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THE POWER OF NUTRITION

Registered charity 1160373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAFIN, CATALYTIC FINANCING FACILITY FOR NUTRITION

THE POWER OF NUTRITION IS WORKING TO TRANSFORM CHILDREN?S NUTRITION OUTCOMES, SAVE LIVES AND PROTECT CHILDREN BY: (1) UNLOCKING FINANCING FOR NUTRITION FROM NEW AND NON-TRADITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES; AND (2) MAKING CHARITABLE INVESTMENTS (GRANTS) TO SCALE UP QUALITY, HIGH-IMPACT CHILD AND MATERNAL NUTRITION PROGRAMMES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND ASIA.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£6.7m
Latest spending
£7.1m
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is winding down and will close in 2027, with financial statements prepared on a non-going concern basis. Unrestricted reserves stood at USD 2.3 million, which is above the stated policy target of USD 1.8 million, though the charity faces significant funding challenges and has reduced its staff size.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 12 months average operating expenditure (held: £2.9m)
“The Trustees have agreed that it would be desirable for the charity to target unrestricted reserves which are sufficient to cover 12 months average operating expenditure; this equates to USD 1.8 million in 2025.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)
“the accounts have been prepared on a basis other than as a going concern” — page 10
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£6.7m
Total spending
£7.1m
Cost of raising funds
£1.3m
Reserves (reported)
£1.4m
Employees
20

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 20.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Benin · Burkina Faso · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · India · Indonesia · Ivory Coast · Lesotho · Liberia · Madagascar · Malawi

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£6.7m£7.1m
31/12/2023£10.8m£5.1m
31/12/2022£3.1m£4.7m
31/12/2021£9.1m£25.2m
31/12/2020£11.3m£25.3m

Common questions

Is THE POWER OF NUTRITION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is winding down and will close in 2027, with financial statements prepared on a non-going concern basis. Unrestricted reserves stood at USD 2.3 million, which is above the stated policy target of USD 1.8 million, though the charity faces significant funding challenges and has reduced its staff size. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Who funds THE POWER OF NUTRITION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE POWER OF NUTRITION as a grant recipient include LSEG Foundation, UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
LSEG FoundationFY2022£20k
UBS UK Donor-Advised FoundationFY2021£0

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE REED FOUNDATION1—
Brian Mercer Trust1£350k
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION1£330k
THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST1£295k
The Leathersellers' Foundation1£200k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION1£147k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION1£135k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST1£113k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Prept. Foundation.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE POWER OF NUTRITION£6.7m——unclear—not going concern
Prept. Foundation FY2025£284k—0unclear—no doubt
POWER TO LIVE FOUNDATION FY2025£111k—0unclear—no doubt
POWER FOR THE PEOPLE FY2024£233k£32,8340unclear—no doubt
POWER2 LTD FY2025£2.4m—2unclear—no doubt
THE POINT FOUNDATION FY2025£102k—0unclear—no doubt

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