THE HACKNEY FOODBANK

Registered charity 1149896 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HACKNEY FOODBANK

The emergency provision of non-perishable food goods and signposting to those in need in the London Borough of Hackney and the surrounding areas.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves are £160,896, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate 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 audited by none. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07877042

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hackney Foodbank (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.

• BENITEZ, Miriam Carrion — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• HOPKINS, Anneliese Frances — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• MAHONEY, Thomas Lee — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• HABIB, Fatima Mohamed — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• FORREST, Sarah Victoria — director, appointed 15/07/2024on trustee list
• PRZYBYSZEWSKA-DEMUREN, Kamila Dagny — director, appointed 26/01/2024on trustee list
• WILKINSON, Katharine Sarah — director, appointed 19/01/2023on trustee list
• PILE, Christopher David — director, appointed 19/01/2023on trustee list
• BETHEL, Tim — director, appointed 19/01/2023on trustee list
• BOISSON, Mark — director, appointed 07/04/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (50% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fatima Habibchair
• Annelies Frances Hopkins
• Christopher David Pile
• Fiona Rosemary Anderson
• Kamila Dagny Przybyszewska-Demuren
• MARK BOISSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Miriam Carrion Benitez
• Sarah Forrest
• Thomas Lee Mahoney
• Tim Bethel
• dr Katharine Sarah Wilkinson

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HACKNEY CITY FARM LIMITED.

• HACKNEY CITY FARM LIMITED income £507k
• THE BOW FOODBANK LIMITED income £782k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY income £1.2m
• SOUTH HACKNEY PAROCHIAL CHARITY income £151k
• WEYMOUTH FOODBANK income £104k
• CHIPPING BARNET FOODBANK income £349k

Side by side with its peers

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