The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery

Analysis

The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to individuals, sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery reported income of £124k and spending of £123k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £52k to £124k (+138%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Mills Art Theatre Limited (£124k), Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway Supporters Association (£124k) and Prittlewell Priory Museum (£124k).