COMMUNITY INITIATIVES SOUTH WEST LIMITED

Registered charity 1125905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY INITIATIVES SOUTH WEST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

The charity's mission is to combat food waste and thereby reduce food poverty by supporting communities and groups (its network members) which work with people who have:Low or no income, poor access to affordable nutritious food and a lack of knowledge or skills or equipment to ensure food is safe and prepared properly.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:1) THE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD TO CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS;2) ENCOURAGING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK; AND3) PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR."THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR" MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.B) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 25 BY THE PROVISION OF WORK-BASED TRAINING WHICH DEVELOPS THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS...

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £502,982 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets to £541,506. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves fell to £349,676, which is below the stated policy target of three months' expenditure (£561,917). The trustees confirm that adequate resources exist to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 06130395

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — FareShare South West (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lucy Bearn — CEO (source)
• Josie Forsyth — Deputy CEO (source)
• Andy Street — Chair of Trustees (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).

• HL Foundation — “We are honoured to support FareShare South West through the HL Foundation. This partnership is not just a corporate initiative – it’s a hear…” (source page)

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.

• COX, Daniel Keith — director, appointed 07/07/2025on trustee list
• LAWRENCE, Sophie — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• BURDEN, Claire Lucy — director, appointed 25/05/2023on trustee list
• EAVES, Bethany Rhian — director, appointed 25/05/2023on trustee list
• HOGG, Tristan Richard Edward — director, appointed 25/02/2021on trustee list
• INGLEBY, Joanne — director, appointed 25/02/2021on trustee list
• ACKLAND, Claire Barbara — director, appointed 22/04/2016on trustee list
• STREET, Andrew — director, appointed 27/02/2007on trustee list
• JOHN, Alan Richard — secretary, appointed 27/02/2007

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW STREET · trustee of 11 other charities
• Claire Barbara Ackland
• Daniel Keith Cox · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanne Ingleby
• Sophie Lawrence
• Tristan Hogg

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

Operates in: Ireland · Throughout England · United States

Income and spending

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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 LIBRARIES UNLIMITED SOUTH WEST.

• LIBRARIES UNLIMITED SOUTH WEST income £9.4m
• SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £205k
• COMMUNITY FOOD ENTERPRISE LIMITED income £99k
• THE WEST END COMMUNITY TRUST income £45k
• SOUTH WEST COMMUNITY CHAPLAINCY LIMITED income £189k
• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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