SURPLUS TO SUPPER TRUST CIO

Registered charity 1189230 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Surplus to Supper is a charity working locally, with a mission statement to bridge the gap between food waste and food poverty. We take surplus food from across the food industry and provide it to local front-line charities and community groups and therefore provide relief to people who are in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship and social circumstances.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE IN SURREY AND LONDON WHO ARE IN NEED, BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF SURPLUS FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIAL ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Spelthorne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £136,409 to £156,417, while restricted reserves were fully expended, resulting in a net decrease in total funds. The charity reported a net expenditure of £7,983 for the year, with total income of £296,410 against total expenditure of £304,393. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding 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 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
• Investing charity funds 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)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW OSBORNEchair
• Christopher Marke
• Marie Bridget O'Loughlin
• Markku Henrik Koppinen
• Monica Fleischer Jones
• Simon Ward Morden
• Thomas Peter Mountford

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOMEWHERE TO GO LIMITED.

• SOMEWHERE TO GO LIMITED income £266k
• SUNDERLAND COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN LTD income £221k
• CAN COOK income £1.5m
• SUTTON COMMUNITY WORKS income £423k
• SUSTAINABLE FOOD TRUST income £1.7m
• BEYOND LIMITS income £193k

Side by side with its peers

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