MADE IN HACKNEY

Registered charity 1176690 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cookery, nutrition and food growing classes to advance public health and inspire more environmentally sustainable food choices. Charity supports a variety of groups in need such as young carers, long term unemployed, low income families and individuals, pensioners, vulnerable young people, people with health challenges, people with learning difficulties and minority cultural/ethnic groups.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING THE CONSUMPTION OF HEALTHIER DIETS.

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £27,911 for the year, with total income of £584,258 and total expenditure of £612,169. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £437,909 exceed the stated policy target of £277,072, and they consider there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Made In Hackney (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).

• Mr Organic — “The £15,000 raised by our supporters was matched by our generous funders, Mr Organic and Support+Feed — together making the full target poss…” (source page)
• Support+Feed — “The £15,000 raised by our supporters was matched by our generous funders, Mr Organic and Support+Feed — together making the full target poss…” (source page)
• National Lottery — “Thank You to the National Lottery: Supporting Cook & Connect” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 12.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Preedychair
• Ayesha Oumeira Tegally
• Beth Leonie Swords
• Edward Felix Mendez
• Emily Gussin
• James Henry Mott
• Jenny Yi-Ping Chu
• Makar Tsurkan
• Pranay Manocha
• Yasmin Moore

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ACTIVITEENS.

• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• EAT CLUB income £156k
• GIVE. HELP. SHARE. income £243k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• THE HACKNEY FOODBANK income £1.6m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k

Side by side with its peers

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