THE FOOD ETHICS COUNCIL

Registered charity 1101885 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Food Ethics Council brings people to the table to think deeply about, and to navigate ways through, critical ethical challenges in the food system. It does a mix of convening, research and advocacy across a range of food and farming issues, from GM crops to food poverty.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ISSUES OF ETHICS, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES, POLITICS, SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY, AS THEY RELATE TO FOOD AND AGRICULTURE.2) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH IN ANY OF THE ABOVE FIELDS OF EDUCATION AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £108,018 for the year, with unrestricted general reserves increasing significantly to £121,885. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The organization is funded by a mixture of grant funding, consultancy, and donations, with no stated reserves policy target being breached.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Elta Smithchair
• Albert Tucker
• Chloe Donovan
• Dr Julian Baggini · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Pam Davis
• Mx Lucy Aphramor
• Ralph Early

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOOD FOUNDATION.

• FOOD FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• SUSTAINABLE FOOD TRUST income £1.7m
• HALAL FOOD FOUNDATION LTD income £1.7m
• GIVE. HELP. SHARE. income £243k
• Foodrise income £1.4m
• FOOD MATTERS FOUNDATION income £303k

Side by side with its peers

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