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Exeter Food Action

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1174174ExeterDisability
Income£136k2025-08-31
Spending£114ksame year
Spent / received92%5-year average
Size in its cause71st pctDisability
Registered2017CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

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

In the financial year ending August 2025, Exeter Food Action reported income of £136k and spending of £114k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £63k to £136k (+116%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 117%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Exeter Food Action sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orpington and Bromley Gateway Club (£136k), Milton Community Centre and Recreation Grounds (£136k) and Social Moments Enterprise (£136k).

Income and spending

£0£34k£68k£102k£136k2021 Income: £62,9452021 Spending: £57,47320212022 Income: £62,2802022 Spending: £62,92420222023 Income: £135,3262023 Spending: £133,14920232024 Income: £103,1332024 Spending: £92,55820242025 Income: £136,2502025 Spending: £113,6342025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Saving food and stopping waste. We collect and receive excess food from supermarkets, wholesalers, manufacturers and farms and redistribute to organisations in and around Exeter that feed people.

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