Felix Charity

Registered charity 1100051 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FARESHARE · also registered in Scotland as SC052672 (OSCR)

Felix brings people together to rescue, repurpose, and share surplus food that would otherwise go to waste, turning an environmental problem into a social opportunity.Together with 16 other independent charities, 18,000 volunteers, and thousands of partners, we are the UK's food rescue network, supporting 1.5 million people across the country.Fuller plates, fuller communities, and fuller lives

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £6.8 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total reserves falling to £14.9 million from £21.7 million the previous year. The trustees note that they strategically drew on reserves to invest in growth and meet rising demand, and that free reserves held were £8.9 million, representing 109% of the estimated required level of £8.2 million. The charity confirms it has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% 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: 16.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dominic Blakemorechair
• Angela Michelle Yotov
• Angela Tangas
• Aron Gelbard
• Ben Salama · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Helen Thorpe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gavin John Darby · trustee of 1 other charity
• JUSTIN DAVID ELLIOTT BYAM SHAW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Elizabeth Byam Shaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Matthew Birch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julian Murray Wakeham
• Karen Betts
• Karin Woodley
• Paul Joseph Drechsler
• Simone Connolly · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy O'Malley

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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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 Felix London.

• Felix London income £15.9m
• EXETER FOOD ACTION income £136k
• FEAST WITH US income £434k
• FOOD REDISTRIBUTION WALES LTD income £938k
• THE FEED FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• FARESHARE YORKSHIRE LIMITED income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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