THE COUNTRY FOOD TRUST

Registered charity 1162699 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC051118 (OSCR)

Feeding those in need

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1. TO ALLEVIATE FOOD POVERTY BY PROVIDING FREE MEALS TO THOSE IN NEED2. TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £52,348 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £649,330 and total expenditure of £596,982. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £134,564, which the trustees consider maintains the policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 Wenn Townsend Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 — The Country Food Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 7.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rt Hon Sir Brandon Kenneth Lewischair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW STONE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Amanda Skinner
• Arthur Stephen Gillespie
• Mark French
• Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOOD AND COMMUNITY TRUST.

• FOOD AND COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k
• JUNCTION COMMUNITY TRUST income £982k
• AFFORDABLE FOOD STOKE income £147k
• BLACKBURN FOODBANK income £959k
• CHEADLE & DISTRICT FOODBANK income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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