THE TRUSSELL TRUST

Registered charity 1110522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FOOD BANK · also registered in Scotland as SC044246 (OSCR)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £12.4m for the 18-month period, resulting from the intentional divestment of post-pandemic reserves to support grant-making and anti-poverty work. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves of £13.0m were held at year-end, which falls within the stated policy target range of £12.2m to £15.2m.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05434524
• Trading subsidiary: TRUSSELL TRADING LIMITED Companies House 13310114
• Trading subsidiary: TRUSSELL RETAIL LIMITED Companies House 14870045

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Trussell (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matthew van Duyvenbode — Co-CEO (source)
• Natalie Campbell — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Danni Malone — Chief Programme Officer (source)
• Emma Roberts — Director of Communications and External Affairs (source)
• Helen Barnard — Director of Policy & Research (source)
• Lynda Battarbee — Director of Operations (source)
• Tina Higgs — Director of Finance (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Natalie Denise Campbellchair
• Andrew Mark Reaney
• DUNCAN SHRUBSOLE
• Edward John Matthews
• Emma Kate Galloway
• Rev Beverley Ann Thomas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ross James Maloney
• Sarah Elizabeth Vibert
• Sashareen Gaynor Priscilla Morgan
• Suresh Prabha Ariaratnam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Joseph Gibbs
• Valerie Anne McKie

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

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

Income and spending

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