EXETER FOOD ACTION

Registered charity 1174174 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Saving food and stopping waste. We collect and receive excess food from supermarkets, wholesalers, manufacturers and farms and redistribute to organisations in and around Exeter that feed people.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY: PROVIDING SURPLUS FIT-FOR-PURPOSE PRODUCTS FROM THE FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY TO NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS WORKING WITH VULNERABLE OR ECONOMICALLY-DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITIES OF EXETER AND DEVON; AND CHALLENGING THE CULTURE OF FOOD WASTE

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £22,216 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total receipts increasing to £136,250. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £24,960, which is described as roughly the balance needed to meet the charity's reserves policy target of three months' unrestricted payments.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Exeter Food Action (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Christopher Walshchair
• Andrew Kemp
• Beth Cossey
• Charles Nyeko-Lacek · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Jon Curtis
• IAN DAVID AWCOCK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Willcock
• Susannah Ford

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• EXETER FOOD BANK income £173k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k
• BUCKINGHAM EMERGENCY FOOD APPEAL income £175k
• SHERBORNE FOOD BANK income £53k
• EXETER VINEYARD CHURCH income £138k
• THE COUNTRY FOOD TRUST income £649k

Side by side with its peers

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