The Wokingham Foodbank

Analysis

The Wokingham Foodbank is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wokingham. It was registered in August 2016, 10 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 other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, The Wokingham Foodbank reported income of £337k and spending of £329k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £171k to £337k (+97%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 148%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Wokingham Foodbank sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Platform 67 (£337k), The Need Project Central Bedfordshire (£337k) and Kollel Rabinow (Divre Shir) Foundation (£337k).