THE PRET FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1050195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRET FOUNDATION, PRET FOUNDATION TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC050501 (OSCR)

The remit of the Foundation is the alleviation of poverty, hunger and homelessness in Pret markets around the world. The Foundation fulfils its remit through activities including surplus food redistribution, targeted grant giving, and shelter/employment programmes.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds held by the Foundation decreased to £871,754 from £1,090,665 in the prior year, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income. The Trustees report that the Foundation maintains a healthy balance sheet through prudent financial management and effective cost control, with unrestricted reserves operating within their stated policy target.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £70,000 to £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

What the charity says about itself (2024)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pret Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Grace Choonarachair
• Alan Corben
• Edward Evans
• Jen Stobart
• Pano Christou
• Shahaz Nanji
• Yoana Antonieva Nenova

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: France · Germany · Hong Kong · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Prept. Foundation.

• Prept. Foundation income £284k
• THE POINT FOUNDATION income £102k
• THE FEED FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• THE INNOCENT FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• THE PURI FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• THE COCO'S FOUNDATION income £207k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.