CARDIFF FOODBANK

Registered charity 1139456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cardiff Foodbank aims to provide a supply of basic food to help clients through short term crisis situations caused by ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage and who are living in the City of Cardiff and its environs.The organisation collects, stores and distributes food to clients who are assessed to be in need by front line professional agencies in the city.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an unrestricted deficit of £30,944 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £98,918, while total unrestricted reserves including designated funds were £736,977. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Emma May
• Catherine Sutcliffe
• Christopher Brian Johnes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Sarah Elizabeth Rogers
• Fiona Margaret Robinson
• Gauri Rosebind Taylor-Nayar
• Karen Lesley Badat
• Margaret Louise Lynn
• Stephen Jones · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cardiff

Income and spending

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Known funders

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