THE TRUSSELL TRUST

Registered charity 1110522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q15621299 · Wikipedia · also known as THE FOOD BANK · also registered in Scotland as SC044246 (OSCR)

The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks and together we provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK. www.trusselltrust.org

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (BENEFICIARIES) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

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 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MATTHEWS, Edward John — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• MCKIE, Valerie Anne — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• GALLOWAY, Emma Kate — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• REANEY, Andrew Mark — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• MALONEY, Ross James — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Natalie Denise — director, appointed 25/06/2024on trustee list
• VIBERT, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 30/05/2023on trustee list
• ARIARATNAM, Suresh Prabha — director, appointed 30/05/2023on trustee list
• GIBBS, Thomas Joseph — director, appointed 30/05/2023on trustee list
• MORGAN, Sashareen Gaynor Priscilla — director, appointed 30/05/2023on trustee list
• SHRUBSOLE, Duncan Owen — director, appointed 30/05/2023on trustee list
• THOMAS, Beverley Ann — director, appointed 19/10/2019on trustee list
• LEEPER, Claire Louise — secretary, appointed 29/01/2021

Official officers record.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Backcasting to Achieve Food Resilience in the UK (BAFR-UK) —
• Good Food First - A Dignified Model for Better Nutrition —

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles 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.

Trustpilot: Trussell scores 2.9/5 from 2 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (88,424 likes) · instagram (63K followers)

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).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 22.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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 PONTYPRIDD FOODBANK.

• PONTYPRIDD FOODBANK income £301k
• DUNSTABLE FOODBANK income £150k
• WARWICK DISTRICT FOODBANK income £336k
• CHEADLE & DISTRICT FOODBANK income £64k
• NORWICH FOOD BANK income £577k
• DONCASTER FOODBANK (TRUSSELL TRUST) LTD income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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