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The Ifakara Bakery Project

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1114531BirminghamHealth and saving lives
Income£73k2025-12-31
Spending£73ksame year
Spent / received118%5-year average
Size in its cause58th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2006Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Ifakara Bakery Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in June 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Ifakara Bakery Project reported income of £73k and spending of £73k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £34k to £73k (+118%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Ifakara Bakery Project sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Huge Partnership (£73k), The Blackwood Engineering Trust (£74k) and Mangreen Trust (£73k).

Income and spending

£0£24k£48k£72k£96k2021 Income: £33,7322021 Spending: £35,39820212022 Income: £40,5932022 Spending: £26,99920222023 Income: £30,0392023 Spending: £42,79220232024 Income: £55,7832024 Spending: £95,85620242025 Income: £73,4602025 Spending: £73,4362025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The preservation and protection of health particularly but not exclusively by providing, or assisting in the provision of free bread to the community of Ifakara in Tanzania. The relief of financial hardship and advancement of education in Ifakara by supporting young people and such projects as the trustees determine.

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