Hangleton and West Blatchington Food Bank

Analysis

Hangleton and West Blatchington Food Bank is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in February 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Hangleton and West Blatchington Food Bank reported income of £37k and spending of £38k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £78k to £37k (-52%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Hangleton and West Blatchington Food Bank sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chosen High Wycombe (£37k), St John's Housing Trust (£37k) and 1st Wroughton Scout Group (£37k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.