INTERNATIONAL FOOD INFORMATION SERVICE (IFIS PUBLISHING)

Registered charity 1068176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

IFIS is the independent global provider of quality international scientific information about the science of food and drink. www.IFIS.org provides a guide to finding and searching for food science information. The bibliographic database FSTA-Food Science and Technology Abstracts (www.fsta.com) is the leading database of what has been published worldwide on food science.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF FOOD SCIENCE, FOOD TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN NUTRITION.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £426,427, significantly impacted by a one-off planning gain payment of £540,305 and reduced expenditure. Per the trustees' report, the accumulated unrestricted fund remains negative at (£503,124) due to a large pension scheme deficit, although liquidity is described as favourable with over £3.2 million in investments and cash balances.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Collards. 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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Katy Askew — Managing Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Dennischair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colleen Thompson Shannon
• Ian Noble
• Michael John Griffiths
• Predrag Pavlicic
• WEIBIAO ZHOU

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QUADRAM INSTITUTE BIOSCIENCE.

• QUADRAM INSTITUTE BIOSCIENCE income £20.4m
• INSTITUTE OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY income £1.1m
• INSTITUTE FOR FOOD, BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR income £269k
• THE FISHERIES SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES income £607k
• THE FOOD AND DRINK TRAINING AND EDUCATION COUNCIL LIMITED income £1.5m
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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