Foodrise

Registered charity 1155064 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FEEDBACK, GLOBAL FEEDBACK LIMITED

An environmental campaigning charity working for food that is good for the planet and its people. We are sector leaders, highly regarded for our hard-hitting investigative research, innovative campaigns, participatory events, and track record of bringing about changes to policy and business practices through a mix of movement building, campaigns, and piloting alternative food system approaches.

Objects

3 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1) THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING THE PROMOTION OF BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE LAND USE;(2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR REGARDING BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE LAND USE AND THE PROMOTION OF STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE;(3) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES;(B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES;(C) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS. (4) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £200,704 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £805,050 to £604,346. However, the trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £192,919 remain within the stated policy range of £100,000 to £215,000, and the auditor has concluded 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 UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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 08530711

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carina Millstone — Executive Director (source)
• Frank Mechielsen — Leading our work in the Netherlands (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.

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.

• KHAIRA, Manpreet — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
• SOTANDE-PETERS, Adesola — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
• LOBO, Gillian Therese Grace — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
• BRIGGS, Jenny — director, appointed 25/07/2024on trustee list
• PEAKE, Elizabeth Davison — director, appointed 25/07/2024on trustee list
• GOULD, Matthew Thomas — director, appointed 02/02/2023on trustee list
• CHAMBERS, Ruth Mary — director, appointed 07/07/2022on trustee list
• TUSON, Sophie Catherine Field — director, appointed 09/11/2021on 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 ~1.4 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 (75% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adesola Sotande-Peters
• Elizabeth Davison Peake
• Gillian Therese Grace Lobo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jenny Briggs
• Manpreet Khaira
• Matthew Thomas Gould
• Ruth Mary Chambers
• Sophie Tuson

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

Operates in: Belgium · France · Netherlands · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 FFCC LIMITED.

• FFCC LIMITED income £695k
• SUSTAINABLE FOOD TRUST income £1.7m
• FOOD FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• Our Food Trust income £127k
• SUNRISE DIVERSITY income £200k
• THE FOOD ETHICS COUNCIL income £214k

Side by side with its peers

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