Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal

Analysis

Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in December 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal reported income of £175k and spending of £166k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £233k to £175k (-25%), an average of -6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Buckingham Emergency Food Appeal sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hypha Studios (£175k), The Worshipful Company of Cutlers General Charitable Fund (£175k) and Staffordshire Masonic Charitable Association (£174k).