Washington Community Food Project

Analysis

Washington Community Food Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tyne and Wear. It was registered in March 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, 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 provides advocacy/advice/information and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Washington Community Food Project reported income of £96k and spending of £106k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £76k to £96k (+27%), an average of +6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Washington Community Food Project sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (£96k), Iraqi Welfare Association (£96k) and Buxton Mountain Rescue Team (£96k).

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.