BREADWINNERS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1166646 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BREADWINNERS

Breadwinners is an ambitious grassroots charity set up in April 2016. Our aim is to support refugees through their first steps into employment, work experience, entrepreneurship, and mentoring whilst providing the best organic artisan bread.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY PROVIDING THOSE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED WITH IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE OPPORTUNITY, EQUIPMENT, MICROFUNDING AND SUPPORT TO ESTABLISH AND GROW THEIR OWN BUSINESS TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS, LEARN NEW SKILLS AND PROGRESS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £112,360 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £180,785. This figure is comfortably above the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining three months of operational costs, which was valued at £90,600 at that date. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/03/2024, 35 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Pret Foundation — “Breadwinners is now working with Pret A Mangerret. and The Pret Foundation’s Rising Stars Programme to support our programmes grads into pla…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% 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: 4.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN LISTERchair
• Anneka de Silva
• Baneta Yelda
• Charlie Rainer
• Christarose Maphosa Miss
• MARIKA CHAPLAIS
• Noreen O'Prey
• Tracey Hamer

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEYOND FOOD FOUNDATION.

• BEYOND FOOD FOUNDATION income £725k
• BREAKING BARRIERS income £3.6m
• BRIDGEND FOODBANK income £253k
• THE BREAD AND BUTTER THING. income £7.8m
• BUILDING BRIDGES FOOD HUB income £37k
• BRIGHTER FUTURE INITIATIVE income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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