Southampton Sunday Lunch Project

Analysis

Southampton Sunday Lunch Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in August 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Southampton Sunday Lunch Project reported income of £18k and spending of £12k, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £6,534 to £18k (+182%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Southampton Sunday Lunch Project sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charity of Fanny Enid Latham Horsford (£18k), Fountain Life Foundation (£18k) and International Project Aid UK CIO (£18k).