ISLINGTON North’s independent MP Jeremy Corbyn has got to decide how to redistribute more than £100,000 in donations to his campaign that was not spent during the run-up to the general election.

Election expenses receipts unearthed by the Tribune at the Town Hall this week reveal that more than £123,000 was donated to Mr ­Corbyn’s campaign from more than 3,500 individuals.

Election rules cap each candidate’s campaign spending at £16,825, meaning that the Corbyn coffers were overflowing with unusable cash.

The documents give details of the individual donors and also how expenses were racked up on coffee runs and chocolate crepes.

Donors were told that “all unused money would go toward community projects and ­campaigns”, including “people’s assemblies” which Mr Corbyn described as a “shared, ­democratic space for all local residents in Islington North to discuss the issues affecting our community”.

The Tribune understands the funds are being held by Community Unity Ltd and will be awarded to community projects yet to be decided on.

Exactly how and where the money will be distributed remains unclear, with formalised structures for the allocation of these funds yet to be agreed.

Mr Corbyn told the Tribune: “This was a grassroots campaign, and I want to reiterate my sincere thanks to every single person who made our victory possible.

“From small donations to mass leafletting sessions, our campaign was run and won by people. We proved that together, we achieved more than we can ever do alone.”

The six-week election campaign in Islington North saw veteran MP Mr Corbyn run as an independent, after being banned from standing for the party he had represented for 40 years.

In a tense and dramatic race to the finish, he claimed victory in the early hours of the morning at the count in the Islington Tennis Centre. Labour’s candidate Praful Nargund lost out by more than 7,000 votes.

Mr Corbyn had been tipped to lose by political analysts who believed he would not be able to compete without the party machine behind him.

Raising these funds proved, however, to be no obstacle for Mr Corbyn as donors happily offered up cash to help the cause.

The Tribune understands that around 3,500 people donated to the campaign. Just over 250 of these donated more than £50. Only donors sending more than £50 are named in the election expense documents, publicly available at Islington Town Hall.

The largest single donation came from the RMT union — which donated £10,000 on June 10. The expense documents show where each penny of the total £16,476 used during the campaign was spent.

For example, £3,000 was directed into training and organising volunteers, more than £6,700 spent on posters, letters and leaflets, and a last-minute Croydon Costco run for Nescafe sachets, madeleines, and chocolate crepes accounted for £88 of the total spend.

The limits are tight, meaning that candidates are careful to only declare the cost of materials that were distributed. Mr Corbyn’s “Literature Team” deemed round one of printed letters too large and inaccessible, according to the documents, meaning 15,000 went unused.

Evidence of the fact that they had indeed not been used was provided by way of a photo of Mr Corbyn’s election agent, Sarah Doyle, standing in the Corbyn Campaign Office on Monday July 8 surrounded by tens of boxes of the undistributed letters.

Meanwhile, rival Labour candidate Mr Nargund spent £14,447 on his bid to win against the long-serving MP in Islington North.

His campaign was primarily funded with a donation of nearly £13,000 from the London Labour Party. His agent Alexander Gardiner’s contribution to the campaign was £6.99 worth of stickers.