Brecon Food Bank

Analysis

Brecon Food Bank is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Powys. It was registered in May 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Brecon Food Bank reported income of £81k and spending of £85k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £58k to £81k (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Brecon Food Bank sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The League of Friends of the Aldeburgh and District Community Hospital (£81k), Inspired Neighbourhoods Charitable Trust (£81k) and The Eleanor Peel Chair of Geriatrics (£81k).