SCHOOL FOOD MATTERS

Registered charity 1134094 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

School Food Matters exists to teach children about food and to improve children's access to healthy, sustainable food during their time at school. We provide fully-funded food education programmes to schools. Our experience delivering these programmes informs and strengthens our campaigns, bringing the voices of children, parents and teachers to government policy.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased to £1,547,744 from £1,217,527 in the prior year, while expenditure rose to £1,521,940 from £1,188,195. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £174,110, with liquid unrestricted reserves of £165,592, which the trustees deem sufficient to meet current and estimated future liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Collards Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — School Food Matters (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Katrina Bowleschair
• Alayna Francis
• BEN REYNOLDS
• Clare Pettinger
• Jared Brading
• MAX GASTON BEAZLEY
• Mecca Ibrahim
• Ossie Gray
• Paul Smith

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

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 FOOD MATTERS FOUNDATION.

• FOOD MATTERS FOUNDATION income £303k
• GOOD FOOD MATTERS income £151k
• EDUCATION MATTERS income £1.7m
• KIDS MATTER income £892k
• Population Matters income £1.7m
• ALMA MATER EDUCATION income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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