FareShare Midlands

Registered charity 1146847 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FARESHARE LEICESTER

FareShare Midlands (formerly FareShare Leicester) was formed on 1st July, 2008, as a project of the Diocese of Leicester and a franchise of the national charity FareShare. FareShare takes good quality surplus food from the food industry that is supplied to community organisations for those in need, rather than being disposed of.

Objects

A)THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN ENGLAND BY REDISTRIBUTING SURPLUS PRODUCE (IN PARTICULAR FOOD) TO ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, HEALTH-RELATED OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, AND THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN. B) THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE REDUCTION OF WASTE (IN PARTICULAR FOOD WASTE). C) THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK AND SUPPORT. D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING TRAINING IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR

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

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

Registered contact address: Oadby and Wigston, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that FareShare Midlands achieved an underlying operational profit for the first time since 2020/21, resulting in a total surplus of £763,479 for the year ended 30 June 2025. Unrestricted reserves increased to £553,760, while total reserves rose to £1,504,996. The trustees confirm adequate resources for going concern, noting that the organization continues to adapt to challenging economic conditions and rising operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by The Rowleys Partnership Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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
• Investing charity funds 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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kathryn Roberts — Head of Operations & Food (source)
• Kara Glover — Head of Fundraising (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vincent Craigchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbara Lunnon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charlotte McClelland
• Helen Sisson
• Holly Hughes
• Kulbir Chatrik
• Mike Court
• Rev Bachelard Kaze Yemtsa
• Sabrina Ffrench
• Sophie Lawson

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FARESHARE YORKSHIRE LIMITED.

• FARESHARE YORKSHIRE LIMITED income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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