WHITEFIELD CHARITY SK CORPORATION

Registered charity 1051770 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUP KITCHEN, WHITEFIELD CORPORATION

Established in 1986, The Soup Kitchen is a resource for the homeless, elderly, lonely and vulnerable in London. We provide free nutritious meals, clothing and unprecedented mental health support to nearly 150 people each day in London. We aim to tackle some of the core issues of homelessness in an environment that is welcoming to everyone.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE POOR,HANDICAPPED AND AGED,THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING TO PERSONS DEPENDENT ON DRUGS OR ALCOHOL.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £768,712 and held unrestricted reserves of £287,800 at year-end, which is above its stated policy target of maintaining six months of operating expenses. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CONSTANCE JACKSONchair
• JANET MARIE BAGBY
• Jennifer Mills-Knutsen
• Michael Brown
• Renee Kuo

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PETERBOROUGH SOUP KITCHEN.

• THE PETERBOROUGH SOUP KITCHEN income £37k
• SOUTHPORT SOUP KITCHEN income £44k
• TOOTING COMMUNITY KITCHEN income £123k
• SOUL KITCHEN income £61k
• OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL HEALING MINISTRIES income £52k
• SUNDERLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN LTD income £221k

Side by side with its peers

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