Shrewsbury Food Hub

Analysis

Shrewsbury Food Hub is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shrewsbury. It was registered in January 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Shrewsbury Food Hub reported income of £308k and spending of £306k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £413k to £308k (-26%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shrewsbury Food Hub sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include West Street Christian Fellowship (£307k), The Parochial Church Council of Wellington All Saints with Eyton (St.catherine's) (£308k) and Camberwell After School Project (£307k).