FOODCYCLE

Registered charity 1134423 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5465270 · Wikipedia

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

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF GOOD NUTRITION, GOOD HEALTH AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM SOCIAL, ECONOMIC OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS;2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RECLAMATION OF WASTE FOOD AND PREPARING HEALTHY FOOD;3 THE PROMOTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF HUMAN HEALTH THROUGH PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ADVICE IN RELATION TO HEALTHY EATING AND NUTRITION;4 THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF REDUCTION OF FOOD WASTE, USE OF RECYCLED FOOD PRODUCTS AND THE USE OF SURPLUS FOOD;5 SUCH OTHER OBJECTS, AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE.

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.

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Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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 07101349 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: FOODCYCLE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 08963678 · Financial health read from its filings

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 FULL CIRCLE FOOD PROJECT.

• FULL CIRCLE FOOD PROJECT income £314k
• FOODWISE (TLC) LIMITED income £85k
• BISHOP'S CASTLE COMMUNITY FOODBANK income £39k
• TOOTING COMMUNITY KITCHEN income £123k
• The Cycle (INGO) income £441k
• GILLINGHAM FOODBANK income £74k

Side by side with its peers

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