Burgess Hill Community Food Bank

Analysis

Burgess Hill Community Food Bank is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Burgess Hill. It was registered in October 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Burgess Hill Community Food Bank reported income of £47k and spending of £58k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £27k to £47k (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Burgess Hill Community Food Bank sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The West Yorkshire Police Benevolent and Loans Fund (£47k), The Nagajuna Trust (£47k) and Tasaaga Primary School Supporters UK (£47k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.