EAT CLUB

Registered charity 1179229 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Good food, prepared from scratch and eaten together communally can help young people lead happier, healthier lives.We offer bespoke cooking courses that are designed to improve the relationship young people have with food and address the underlying barriers to healthy eating and physical and mental wellbeing. Courses are delivered in partnership with various organisations in and around London.

Objects

TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THOSE PEOPLE WITH POORER LIFE CHANCES, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROMOTING HEALTHY EATING AND AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF GOOD NUTRITIONTHE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN COOKING SKILLS, FOOD PREPARATION AND HEALTHY EATING

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£156k
Latest spending
£156k
Registered
2018
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £19,005, which is below the charity's stated policy target of holding between 3 and 6 months of operating costs. The charity reported a net income of £175 for the year, with total incoming resources of £156,277 and total expenditure of £156,102.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months of operating costs (held: £19k)
“The Charity aims to hold between 3 and 6 months operating costs in unrestricted reserves, this is reviewed regularly.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £13,826 — contracts £9,826 (1), grants £4,000 (1); 9% of the £156,277 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £14,860 — contracts £14,860 (1); 9% of the £172,018 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £12,200 — grants £12,200 (2); 8% of the £146,153 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£156k£156k
31/08/2024£172k£153k
31/08/2023£146k£160k
30/06/2022£82k£70k
30/06/2021£50k£35k

Common questions

Is EAT CLUB financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £19,005, which is below the charity's stated policy target of holding between 3 and 6 months of operating costs. The charity reported a net income of £175 for the year, with total incoming resources of £156,277 and total expenditure of £156,102. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds EAT CLUB?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EAT CLUB as a grant recipient include THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUST, YOUNG CAMDEN FOUNDATION, THE SHAFTESBURY HOMES AND ARETHUSA, CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATION, CAMDEN GIVING.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUSTFY2026£60kMount Fund - Community Youth Services
YOUNG CAMDEN FOUNDATIONFY2023£17k
THE SHAFTESBURY HOMES AND ARETHUSAFY2025£10k
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2021£8kInvesting in Young People
CAMDEN GIVINGFY2022£8kFuture Changemakers Fund
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2021£5kInvesting in young people
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2022£5kConfronting social isolation
EAST END COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2023£5kPartnership in action - Eat Club in Tower Hamlets
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2023£3kIslington Giving Young Grant Makers Grants
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUSTFY2025£3kMount Fund - Community Youth Services
YOUNG CAMDEN FOUNDATIONFY2022Unverified read£3kGrants to institutions
ST GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS AND WILLIAM SHELTON EDUCATIONAL CHARITYFY2025£2kGrant via Young Westminster Foundation Brighter Futures Fund
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2023£2kIslington Council’s Community Chest Grants
ST GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS AND WILLIAM SHELTON EDUCATIONAL CHARITYFY2022£2kStrategic Grant (Young Westminster Foundation)
THE KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA FOUNDATIONFY2022£2kGrenfell Community Development Fund
EAST END COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2026£500Food and nutrition workshops for children and young people

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).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Camden Giving09/07/2024£2kEat Club Camden Young Chefs
St Giles & St George08/12/2022£2kGrant to Eat Club
The National Lottery Community Fund19/08/2022£10kEat Club Young Leaders 2022-23
Camden Giving11/08/2021£8kEat Club
The National Lottery Community Fund29/04/2021£10kEat Club Young Leaders
UK government03/08/2020£9kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund17/10/2019£9kCooking in Hackney
The National Lottery Community Fund04/05/2018£8kEat Club @ New Horizons

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 EATING BETTER.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EAT CLUB£156k—0unclear—no doubt
EATING BETTER FY2025£450k—0within—no doubt
THE FRIENDLY FOOD CLUB FY2026£255k—0unclear—no doubt
MADE IN HACKNEY FY2025£584k—0unclear—no doubt
GOOD FOOD MATTERS FY2025£151k—0below—no doubt
PARENT CLUB FY2025£236k—0unclear—no doubt

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