FOODCYCLE

Registered charity 1134423 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

FoodCycle provides a delicious communal three course meal for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation using surplus food

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £613,172, which is above the minimum requirement of £365,788, and cash cover is equivalent to 4.4 months of forecast expenditure. The Trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07101349
• Trading subsidiary: FOODCYCLE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 08963678

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

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.

• PATEL, Vibhuti Jitendra — director, appointed 28/04/2025on trustee list
• DONALD, Clare Susan — director, appointed 28/04/2025on trustee list
• SCRIMSHAW, William — director, appointed 28/04/2025on trustee list
• JENNINGS, Mary — director, appointed 29/01/2024on trustee list
• O'CONNELL, Samantha — director, appointed 17/11/2023on trustee list
• LE GRYS, Frances — director, appointed 23/01/2023not on trustee list
• BUSHBY, Matthew — director, appointed 17/10/2022on trustee list
• GUPTA, Kalyani — director, appointed 19/07/2021on trustee list
• WEST, David John Mcbean — director, appointed 03/04/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% 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: 13.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Susan Donald
• David John Mcbean West
• Frances Le Grys · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kalyani Gupta
• Mary Jennings
• Matthew Bushby
• Samantha OConnell
• Vibhuti Jitendra Patel
• William Scrimshaw

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

Operates in: 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 TOOTING COMMUNITY KITCHEN.

• TOOTING COMMUNITY KITCHEN income £123k
• FARESHARE YORKSHIRE LIMITED income £1.3m
• SURPLUS TO SUPPER TRUST CIO income £296k
• FOOD REDISTRIBUTION WALES LTD income £938k
• REFUGEE COMMUNITY KITCHEN income £493k
• THE FEED FOUNDATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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