MEALS & MORE

Registered charity 1179092 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Meals & More missionTo help alleviate holiday hunger and create happier, healthier children through community clubs that provide tasty, nutritious food and enriching educational activities in a supportive environment, boosting health, self-belief and raising life aspirationsWhat Meals & More was set up to achieveTo create a movement to end Holiday Hunger by collaborative partnerships t

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £66,222 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £346,911. The trustees confirm that these reserve levels remain appropriate given the significant donated services received and the predictable nature of grant payments, with no solvency risk identified.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Meals & More (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 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 (100% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD JAMES COOPERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Nicholas Martin
• Erin Roy
• Joanne Warner
• Nicola Charlotte Jane Sampson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel John Hunt
• Peter Statham
• Shannan Horner
• Thomas Mariani

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 CITY CATERING SOUTHAMPTON.

• CITY CATERING SOUTHAMPTON income £5.6m
• CHRISTADELPHIAN MEAL A DAY FUND income £795k
• FEAST WITH US income £434k
• MAGIC BREAKFAST income £10.4m
• CHARITY RIGHT income £3.0m
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k

Side by side with its peers

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