CITY HARVEST

Registered charity 1163055 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q65082667 · Wikipedia

City Harvest helps put surplus food to good use in a sustainable way, by distributing to organisations that feed the hungry in London

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ALL PURPOSES WHICH ARE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF EVERY PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, INCLUDING:- THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY;- THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT;- THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY CHARITIES, NGOS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS;- THE PROVISION OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO WAR VETERANS TO SUPPORT THEIR RE-SETTLEMENT INTO CIVILIAN LIFE,IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY FACILITATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS FOOD AND DONATIONS OF FOOD FROM RESTAURANTS, MANUFACTURERS AND RETAILERS TO THOSE EXPERIENCING FOOD 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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £933k for the year, with total expenditure increasing by 30% to £5.2m against income of £4.3m. Net assets decreased to £3.9m, and the trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with sufficient resources 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 Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints handling
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 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 (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: 8.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Freeston OBEchair
• Bernadette GILBERT
• Christopher Ralph
• Duncan Everett
• Emma Gerald
• PATRICK STREET BA, JD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shaun Browne
• Stephen Winningham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Todd Brooks Benjamin

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• UKHARVEST LIMITED income £1.1m
• WORLD HARVEST (UK) income £686k
• WATERHARVEST income £358k
• STEPNEY CITY FARM income £395k
• Harvest Alliance UK income £30k
• HARVESTERS INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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