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.

Causes: Education/training · 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 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.

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
• Harry Graham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Sanger
• MARIKA CHAPLAIS
• Noreen O'Prey
• Tracey Hamer

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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