SWALE FOODBANK

Registered charity 1190373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

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Latest income
£256k
Latest spending
£190k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £23,621, while total funds carried forward reached £199,138. The trustees report that a sustainability grant enabled staff to move from part-time to full-time working, and the charity secured £130,000 in National Lottery funding for the next five years. The trustees consider 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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Swale Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£256k£190k
31/03/2024£209k£168k
31/03/2023£135k£100k
31/03/2022£64k£83k
31/03/2021£106k£38k

Common questions

Is SWALE FOODBANK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £23,621, while total funds carried forward reached £199,138. The trustees report that a sustainability grant enabled staff to move from part-time to full-time working, and the charity secured £130,000 in National Lottery funding for the next five years. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds SWALE FOODBANK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SWALE FOODBANK as a grant recipient include Fuel Bank Foundation, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SITTINGBOURNE HOLY TRINITY WITH BOBBING.

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund27/02/2025£150kSwale Foodbank

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 EARLSFIELD FOODBANK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SWALE FOODBANK£256k—0unclear—no doubt
EARLSFIELD FOODBANK FY2025£167k—0above—no doubt
GRANTHAM FOODBANK FY2024£279k—0unclear—noted
SADAQAH-FOUNDATION FY2023£129k——unclear—no doubt
TRURO FOODBANK FY2024£200k—0unclear—no doubt
NORTHERN DEVON FOODBANK FY2025£236k—0unclear—no doubt

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