BREADLINE

Registered charity 1060661 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Breadline facilitates and empowers churches and local charities in Eastern Europe to develop and implement a range of projects which have a transformational impact on the poor communities they serve, including community development, protecting children at risk, education, advocacy for the disabled and family welfare.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£357k

Latest spending

£262k

Registered

1997

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £94,634 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income rising to £356,972. Total unrestricted and restricted reserves stood at £189,117, providing a buffer against the stated challenges of rising costs and economic instability in Moldova.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 03303140

The charity’s company — latest Companies House iXBRL filing (balance sheet 31 December 2025)

Equity: £189k
Average employees: 2

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

JOHNSON, Sarita Claire — director, appointed 10/01/2024on trustee list
BURCH, Philip Alexander — director, appointed 04/01/2023on trustee list
FEBEN, Carol Anne — director, appointed 10/02/2018on trustee list
SAMWAYS, Rachel Margaret — director, appointed 04/02/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Carol Febenchair
Claire Johnson
Philip Burch · trustee of 1 other charity
RACHEL SAMWAYS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Moldova

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£357k	£262k
31/12/2024	£210k	£236k
31/12/2023	£244k	£298k
31/12/2022	£451k	£383k
31/12/2021	£224k	£208k

Common questions

Is BREADLINE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £94,634 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income rising to £356,972. Total unrestricted and restricted reserves stood at £189,117, providing a buffer against the stated challenges of rising costs and economic instability in Moldova. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BREADLINE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BREADLINE as a grant recipient include THE STUART HINE TRUST CIO, THE CROSS TRUST, CHILDS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE S M B TRUST, RUISLIP BAPTIST CHURCH.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE STUART HINE TRUST CIO	FY2023	£30k
THE STUART HINE TRUST CIO	FY2024	£25k
THE STUART HINE TRUST CIO	FY2025	£25k	General charitable purposes
THE STUART HINE TRUST CIO	FY2022	£20k
THE CROSS TRUST	FY2023	£10k
CHILDS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£10k
THE CROSS TRUST	FY2022	£5k
THE S M B TRUST	FY2022	£2k
RUISLIP BAPTIST CHURCH	FY2022	£600
RUISLIP BAPTIST CHURCH	FY2021	£500
RUISLIP BAPTIST CHURCH	FY2023	£500	Breadline

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
The Keith Howard Foundation	1	£95k
SODEXO STOP HUNGER FOUNDATION	1	£40k
THE PWC FOUNDATION	1	£14k
G M C TRUST	1	£7k
MILLS AND REEVE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£7k
THE GEORGE AND ESME POLLITZER CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£5k
THE HISCOX FOUNDATION	1	£4k
FORD BRITAIN TRUST	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BREADLINE AFRICA.

BREADLINE AFRICA income £661k
HIS BREAD income £107k
BREADTRUST income £149k
REDBRIDGE FOODBANK income £724k
Resurrection Power And Living Bread Ministries (London) income £438k
BRAYATEE KURDISH COMMUNITY income £152k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BREADLINE	£357k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BREADLINE AFRICA FY2024	£661k	—	no_policy	—	no doubt
HIS BREAD FY2025	£107k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BREADTRUST FY2025	£149k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
REDBRIDGE FOODBANK FY2025	£724k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Resurrection Power And Living Bread Ministries (London) FY2024	£438k	—	below	—	no doubt

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