City Harvest

Analysis

City Harvest is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 2015, 11 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. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 08986929). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, City Harvest reported income of £4.3m and spending of £5.2m, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £5.3m to £4.3m (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, City Harvest sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include International Road Assessment Programme (£4.3m), British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association (Blesma) (£4.3m) and Mancroft Advice Project (Map) (£4.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 50%, donations and legacies 46% and investments 3.1%. Charitable activities took 93% of spending and raising funds 7.3%. Reserves of £114k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 69 people.