PROVIDE A MEAL

Registered charity 1187192 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides support and emergency meals to individuals in financial need, hardship or distress. This is done by providing food parcels or using PAM web and mobile application to connect food vendors, charities, individuals and corporate entities together for providing meals directly to beneficiaries.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF FOOD POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY THE PROVISION OF MEALS TO INDIVIDUALS IN FINANCIAL NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (THE BENEFICIARIES).

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 · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£59k
Latest spending
£68k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure deficit of £8,774 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total net liabilities of £32,898. The trustees have confirmed their willingness to continue to support the charity with further funding if necessary to meet commitments as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“The trustees have confirmed their willingness to continue to support the charity until it can become self sufficient, and will provide further funding, if necessary, so the charity can continue to meet is commitments as they fall due.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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 30/06/2025

  • Volunteers: 2

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

  • Government income: £5,262 — grants £5,262 (1); 17% of the £30,455 total gross income on the same return

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2025 (received 14/05/2026, 14 days after the 30/04/2026 due date); year ending 30/06/2023 (received 07/06/2024, 38 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 19/09/2023, 142 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£59k£68k
30/06/2024£63k£65k
30/06/2023£30k£32k
30/06/2022£29k£59k
31/12/2020£6k£18k

Common questions

Is PROVIDE A MEAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure deficit of £8,774 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total net liabilities of £32,898. The trustees have confirmed their willingness to continue to support the charity with further funding if necessary to meet commitments as they fall due. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY KITCHEN (MANCHESTER) LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
PROVIDE A MEAL£59k—0unclear—noted
COMMUNITY KITCHEN (MANCHESTER) LTD FY2025£114k—0unclear—no doubt
CAN COOK FY2025£1.5m——unclear—no doubt
SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES FY2025£176k—0unclear—no doubt
AMBLE FOODBANK FY2025£30k—0unclear—no doubt
Food Bank Aid FY2025£775k——unclear—no doubt

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