Information answer.
- October 2024Jayne’s Baby Bank and Its Compliance with Fundraising Regulations“Currently registering with the Fundraising Regulatory”, she posted. The Regulator: not registered.
The shops, one by one
By June 2025 Jayne’s Baby Bank was running six premises at once, across Caerphilly county and Torfaen. Then they went, one after another.
- Aberbargoed, November 2023. The landlord’s agents re-entered the unit. A £7,141 judgment followed and is still unpaid.
- Brynmawr, July 2024. The shop closed seven months after she signed for it.
- Blackwood, July 2025. She gave the shop back, she said, over a “window tax”. The landlord said it had been left “completely insecure”.
- Caerphilly, May 2026. In her words: “The landlord changed the locks on us when we failed to pay rent”.
- Risca, June 2026. A notice at the shop: “repossessed by the landlord due to non-payment of rent.”
- 5 Crane Street, Pontypool, August 2026. The owner took possession. The lease had ended seven months earlier, and the fire service had prohibited the shop’s use in March.
- 6 Commercial Street, Pontypool, September 2026. The landlord took it back, 324 days after the lease expired. Police were called there twice in 21 days.
The one unit left, the Newbridge Road donation centre, is also the company’s registered office. It has been under a fire service prohibition since 31 March 2026. In October 2026 her son was photographed outside Principality House in Rogerstone, a former factory advertised at £30,000 a year. She has not confirmed taking it.
- September 2026Four Shutters in Four Months: 6 Commercial Street ClosesThe last shop front, the landlord’s notice, and every closure before it.
- August 20265 Crane Street: The End of the Road for Jayne’s Baby BankThe first Pontypool shop, the lease that ran out, and the post that said “No eviction”.
- June 2026Lights Out on Commercial Street: The JBB Warrant ExplainedSSE’s warrant, the cut-off, and the bill in a dissolved company’s name.
- April 202672 Pages of FOI Disclosures Expose Widespread Fire Safety Failings at Jayne’s Baby BankThe fire service’s own records: risk assessments, case notes and the prohibitions.
- July 2025Blackmail, Window Taxes, and Pigeon Poo: The Blackwood Jayne’s Baby Bank ExitWhy she said she gave the Blackwood shop back, and what the landlord said she left behind.
- October 2026Told Not to Enter. Twice in 21 Days, Police Were CalledWhat happened at 6 Commercial Street after the landlord changed the locks.
- October 2026“Something Big Is Coming.” Does Her New Landlord Know?Principality House in Rogerstone, and what a new landlord might want to know.
Safeguarding and harassment
In September 2026 we reported that a man jailed in 2013 for child sex offences had been working and living at the Pontypool premises. She denies that he lived there. Within hours, her page published screenshots from a misspelled “Dank Drangon” page that branded five local people a “child trafficking ring”. The real Dank Dragon disowned it the same day. We had seen the method before, in 2025.
In August 2026 she wrote that no one works or volunteers with her “who hasn’t had an enhanced DBS check”. Since April 2024 she has announced a free Lego club for children 51 times, and not one announcement gives a start date.
- September 2026Convicted Child Sex Offender Working and Living at Jayne’s Baby BankWho he is, what the court ordered in 2013, and where he has been seen.
- September 2026Fake “Dank Drangon” Page Used to Brand Five Local People a “Child Trafficking Ring”Twelve minutes of screenshots, a misspelled page, and the posters that followed.
- March 2025, updated October 2026From Feud to Fabrication: The Malicious Use of False Paedophilia AllegationsThe first time we saw the method, and how it compares with what happened in 2026.
- October 202651 Announcements of a Children’s Club. Not One Start Date.Every announcement of the Lego club, and the DBS guarantee behind it.
- June 2025Jayne’s Baby Bank Discourages Mothers from Contacting Social Services“Last thing they want is the Gestapo turning up on their doorstep”: what she told mothers about referrals.
- June 2025Crossing the Line: How JBB’s Knife Amnesty Ignored UK Law and Safeguarding StandardsAn anonymous knife surrender for teenagers at her shop, with the CCTV turned off.
Check it yourself
Everything we publish links to its source. These are the places to look.
- The whole recordThe Sherlock DossierForty findings, the written answers from official bodies, the known premises, and a timeline of more than 300 dated entries, each with its source.
- Her posts, keptfacebook.jaynesbabybank.co.ukHer Facebook posts from the pages and profiles linked to Jayne’s Baby Bank, including pages that were banned, in one timeline. When a post is deleted, our copy stays.
- Her videos, word for wordsearch.jaynesbabybank.co.ukSearch the transcripts of her videos and posts for any word, and see exactly what was said and when.
- Her photosgallery.jaynesbabybank.co.ukPhotos from the pages and profiles linked to Jayne’s Baby Bank, kept exactly as they were posted.
- The documentsDocument ArchiveLeases, Freedom of Information replies, council papers and letters, to read in full.
You are not alone in asking. Our Facebook group, Jayne’s Baby Bank Exposed, passed a million views within three weeks of being set up in January 2026, and now has more than 10,000 members.
Before you give, to anyone. Search the register of charities, and ask for a charity number if it is not on the shop, the post or the collection page. A community interest company is listed at Companies House, not on the register of charities. If you want to give baby items, these registered baby banks in South Wales are all on the register.
If you are worried about a child’s safety, call Gwent Police on 101, or 999 in an emergency.
Tell us what you know
Much of what is on this site began with a message from a reader: a former volunteer, a landlord, someone who was there. If you know something, tell us through our contact page. We will not name you without your agreement.
Please do not send photographs of children, and please do not contact landlords, agents or property owners about her premises. Leave that to us and to the authorities.
Where it began
On 17 January 2024, this page said, in full:
This website will shortly feature extensive information about Jayne’s Baby Bank & Charity Shop and the manner in which it operates. Please stay tuned for updates.
More than seventy articles later, this is that information. Thank you for staying tuned. Every article, newest first.
Carrie-Anne Ridsdale, also known publicly as Jayne Price, has a standing right of reply. If anything on this site is wrong, send us the document that shows it through our contact page, and we will correct it on the record. Any response is published in full and unedited, and the offer does not expire.
Disclaimer: This site uses public records, social media content and Freedom of Information disclosures. Where conclusions or inferences are drawn, they are based on observable data and are presented for public interest and transparency purposes. Readers are encouraged to verify all claims through primary sources.
…Sherlock