CITY HARVEST

Registered charity 1163055 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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

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

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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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 HARVEST CITY CHURCH.

• HARVEST CITY CHURCH income £1.7m
• Felix London income £15.9m
• THE HACKNEY FOODBANK income £1.8m
• UKHARVEST LIMITED income £1.1m
• SURPLUS TO SUPPER TRUST CIO income £296k
• REFUGEE COMMUNITY KITCHEN income £493k

Side by side with its peers

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