Cardiff Foodbank

Cardiff Foodbank aims to provide a supply of basic food to help clients through short term crisis situations caused by ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage and who are living in the City of Cardiff and its environs.The organisation collects, stores and distributes food to clients who are assessed to be in need by front line professional agencies in the city.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Cardiff

Area of benefit in its governing document: The City of Cardiff and Its Environs

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £601,005 and spent £598,371.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 16%, from £517,720 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £601,005 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £102,000 from 4 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 14 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £624,769.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 10 November 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee

  Cardiff Foodbank - Kits & Kicks Campaign

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• 24 February 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee

  Proposals relevant to Cllr Merry's portfolio

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• 30 January 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Lord Mayor's Announcements

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• 28 November 2024, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Lord Mayor's Announcements

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We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Catherine Emma MayAppointed 28 January 2026
• Catherine SutcliffeAppointed 28 January 2026
• Christopher Brian JohnesAppointed 15 December 2022
• Dr Sarah Elizabeth RogersAppointed 28 January 2026
• Fiona Margaret RobinsonAppointed 15 December 2022
• Gauri Rosebind Taylor-NayarAppointed 15 December 2022
• Karen Lesley BadatAppointed 15 December 2022
• Margaret Louise LynnAppointed 15 December 2022
• Stephen JonesAppointed 28 January 2026

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1139456

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

22 December 2010

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 DECEMBER 2009

Company number

07107789This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.cardiff.foodbank.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth