FARESHARE YORKSHIRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1075477 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FARESHARE SOUTH YORKSHIRE, RESTORE (SY) LIMITED

FareShare Yorkshire is a charity which redistributes surplus food donated by the food industry, which would otherwise go to waste. This food is received by charities and organisations, we call Community Food Members (CFMs) who provide food and meals for vulnerable people. We also provide Employability Programmes to support individuals on a path to employment.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POOR PERSONS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS BY:(A) THE COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD; AND(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF SUCH PERSONS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE YORKSHIRE

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a net surplus of £50,276 for the year ended 31 March 2025, comprising an unrestricted deficit of £83,432 and a restricted surplus of £133,708. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves were £86,496, representing only 16% of the targeted level equivalent to six months of key expenditure costs. The organisation acknowledges it is still working towards meeting its reserves target amid inflationary pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kingswood Allotts Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jonathan Williams — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Air Partner — “Air Partner have made a wonderful monetary donation to FareShare Yorkshire to support our work this Christmas and into 2022.” (source page)
• AABvie Foundation — “Supported classes for charities in FullCrumb Kitchen in 2026” (source page)
• Abbey House Settlement — “The Trust supported us twice due to our increased costs of operation in Leeds.” (source page)
• ABP — “Made a generous contribution to our 2025 Christmas Campaign” (source page)
• AESSEAL — “Match-funded donations to our Christmas Appeal in 2024.” (source page)
• AF Blakemore — “AF Blakemore has donated small grants towards our PPE expenses for the last 5 years.” (source page)
• Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation — “Enabled the resumption of our employability programme post-pandemic and funded the installation of both our pop-up kitchen and two badly-nee…” (source page)
• Albert Hunt Trust — “The Trustees donated towards our creation of the FullCrumb Kitchen, enabling groups and individuals to learn to use food to its full potenti…” (source page)
• Arnold Clark — “We are grateful to Arnold Clark for their generous support in 2025, helping us cover fuel costs through their donation.” (source page)
• ASDA Foundation — “Asda funded a mezzanine floor to expand our office space in Barnsley as well as extensions to chiller, freezer and racking capacity.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Louise HOBBSchair
• Cassandra Macdonald
• Clare Evans
• DAVID SWINDEN
• Jonny Longden
• Michael Willmetts
• Molly Charles
• Rachel Mcelroy
• Sarah Sunderland
• Scott Johnston
• Stephen Stothart

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 FareShare Midlands.

• FareShare Midlands income £4.4m
• SHARE WOKINGHAM income £46k
• COMMUNITY FIRST YORKSHIRE LTD income £1.0m
• HAMBLETON FOODSHARE income £112k
• FARESHARE NORTH EAST income £723k
• Foodshare income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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