Towcester Foodbank

Analysis

Towcester Foodbank is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Towcester. It was registered in June 2014, 12 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 September 2025, Towcester Foodbank reported income of £42k and spending of £50k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £12k to £42k (+235%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 187%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Towcester Foodbank sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Save the Orphan Please - International (£42k), Church of Christ Milton Keynes (£42k) and Lucy Griffiths Foundation Ltd (£42k).